REPUBLIC ACTS FOR TEACHERS (Teaching Prof)

REPUBLIC ACT No. 137

-Board of Textbooks. It provided for all public schools to use only those books approved by the board
for a period of six years from the date of their adoption.

REPUBLIC ACT No. 1425

-The inclusion of a course on the life, works and writings- especially the Noli Me Tangere and El
Filibusterismo of Dr. Jose Rizal in the curricula of all public and private schools.

REPUBLIC ACT No. 4670

-The Magna Carta for Public School Teachers.

REPUBLIC ACT 1079

-Commonwealth Act No.117

-Civil Service Eligibility shall be permanent and shall be valid throughout a person’s lifetime.

REPUBLIC ACT No. 6728

-The Act Providing Government Assistance to Students and Teachers in Private Education.
(Scholarship Programs)

REPUBLIC ACT No. 7722

-Creating the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) composed of a chairperson and four (4)
commissioners.

REPUBLIC ACT No. 7743

-the establishment of public libraries and reading centers in every barangay and municipality of the
country.

REPUBLIC ACT No. 7784

-The Centers of Excellence Law

REPUBLIC ACT No. 7796

-The TESDA Law

REPUBLIC ACT No. 7836

-Philippine Teachers Professionalization Act of 1994

REPUBLIC ACT No. 7877

-Anti Sexual harassment Act of 1995

EXECUTIVE ORDER No. 27

-the inclusion of subject courses on human rights in the school curricula, textbooks, and other
reading materials

EXECUTIVE ORDER No. 189

-All public Secondary School teachers under the administrative supervision and control of DECS.

-Issued by former President Corazon Aquino.

PRESIDENTIAL DECREE No. 6-A

-known as the Educational Development Decree of 1972, and was implemented by the late former
President Ferdinand Marcos.

PRESIDENTIAL DECREE No. 146

-this decree requiring ALL senior high school students to pass the National College Entrance
Examination (NCEE) as pre-requisite for admission to any post- secondary academic or professional
degree program.

PRESIDENTIAL DECREE No.451

-this law repealed R.A No. 6139 and authorized the Sec. of Education and Culture to regulate the
imposition of tuition fee and other school fees in all private educational institutions.

PRESIDENTIAL DECREE No. 688

-This law gave the Civil Service Commission the power and authority to give the appropriate
examination for all public school teachers.

PRESIDENTIAL DECREE No. 1139

-this decree issued on May 13, 1977, created the position of the undersecretary for NON-FORMAL
Education who shall make an overall assessment of the existing non formal education programs and
shall take charge of all non-formal education programs of DECS.

DEPARTMENT ORDER No. 1, s.1973

-this DECS order reiterates the policy on the use of locally published textbooks of Filipino authorship
in all levels of education, both public and private.

DEPARTMENT ORDER No. 25, s.1974

-The implementation of BILINGUAL EDUACATION Program which mandates the use of English and
Filipino as separate media of instruction.

MEC ORDER No. 22, s.1978

-ALL institutions shall offer in all their curricular programs at least six (6) units of Filipino, starting the
FIRST SEM Of school year 1979- 1980.
DECS ORDER No. 30, s. 1993

-this order issued on May 20, 1993, providing for a National Elementary Achievement Test (NEAT) for
ALL grade six pupils in Public and Private schools

DECS ORDER No. 38, s. 1994

-provided for a National Secondary Assessment Test (NSAT) to be administered to ALL graduating
public and private high school.

REPUBLIC ACT No. 1265

-the Law on the Observance of Flag Ceremony

EXECUTIVE ORDER No. 200, sec.3

-the Law prohibits fund raising in school

1987 CONSTITUTIONS ARTICLE XIV, sec. 3:2

-the Law teaches and imposes discipline

BATAS PAMBANSA BLG. 232, sec. 13:2 / 1987 CONSTITUTION, ARTICLE XIV, sec 5:2,/ 1973
CONSTITUTION, ARTICLE XV, sec. 8:2

-the Law recognizes Academic Freedom

1992 MANUAL OF REGULATION FOR PRIVATE SCHOOL, sec 48-49

-the Law requires to have a fixed calendar

1992 MANUAL OF REGULATION FOR PRIVATE SCHOOL, sec. 44-47

-the Law on Education specifies faculty qualification

R.A No. 1054 AS AMMENDED BY P.D.’s Nos. 442, 570-A, 622, AND 643

-the Law requires Education to provide Medical and Dental Services

CIVIL CODE, ARTICLE 349

-the Law considers teachers, professors, and administrators to be in LOCO PARENTIS to their pupils
and students

1987 CONSTITUTIONS ARTICLE XIV, sec. 5:4

-the Law requires Education to provide professional advancement teachers.

LAWS ALLOWING PUBLICATIONS IN THE SCHOOL CAMPUS

-the Revised Penal Code of the Philippines prohibits the publication of the following:

1. ARTICLE 138 – inciting the people to rebellion

2. ARTICLE 142 – Seditious Libel

3. ARTICLE 154 – unlawful utterances

4. ARTICLE 201 – Immoral Doctrine, obscene publication and exhibition

5. ARTICLE 356 – threatening to publish and offering the prevent publication of an article for a certain
fee.

6. ARTICLE 357 – acts in the official proceedings that are prohibited to be published

7. ARTICLE 362 – Libelous remarks

GENERAL EDUCATION

(Open for corrections)

★Highway 54 - the old name of EDSA during ww-II

★Trisomy 21 - also known as down syndrome

★Kumintang - Filipinos would sing this song in preparation for war battle

★En ventre sa mere - the right of the unborn child is the same as the right of individual

★Mark Twain - pen name of Samuel Clemens

★Heroic Couplet - last two lines of the Sonnet

★Sergio Osmeña - the first appointed head of the Department of Education during Commonwealth
period

★Philippine Normal University - established by the Americans for aspiring educators in 1901

★Animal cells - donot produce cell walls

★Bousterophedon - Ancient Greeks form of writing

★Nitrogen - the nost abundant gas in the atmosphere

★Skin - body's largest organ

★Chivalric education - also known as social discipline. The educational system which emphasized
social etiquette

★Socratic method - teachers ask questions to try to get students to clarify and rethink their own
ideas, to come eventually to a deep and clear understanding of philosophical concepts

★Saracenic education - this education is training for scientific thinking

★verbatim - word for word

★Social Justice - very foundation of genuine peace and reconciliation

★National Treasury - provides the fund to support the Air Quality Management in the Philippines

★Tomas Pinpin - kauna-unahang manlilimbag na Pilipino

★Pascual Poblete - tinaguriang "Ama ng Pahayagang tagalog"

★Oxygen - a by-product of Photosynthesis

★water - universal solvent

★Gametes (in human) - contain 22 autosomes and 1 sex chromosome

★Emilio Jacinto - utak ng Katipunan

★Apolinario Mabini - utak ng rebolusyon

★Kinkee - the gas lamp used to lighten the streets in intramuros way back in history

★Miranda rule - right of a person under arrest

★Epistemology - examines the nature and origin of human knowledge

★empiricism - holds that the sensory experience is the source of knowledge

★Agnoticism - coined by Thomas Huxley which means "not knowledge but being able to know

★metaphysics - it seeks to find out what is ultimately real

★Horticulture - the art of growing flowers, fruits and vegetables

★Jus sanguinis - a child follows the nationality or citizenship of the parents regardless of the place of
his birth

★1956 - Lupang Hinirang was sung for the first time

★Element - the simplest substance that cannot be decomposed further by normal chemical means

★Pedro Bucaneg - Ama ng panitikang Ilocano

★Intellectual Appreciative Experiences - based on the premise that all the learning has emotional
correlates

★Thailand - formerly called "Siam"

★Henry Otley Beyer - proposed the idea that the first Filipinos came through waves of migration
from South to North

★Klaster - Kambal katinig

★Trinidad Tecson - Ina ng Biak-na-Bato at Ina ng Kruss na Pula (Red cross)

★Truman Doctrine - was an american foreign policy created to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion
during the cold war
★Manila - was named "Distinguished and ever loyal city" by Legaspi

★Mariano Trias - First Vice President of the Republic of the Philippines

★Plebiscite - the direct vote of all the members of an electorate on an important public questions
such as a change in the Constitution.

★Monotheist religion - Christianity, Islam, Judaism

★First sultanate - Sultanate of Sulu

★Diwata I - first Satellite launched by the Philippines

★Franchise - given the right to vote

★disenfranchise - removal of the right to vote

★Antartica - Largest dessert, cold dessert

★Bicameralism - upper house / Lower house

★Executive - implementing body

★Legislative - Lawmaking body

★Judiciary - interpreting body

★Ural Mountain - separated Europe and Asia

★5 ships of Magellan - Trinidad, Conception, Victoria, San Antonio, & San Tiago

★Mongoloids - Known as the Yellow race

★Henry the Navigator - Ancestor ni Dora the Explorer (charr! XD) He's the great king of Portugal

FOUNDATIONS OF EDUCATION

● John Locke 👉 was an English philosopher and physician "Father of Liberalism" ; to form character
(mental, physical, and moral) ; Education as Training of the mind/Formal discipline ; Notable ideas -
"Tabula rasa"

● Francis Bacon 👉 was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator and author. "Father
of scientific method" "Father of empiricism"

● Jean Jacques Rousseau 👉 was a Francophone Genevan philosopher, writer and composer of the
18th century."Hollistic education"(physical,moral, intellectual)

Notable ideas - moral simplicity of humanity; child centered learning; Famous novel: "Emile" or On
Education; Human Development

● Edgar Dale 👉 was an American educator who developed the "Cone of Experience"

aka "Father of Modern Media in Education"

● Erik Erikson 👉 was a German-born American developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst known
for his theory on "psychosocial development" of human beings.

● Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi 👉 was a swiss pedagogue and educational reformer who exemplified
Romanticism in his approach. "Social regeneration of humanity" Notable ideas: "Four-sphere concept
of life" his motto was " Learning by head, hand and heart"

● Friedrich Frobel 👉 was a German pedagogue a student of Pestalozzi who laid the "foundation of
modern education" based on the recognition that children have unique needs and capabilities.
"Father of kindergarten"

● Johann Herbart 👉 was a German philosopher, psychologist and founder of pedagogy as an

academic discipline. ;

● Edward Lee Thorndike 👉 was an American psychologist ; " Father of Modern educational
psychology; connectionism; law of effect. ; "Realize the fullest satisfaction of human wants"

PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF EDUCATION

● IDEALISM 👉 Plato (own ideas) nothing exist except in the mind of a man/ what we want the world
to be

● REALISM 👉 Aristotle;Herbart; Comenius; Pestalozzi; Montessori; Hobbes; Bacon; Locke

▶ (experience) fully mastery of knowledge

● BEHAVIORISM 👉 always guided by standards/by procedure; purpose is to modify the behavior

● EXISTENTIALISM 👉 Kierkegaard; Sartre; "Man shapes his being as he lives"

▶Focuses on self/individual

● PRAGMATISM/EXPERIMENTALISM 👉William James; John Dewey - learn from experiences through

interaction to the environment

▶Emphasizes the needs and interests of the children

● PERENNIALISM 👉 Robert Hutchins

▶focuses on unchanging/universal truths

● ESSENTIALISM 👉 William Bagley - teaching the basic/essential knowledge

▶ Focuses on basic skills and knowledge

● PROGRESSIVISM 👉 Dewey/Pestalozzi (process of development)

▶focuses on the whole child and the cultivation of individuality

● CONSTRUCTIVISM 👉Jean Piaget

 ▶Focused on how humans make meaning in relation to the interaction b/w their experiences and
their ideas. Nature of knowledge w/c represents an epistemological stance.

● SOCIAL RECONSTRUCTIONISM 👉 George Counts - recognized that education was the means of
preparing people for creating his new social order

▶highlights social reform as the aim of education

➡ACCULTURATION - learning other culture; the passing of customs, beliefs and tradition through
interaction and reading.

➡ENCULTURATION - the passing of group's custom, beliefs and traditions from one generation to the
next generation

➡Convergent questions - are those that typically have one correct answer.

➡Divergent questions - also called open-ended questions are used to encourage many answers and
generate greater participation of students. Higher order thinking skills; to think more creatively.

➡90 days - enrolled bills becomes a law

➡30 days - "lapse"

PRINCIPLES & THEORIES OF LEARNING & MOTIVATION

● Psychosexual Theory/Psychoanalysis - Sigmund Freud

● Psychosocial Theory - Erik Erikson's Theory of Personality

● Ecological Theory - Eric Brofenbrenner's Theory of Development

● Sociohistoric Cognitive Linguistic Theory - Lev Semanovich Vygotsky

● Cognitive Development - Jean Piaget; John Dewey; Jerome Brunner

● Phenomenology - Abraham Maslow; Carl Rogers; Louis Raths

● Behaviorism - Edward Thorndike; Ivan Pavlov; Burrhus Frederick Skinner

● Moral Development - Lawrence Kohlberg

● Ivan Pavlov - classical conditioning

● Edward Thorndike - connectionism

● B.F. Skinner - operant conditioning & reinforcement

● Albert Bandura - "bobo doll" experiment; modelling; self eficacy

● David Ausubel - Meaningful Reception Theory

● Jerome Bruner - Discovery Learning Theory/Inquiry method

● Wolfgang Kohler's - Insight Learning Problem

● Richard Atkinson & Richard Shiffrin's - Information Processing Theory

● Robert Gagne's - Cumulative Learning Theory

● Howard Gardner - Multiple Intelligence

● Kurt Lewin's - Field Theory/ his concept of life space

● Brofenbrenner's - Ecological System Theory

● Lev Vygotsky - Social Constructivism; Zond of Proximal Development (ZPD) * gap b/w actual and
potential development

● Hilda Taba - Grassroots Approach

● Max Wertheimer - Gestalt Psychology

● Wilhelm Wundt - "Father of Modern Psychology"

● William James - wrote the "Principles of psychology"/ consciousness

● hypothalamus - brain's stress center

● Abraham Maslow - physiological needs; "Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs" ; safety&security; love &
belongingness; self-esteem; self-actualization

● John B. Watson - (behaviorist approach) an American psychologist who established the

psychological school of behaviorism.

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

● Metaphor - is a comparison made b/w things w/c are essentially not alike.

Ex: "Nobody invites Edward to parties because He is a wet blanket"

● Simile - is like a metaphor and often uses the words "like" or "as"

Ex: "Jamie runs as fast as the wind"

● Personification - when something that is not human is given human-like qualities, this is known as
personification.

Ex: " The leaves danced in the wind on the cold October afternoon"

● Hyperbole - exaggerating, often in a humorous way to make a particular point is known as

hyperbole.

Ex: "My eyes widened at the sight of the mile-high ice cream cones we we're having for dessert"

● Onomatopoeia - when you name an action by imitating the sound associated with it.
Ex: "The bees buzz angrily when their hive is disturbed"

● Idiom - an idiom is an expression used by a particular group of people with a meaning that is only
known through common use.

Ex: "I'm just waiting for him to kick the bucket."

● Synecdoche - a synecdoche is a figure of speech using a word/words that are a part to represent a
whole.

Ex: referring to credit cards as "plastic" is a synecdoche

● Assonance - when you repeat a vowel sound in a phrase, it is an assonance.

Ex: "It's true, I do like Sue."

● Metonymy - a metonymy is a figure of speech where one thing is replaced w/a word that is closely
associated with it such as using "Washington" to refer to the United States

REPUBLIC ACTS

● RA #👉7836 - Philippine Teacher Professionalization Act of 1994

● RA #👉7796 - TESDA Act of 1994

● Article XIV 1987 Philippine Constitution (Educ.Sci & Tech,Arts,Culture& Sports) 👉this is the very
fundamental legal basis of education in thr philippines.

● Education Act of 1982 (Batas Pambansa 232, Sept 11,1982) 👉an Act providing for the
Establishment & Maintenance of an Integrated System of Education

● RA #👉4670 - Magna Carta for Public School Teachers (June 18,1966)

● RA #👉6713 - Code of Conduct & Ethical Standards For Public Officials and Employees

● RA #👉7877 - Anti-sexual Harrassment Act of 1995

● RA #👉9155 - Decentralization; Legal basis of Shared Governance in Basic Education

● RA #👉7784 - Establishment of Center of Excellence

● K-12 Curriculum - Enhanced Basic Education Curriculum

● RA #👉90210 - "An Act to Integrate Information Teachnology into the Public Elementary &
Secondary Curricula & Appropriating funds

● RA #👉10121 - DRMM approval headed by OCO office of Civil defense May 2010

LITERATURE

● Folklore - traditionally derived and orally transmitted literature

● Folktales - reflect the people's beliefs handed down from generation to generation by word of
mouth

● Epilogue - conclusion or final part of non-dramatic literary work

● Genre - distinctive type of literary composition such as epic, tragedy, comedy & novel

● "Quo Vadis" - means "where are you going"

● hieroglyphics - oldest forn of egyptian writing

● Allegory - narrative whose meaning is beneath the surface

● Elegy - a meditated poem of grief

● Sonnet - verse w/14 iambic pentameter lines

● Epic - long poem w/c depicts the adventure of a great hero who reveals his country's aspirations;
narrates heroic deeds and supernatural happenings w/local actor in w/c people sing/chant

● Soliloquy - speech made by a person who reveals his thoughts

● Manuel Arcilla - "How my brother Leon brought home a wife"

● Washington Irving - "The Legend of a Sleepy Hollow"

● Fall of the house of usher - hypochondriac living in morbid fear

● Cyrano de Bergerac - poet & soldier noted for his Peculiar nose

● "The Illiad of Homer" - great epic poem whose plot centers around the anger & wrath of Achilles
against agamemnon

● "The Bells" - "If eyes are made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being"

● Cacophony - literary term w/c means harsh & discordant sounds introduced for poetic effect

● George Bernard Shaw - know for his excellence of characterization, swiftness of narrative & clarity
of style.

● Edgar Allan Poe - greatest American writer of horror and detective stories

● Rabindranath Tagore - best known for his collection of poems called Gitanjali/song offerings

● Robert Frost - ranked as one of the best modern American poets.

● Geoffrey Chaucer - Morning Star of English Literature

● Mark Twain - "Samuel Clemens"

● Harriet Stowe - "Uncle Tom's Cabin"

● Charles Darwin - Origin of species

● Lazlo Biro - invented the ball point pen

● Harry Potter - epic kind of story

VOCABULARY

Emulate 〰 imitate

Vouchsafe 〰 grant

Abeyance 〰 suspended

Denigrate 〰 malign

Furtive 〰 sneaky

Remonstrate 〰protest

Corroborate 〰confirm

Gullible 〰easily deceived

Germane 〰relevant

Plebeian 〰common

Vulpine 〰cunning

Spendthrift 〰spender

Impolitic 〰unwise

Terse 〰concise

Parsimonious 〰stingy

Stupefy 〰make numb

Pariah 〰outcast

Wizened 〰shrivelled

Dubious 〰doubtful
Incriminates 〰accuse

Frivolous 〰worthless

Susceptible 〰inclined

Impertinent 〰irrelevant

Ostracized 〰excluded

Conglomeration 〰diffusion

Cacophonous 〰loud and unpleasant

Carnal 〰worldly

Aplomb 〰composure

Candor 〰honesty

Contemptuous 〰 scornful

Feeble 〰 weak

Inevitable 〰 certain

FILIPINO

● Ang panubong - handog sa dalagang may kaarawan (koronang bulaklak)

● Florante at Laura - (awit) "katiwalian ng mga kastila"

● Jose dela Cruz - tungkod ng tulang tagalog

● Noli Me Tangere - (Rizal) suliraning panlipunan ng bayan

● "Doktrina Kristiyana" - Fr. Domingo de Nieva 👉 unang aklat na nalimbag sa pilipinas

● Severino Reyes - Ama ng dulaang tagalog

● Juan Luna - La Spolarium

● "Alim" - pinakamatandang epiko ng pilipinas

● Jose Palma - naglikha ng "Himno Nacional Filipino"

● Liwayway - nabigyan ng pagpapahalaga ang sariling wika

● Lope K.Santos - "Ama ng balarila ng pilipino"

● Andres Bonifacio - "anak bayan"

● Pupdok/Kinting kulirat - hindi kailanman ginamit ni Marcelo del Pilar

● Teodoro Agoncillo - isang kilalang manunulat ng kasaysayan

● Manuel Quezon - Ama ng Wikang Pambansa

● Constancio de Guzman - lumikha ng awit na "Ang Bayan Ko"

● Pascual Poblete - Ama ng pahayagang tagalog