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Chapter 3 Answersheet
Chapter 3 Answersheet
Task A
Answer the following questions.
1. Are all graduates of the Teacher Education program considered
teachers? Why?
Answer: All graduates of Teacher Education Program are not considered as
a teacher. Why? In order to be called as a professional teacher must to pass
the (LET) Licensure Examination for teachers because it is a mandatory
Republic Act (R.A.) 7836 (The Philippine Teachers Professionalization Act
of 1994) mandates the conduct of the Licensure Examination for Teachers
(LET).
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4. You are planning to operate a Kindergarten school. Whom are you going
to employ as a teacher? Choose from the given options and explain your
answer.
A. A graduate in Pre-school Education, graduated cum laude but had not taken
yet the Licensure Examination.
B. BEED graduate with 5 years experience teaching kindergarten class not a
LET passer, so she is accepting a salary of Php 3,000 per month. Why?
Answer: I choose this kind of experience teaching kindergarten even they
are not a let passers but their knowledge and skills in teaching experience
with almost 5 years I think he/she is a qualified of a profession as being
teacher of the kindergarten class.
3. In what ways can the professional teacher help elevate national morality,
promote pride and cultivate love of country?
Answer: Professional teacher help elevate nationality, morality promote
national pride and cultivate love of country through the process of teaching
strategies that mold individual learnings the importance of our own beliefs
and traditions, recognize our heroes who fought for freedom from
colonization and also to maintain values as being Filipino of the beloved
country.
6. How can a professional teacher violate Section 6 and Section 7 of Article II.
Answer: Professional teacher violate Section 6 and section 7 of Article II. If
the teacher uses her profession to encourage their fellow students or parents
as well as her co-workers to support any political willingness of a person.
Example is that if a teacher encourage their students to vote for the political
position of a person close to him/her during election and the consequences if
they will not to vote, they will get low grades from her/him it is obviously
violating Article II, Section 7 and 6.
7. Every teacher shall enjoy academic freedom. What does academic freedom
mean? Is this academic freedom absolute? (Source: Purita Bilbao, et.al.
Teaching Profession, Lesson 2)
Answer: Academic freedom means that both faculty members and students
can engage in intellectual debate without fear or worries that empowered
individual rights and freedom.
4. Which of the activities below should a teacher undergo first to officially perform
his duties and responsibilities
A. Enroll in graduate program to improve his teaching competence.
B. Conduct research studies.
C. Submit himself for an interview.
D. Take an oath of office
3. Why do you need to study about the community you are assigned to?
Answer: For my point of view there’s a positive impact when I study the
community were am I assigned to. first is the People, Environment and their
Traditional background of a certain community that is the reason why am I
need to study their living practices in order to gives me a better
understanding and support and also gives me a deeper sense of
belongingness and valuable relationship of people.
2. Miss B is only 23 years old. She is teaching in a barangay school. She has
lots of friends. Every weekend she is seen with her friends in disco inn
drinking alcoholic drinks and frequently goes home drank. Is Ms. B’s
activities with her friends commendable. Why?
Answer: My comment about this certain behavior of Miss B is not
commendable because she is a licensed teacher. She must be act accordingly
to their profession she must be a good role model to the community and with
fellowmen because as an educator we have a promised and a purpose to
empowered people.
4. How can a teacher shows respect for community customs and traditional
A. Reject customs and traditions which are different from his.
B. Divide the community by pointing out the negative elements of a local
customs and traditions.
C. Disparage the community.
D. Study and strive to understand local customs and traditions.
2. As a professional teacher, how can you uphold the highest possible standard
of quality education?
Answer: As a professional teacher I can uphold the highest possible
standard of quality education by performing my duties well with regards of
being competence and efficiency teacher.
1. Beth, a public school teacher was in a grand reunion party. There she met
friends in high school. Most of them are working abroad and others are
doctors, engineers, and successful business men. Knowing the status of the
people around, she felt intimidated and regretful to be in that gathering.
Everybody was happy and proud sharing their experiences and status in life
except Beth. When it was her turn to share her experiences she introduced
herself by saying “I am just a public school teacher,” Was Beth correct
with her statement “I am just a teacher” and had the feeling of intimidation
in the group?
A. Yes, she is just honest to tell the truth “Honesty is the best policy”.
B. Yes, she can’t hide her social status. So she has to be honest to herself.
C. No, there is nothing to be ashamed of being a teacher. She should have
shown to her friends that she is proud of being a teacher.
D. No, Beth should not be intimidated, after all she was the Valedictorian of
their batch and graduated a Magna Cum Laude in college.
2. Teacher Dina a teacher for thirty years refuses to attend seminars. She
claims that her teaching experience is more than enough the
seminars/trainings she is asked to attend. Is the stand of Teacher Dina
not to attend trainings any more acceptable insofar as the Code of ethics
is concerned?
A. Yes, Miss Dina has been receiving excellent performance rating for a couple
of years.
B. No, a professional teacher regardless of teaching experience ought to go
through Continuing Professional Education.
C. Yes, attending seminars is optional on the part of teachers having a teaching
experience of 15 years or more.
D. No, because attendance in Continuing Professional Education programs is
one of the conditions she accepted upon her employment in DepEd.
3. What provision in the Code of Ethics is violated by Teacher Dina?
Tasks to do
A. Reflect and answer the following questions.
1. Who are the members of the teaching community?
Answer: The members of the teaching community these are the people include
students, teachers, parents, school administrators, as well as businesses,
charitable organizations, and neighborhoods that are interested in the wellbeing
of the school.
2. What is meant by confidential information. As a teacher what are your
responsibilities regarding confidential information.
Answer: According to my research that the confidential information is
defined as information to which the public does not have general access. So,
as a teacher my responsibilities regarding confidential information is I am as
a teacher it is my responsible for holding every students data in confidence
and sharing it only with necessary parties such as parents, other teachers and
other administrator.
2. The school principal was made to submit a module on Science by the Division
Education Supervisor in Science. So she asked here good science teacher to write
the module. Upon completion she submitted the same to the division Office with
her name as the writer. Is the act of the principal ethical. Why?
Self-Check Question on Teacher and the Teaching Community
1. Mr. Buenaventura the principal of Mabuhay Elem. School has a teacher who is
not acting the way he should be. How would you address the problem? If you were
Mr. Mabuhay. How would address the problem?
A. In writing express disapproval of the unbecoming behaviour of the teacher.
B. Be tolerant about the teacher’s behaviour.
C. Talk to the teacher about his behaviour and in the rules of discipline as
stipulated in the code of Ethics.
D. Bring the matter to the office of the district supervisor and wait for the DS
to act on the issue.
2. You are to be transferred to another school to act as Teacher-In-Charge 2 weeks
from now. What are the preparations that you will undertake?
1. Make the classroom ready for the coming of your successor, so that she can
start teaching right away on her first day stray in the school.
2. Prepare for a joint welcome party.
3. Keep all your things including records ready for your transfer.
4. Keep all things ready for turn over to the successor including records and
other documents of students.
A. 1 and 2 B. 1 and 4 C. 2 only D. 2 and 3
3. The school is going to celebrate the World Teachers’ Day. Miss Perez was
designated by the school principal to organize the activities. As an organization,
what would be the best thing to do for the success of the celebration?
A. Get everybody involved Organize committees to take charge of the different
preparations.
B. Teachers not assigned should focus on their teaching activities, after all their
assistance is not needed.
C. Contribute the amount agreed and leave everything to the organizer.
D. All of the above.
Do the following”:”
Identify the Sections of Article VI which is violated by the following
practices :
1. Wearing school uniform is a must among teachers during week days. But
some teachers are coming to school in casual dress for the reason that they
don’t like the school uniform provided by the administration
2. A teacher writing an anonymous letter to the Schools Division
Superintendent about the alleged illegal business of the School principal.
3. Organizing a group of school personnel to seek remedies against injustice
practiced by the District supervisor.
Self-Check Question on The Teacher and the Higher Authorities
1. Teacher Linda came to know that their school principal is soliciting donation
from the community for an alleged school project without the knowledge of all the
teachers in the school and the PTA Officials. She then wrote a letter of complaint
directly to the Schools Division Superintendent about the move of the School
Principal. Is it proper for Teacher Linda to have her complaint filed directly to
the Office of the SDS?
A. No, she should have filed the complaint first to the office of the District
Supervisor.
B. Yes, the district supervisor might not act on the complaint because Teacher
Linda is a close friend of the District Supervisor.
C. No, filing a complaint should be done through channel.
D. None of the above.
2. Two teachers are candidates for, promotion. One teacher offered the staff free
entrance fee to her beach resort to gain favour of others. Is it right for the teacher to
do it?
A. Yes, the rare invitation will certainly be welcomed by an overworked
promotional staff.
B. Yes, this will be a sort of professional growth for the promotional staff with
less expense.
C. Yes, there is nothing wrong with sharing one’s blessing and beside the offer
is heartily done. The promo staff did not ask for it.
D. No, this may exert undue influence on the members of the promotional staff
and so they might give preference to this applicant
3. Result of the selection process of the candidates for promotion, the candidate
who offered free entrance fee to her beach resort got the first rank in the Ranking
of Applicants. You are suspicious of the result. What is the best thing for you to
do first.
A. File a complaint directly to the Secretary of Education?
B. Disseminate the findings of the interview to all teachers and other school
heads.
C. File a case against the promotional staff.
D. Request for an audience with the promotional staff to clarify all your doubts.
Assume that you are the principal of a National High School where there are
a number of teaching and non-teaching personnel like administrative
officer, administrative aids, and security guards, etc. Being the school head
how are you going to deal with these personnel? What are your
responsibilities towards them?
1. One morning, when you passed by the office to sign your daily time record, you
observe that the clerk was upset and grumbling. You felt offended because that her
behaviour was due to the delay in the submission of urgent reports by several
teachers.
What should a professional teacher like you do in connection with
submission of reports?
A. Be punctual in submission
B. Submit your report when you wish
C. Ignore deadline of submission
D. Wait for the last call for submission.
2. Mr. F and Mr. X are both candidate for promotion, Mr. X who is very interested
of the promotion reported to the school principal that Mr. F is allegedly indulged in
gambling and having an illicit relationship with a married woman and such the
primary source of the information was Mr. X. Upon receiving such information the
school principal recommended out rightly for the dismissal of Mr. F. Is the action
of the school principal proper?
A. Yes, because gambling and having illicit affair with married woman is a
violation of the code of ethics.
B. No, receiving an information from somebody is not enough to accuse the
teacher for being guilty of the act. He should undergo due process of the
law.
C. Yes, the principal has the right to recommend for dismissal because it is her
obligation to protect the integrity of the school.
D. No, the principal should investigate first if there if truth in the issue.
3. A School Principal in a certain National High School has the practice of playing
favouritism in dealing with her teachers. One observable practice is on the
selection of teachers to attend trainings or seminars. Most often than not she
attends all seminars alone or if ever teachers are with her in the training they are
here favourites. With this practice not all teachers have the chance to attend
trainings. Is the practice of the principal acceptable?
A. Yes the School Principal has the right to send teachers of her choice to
trainings.
B. No, the School Principal should give equal opportunities to attend trainings
for their professional growth.
C. Yes, the School Principal has the prerogative to attend all trainings and
choose teachers whom she trusts to represent the school.
4. Teacher Siony does not agree with one legitimate policies of the school because
its implementation would greatly affect her business. What is ethical for her to do?
A. Seek audience with the school head and request him to defer the
implementation of said policy.
B. Openly express her personal view on the policy.
C. Discuss the policy with the other teachers and persuade them to express he
ideas against the policy.
D. Exert all honest effort to understand and support the policy.
TASK TO DO.
As a teacher you are aware of the things to be done and to be avoided in
dealing with your learners. Write at least 5 Do’s and Don’ts in dealing with
the learners in and outside classroom activities.
Do’s Don’t’s
Give your stand or comments on the given situations below. Support your
stand by citing the particular provision on article VIII.
1. Ruel fall in love with her student who is graduating this school year. Is it
proper for Ruel to express his feeling to the student.
Answer:
2. You are the teacher adviser of a Grade 12 student who has failing grades in 3
subjects. Her mother approach you because they are leaving abroad and have her
daughter proceed her college studies there. So she is asking help from you to do
something that the failing grade may be changed to passing ratings. How are
you going to handle this situation?
1. A parent complains to a teacher for her daughter’s failing grade. How can a
teacher manifest professionalism in this situation for his failure.
A. Ignore the complaint.
B. Objectively shows how the failing grade came about and assures the
parent that the daughter is given all the academic help he needs.
C. Tell the mother to ask her child why she got failing grades.
D. Put the blame on the parent because her daughter is always
absent and most Often than not come to school late and unprepared
with her lessons.
SCXQ Article IX
2. It is very difficult to please everybody. It could not be avoided that
parents at times give negative criticisms. It so happened that a parent gives her
negative criticism on your ways of dealing with some parents. As a professional
teacher how would you respond to unfair criticism raised by parents? –
A. Listen to the criticism but don’t mind it. Show to the parents that you
are not affected.
B. Reject the criticism outright. Confront the parents concerned.
C. Ignore the criticism and don’t talk to the parents anymore.
D. Take the criticism positively. Make it as a challenge to make a
difference in your ways of dealing parents. Maintain your good
relationship with all the parents.
3. Mary Ann is a very timid child. She is withdrawn and does not mingle with
her classmates. She doesn’t have a friend among her classmates. One day, a couple
who stood as her guardian came to homeroom meeting. The woman was pretty and
had a striking personality, while the man was rather old but personable. After the
meeting, the couple remained for a while to ask about Ann’s performance in
school. From the conversation, you found out that Ann is not their biological child
and the couple were just live-in partners. (Source. Module on Professionalism
and Personal Welfare ( Teacher Induction program)
As a professional teacher, what will you do with the information you
got?
A. Tell other parents about it.
B. Keep in confidence the information gathered.
C. Treat Mary Ann as an unwanted child.
D. Explain to the whole class the condition of Mary Ann.
TASK TO DO:
Reflect on what you’ve learned from your readings on Article X. and share
your insights on the following: Write your answers on a piece of long bond
paper.
3. How are you going to deal with your income generating activities in
such a way that such would not adversely affect your worker as a teacher?
ARTICLE X
Answer the following Question:
1 Which section of Article X is violated by teachers practices in
borrowing money?
2 What are the possible disciplinary actions can be impose to teachers
found guilty of violating Section 2 of Article X as mentioned by Sec.
Briones.?
V. Asssignment /Agreement