PRESENTATIO

N OF MANILYN
M.
DOMINGUEZ
 SUMMARY OF THE
RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES
OF TEACHERS IN THE
PHILIPPINES
 INTRODUCTION

 Teaching is the noblest profession and teachers are

expected to exhibit technical and moral competence.
 As professionals and as persons they also need
support and protection from the state while
executing their responsibilities to the learning
community.
Difference between Right and Privilege

 Right is available to all citizens while privilege is granted to

individuals and groups on the basis of their status, rank, title or
membership in a group.
 Suffrage or the right to vote today was available to white males
only at one point of time. It was a privilege then but a right now.
 Many of the rights today were once privileges granted to higher
classes.
 Privileges are exclusive rights that are available to a chosen few.
 Privileges are conditional and can be withdrawn while rights are
inherent and cannot be withdrawn.
 The state has the responsibility to protect the teachers and shall support
the right of teachers to professional development giving them
opportunities to attend trainings, conferences, and even to pursue
advance studies.
 The state/government shall appropriate the highest budget to
education and this include salaries and other benefits for
teachers to ensure that teaching profession will gain its share of best
talents that will also lead to quality education for learners.
 Batas Pambansa Blg. 232 or the Education Act of 1982. This was
an act providing for the establishment and maintenance of an
integrated system of education. In accordance with Section 2, this act
shall apply to and govern both formal and non-formal system in public
and private schools in all levels of the entire education system.
 Provisions which are applicable to all and that, there are provisions
considered as special rights. For example, on the part of the
administrators, they are given sufficient administrative discretion or will,
which is not given to teachers without managerial function. Section 11
and 12 indicates that teachers (including teaching staff & administrators)
are considered persons in authority.
 REPUBLIC ACT NO. 4670 MAGNA
CARTA

 Moreover, under Republic Act No. 4670, also known as “Magna Carta for
Public School Teachers”, which was approved on June 18, 1966,
personal and professional conditions of teachers were considered. Its main
goal is to promote and improve the social and economic status of public school
teachers, their living and working conditions, their employment and
career prospects. It also provided provisions on the following:
recruitment and qualification, consent for transfer, code of professional
conduct of teachers, safeguards in disciplinary procedure, no
discrimination, married teachers, academic freedom, actual classroom
teaching , additional compensation, salary scale, cost of living
allowance, special hardship allowance, deductions prohibited, free medical
examination, study leave, indefinite leave, salary increase upon retirement,
freedom to establish and to join organizations of their choice.
 ASEAN IS A PLACE I WISH TO
EMPLOYED AS TEACHER

 Teaching is not just a job, a profession, or a career, but

it is more than that because by becoming a teacher, we
are leaving a lasting legacy in the lives of many children
under our care. Now, that we are already into
global education, the requirements of a teacher
become more complex and diverse. Teachers
nowadays need to expand the scope of their view point
beyond the normal boundaries of the local classroom as
they are building learners to fit into the global society.
 THE ASEAN: ONE VISION, ONE
IDENTITY, ONE COMMUNITY

 1. Primary Level

 Composed usually of Pre-primary (Play-school, Pre-K,

Kindergarten) and the Primary Level which is composed of
Grade 1, aged 6 years old; Grade 2, aged 7 years old; Grade 3, age 8
years old; Grade 4, aged 9 years old; Grade 5,aged 10 years old, and
Grade 6 aged 11 years old
 In the Philippines, the label primary level refers to elementary level.
The elementary level has two sub-levels, the primary grades
which include Kindergarten to Grade 4 and the intermediate
grades which include Grade 5 and Grade 6.
2. Secondary Level

 This follows the primary level.

 Generally across the ASEAN it is composed of Junior High School

and the Senior High School. The graduate from the senior high
school can proceed to college or find a job appropriate to the
qualification. However, there are slight variations in some countries
such as Lower Secondary level is three years with Grade 7, 8 and 9 while
the Upper Secondary level is composed of Grades 10, 11 and 12.

 In the Philippines, the Junior High School is composed of Grade

7, 8, 9, 10 while Grade 11 and 12 belong to the Senior High school.
Variations in the number of years in basic
education level across the ASEAN members

 Basic education levels in most ASEAN countries have 12 years of formal

schooling, divided into primary, lower secondary levels. All primary
education levels are compulsory, while in insome countries the
secondary level is voluntary except thePhilippines. In Singapore,
the last two year levels are pre university levels. For the
secondary level; there is a variation of 5, 6 or 7 years which are
either labeled as middle school, junior high school, senior high school or
lower or uppersecondary level. There is universal kindergarten and
preschool education for all. The number of years in the primary is from
5to 6 years. •The basic education levels of Elementary/Primary
and the Secondary levels will provide the future jobs of teacher
education pre-service graduates.
 3. Tertiary level

 The college level which is beyond the basic education in all

the countries in the ASEAN.

 It is the ladder of educational system where the student

earns a bachelor’s degree in teacher education, which
is a requirement to take a license examination to
become a professional teacher.
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