The document discusses the laws and policies around professionalizing teaching in the Philippines. Presidential Decree 1006 of 1977 was the first law, establishing requirements for teacher certification and recognizing teaching as a profession. Subsequent laws like the Philippine Teachers Professionalization Act of 1994 (RA 7836) and amendments in Republic Act 9293 aimed to improve teacher quality by creating a licensing exam and board. The laws were meant to incentivize teaching and address issues like poorly trained teachers identified by the Congressional Commission on Education in 1991.

1. The Professionalization
of Teaching

2. Basic Laws on the
Professionalization of
Teaching

3. Presidential Decree 1006
Republic Act 7836
Republic Act 9293

4. Presidential Decree 1006
 Providing for the
Professionalization of
Teachers, regulating their
practice in the Philippines
and for other purposes.

5. PD 1006 was premised on the ff:
1. “Teachers whose direct and continuing
interaction with the young people and
the children make them potent forces
for the development of proper attitudes
among the citizenry;
2. The tremendous growth of the teaching
population
3. To insure that in the immediacy and
urgency of the teacher recruitments are
not overlooked,

6. 4. Teachers requires a number of years of
collegiate study,
5. In recognition of the vital role of the
teachers in nation – building and as an
incentive to raise the morale of
teachers, it is imperative that they be
considered as professionals and
teaching be recognized as a profession”
(PD 1006)

7. PD 1006
 Declared a policy that teacher education
be of the highest quality and strongly
oriented to Philippine conditions and to
the needs and aspirations of the Filipino
people.
 The Civil Service Commission and the
Department of Education and Culture
jointly gave examination for teachers.
 Passers who were qualified were given
Professional Teacher Certificate.

8. PD 1006
 It made teacher’s license a requirement for
teaching.
 “Three years after the effectivity of this
Decree, no person shall engage in
teaching and/or act as a teacher as
Defined in this Decree, whether in public or
private elementary or secondary school,
unless he is holder of Professional
Teacher Certificate or considered as
Professional Teacher under this Decree”

9. PD 1006
 1991 Congressional Commission
affirmed the continuously deteriorating
quality of education in our country.
 The Congressional Commission to
Review and Assess Philippine
Education (EDCOM) came out with the
finding that the “quality of Philippine
Education is declining” and the teachers
are “at the heart of the problem”

10. The EDCOM found:
Teachers are poorly trained;
There is low quality of students
enrolled in teacher training; and
Teaching is perceived as a
poorly esteemed profession.

11.  Section 1. Title – This Decree shall be
known as the Decree Professionalizing
Teaching.
 Section 2. Declaration of Policy.
 Section 3. Definition of Terms.
○ Teaching
○ Teacher
○ Board
 Section 4. Creation of the National Board
for Teachers

12.  Section 5. Powers and Duties
 Section 6. Qualification requirements for
examination applicants.
 Section 7. Appointment of Examiner
 Section 8. Scope of Examination
 Section 9. Ratings in the Examination

13.  Section 10. Report of the results of
examination
 Section 11. Issuance of Certificates
 Section 12. Registration
 Section 13. Reissuance of revoked
certificates and replacement of lost
certificates
 Section 14. Registration by reciprocity

14.  Section 15. Prohibition
 Section 16. Penal Provision
 Section 17. Repealing Clause
 Section 18. Separability Clause.
 Section 19. Effectivity

15. Republic Act No. 7836
 1994 another law on teacher’s
professionalization namely RA No. 7836
 Known as the “Philippine Teachers
Professionalization Act of 1994” was
enacted.
 The Act created by the Board for
Professional Teachers.
 Professional Regulation Commission
gives Licensure Examination for
Teachers (LET)

16. Q U A L I T Y
“to get the BEST and
the BRIGHTEST”

17. Republic Act No. 9293
 It is in support move to hire the most
competent teachers in the classroom.

18. Republic Act No. 7836
 Philippine Teachers
Professionalization Act of
1994

19. Republic Act No. 9293
 An Act Amending Certain
Sections of Republic Act
No. 7836 otherwise known
as the “Philippine Teachers
Professionalization Act of
1994”