Professional Ethics of General Emilio Aguinaldo National High School Teachers: Basis for Personality Development Program

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Teachers play a vital role in the society. Ethics is something that is done every day, but it also about people (Hendricks, 2008). One factor of declining the Philippine education is brought about the lack of personal and professional development to the teaching profession (Inocian, 2015). This study aims to determine the following—(1) differences and extent of professional ethics practiced by the General Emilio Aguinaldo Teachers in the following variables: attendance, teamwork, mentoring,productivity, cooperation and respect for others as assessed by administrators, teachers and GPTA officers; (2) problems encountered by the teachers in terms of practicing the professional ethics; (3) and a personality development program in order to enhance the professional ethics of the high school teachers.

METHODS

This study employed descriptive research which involved description, recording, analysis and interpretation of the present nature. The focus was on prevailing conditions on how a person or group behaves or functions in the present. The researcher used Slovin's formula to get the sample size of the population. The following statistical tools were utilized in the treatment of the data T-test, ANOVA, ranking and weighted mean.

RESULTS

The assessment of the respondents on the professional ethics as practiced by the teachers shows great extent in terms of attendance, teamwork, mentoring, productivity cooperation and respect for others. On the other hand, teamwork, mentoring, cooperation and respect for others have significant differences. It is also evident that there is a problem about the cordial relationship of teachers and parents. If this problem will not be resolved it will give a continuous conflict between the parents and the teachers.

DISCUSSIONS

The results shown that in order to enhance teachers' knowledge and perception of the professional ethics, administrators may conduct regular evaluation. This should be the bases for refresher programs through which the teachers are re-educated on the value of behaving professionally. Administrators should constantly remind, inspire and nurture the sense of professionalism in articulating duties to the teachers. There should also be a constant conference or communication every grading period or monthly between teachers and parents so that there will be a cordial relationship between them. A personality development program could be initiated every year with corresponding evaluation to determine the impact on the part of the teachers.