CHAPTER 2:

The Teacher in the Classroom and Community

LESSON 1: The National Competency – Based Teacher Standards (NCBTS)

Synapse Strengtheners:

Form 8 groups. Each of the 7 groups will focus on one assignment domain of the NCBTS. The 8th group
will work on the graphic organizer for the Code of Ethics for Professional Teachers.

For the 7 groups – Prove that NCBTS Framework and Code of Ethics for Professional Teachers reinforce
each other. Show that the articles in the Code of Professional Teachers also state basically the same things
that are found in the NCBTS Framework by accomplishing the Table given below:

NCBTS Domain # 1 / Strand Code of Ethics for Professional Teachers (Which Article and Section
in the Code of Ethics for Professional Teachers state basically the
same thing as stated in the NCBTS?
Domain 1 – Social Regard for Article XI – The Teacher as a Person
Learning Section 1. A Teacher shall live with dignity in all places at all times.
Section 3. A Teacher shall maintain at all times a dignified personality
Strand 1. Acts as a positive which could serve as model worthy of emulation by learners, peers
role model for students and others.
NCBTS Domain # 2 / Strand Code of Ethics for Professional Teachers

NCBTS Domain # 3 / Strand Code of Ethics for Professional Teachers

NCBTS Domain # 4 / Strand Code of Ethics for Professional Teachers

NCBTS Domain # 5 / Strand Code of Ethics for Professional Teachers

NCBTS Domain # 6 / Strand Code of Ethics for Professional Teachers

NCBTS Domain # 7 / Strand Code of Ethics for Professional Teachers

2. For Group # 8 – By means of four (4) separate graphic organizers, show the different groups with
whom the teacher relates and write down the key word/s that describe/s how the teacher should relate to
each group. See the graphic on organizer below.

State

Community leader -
Higher Authorities in Professional Behave with honor and
the Phils. Teachers and dignity at all time

Teaching
Community
 Fellow teacher
And other personnel

Parents Professional School official

Teachers

Learner

Each group is expected to present group output to the whole class.

3. For Groups 1-7 (Maintain the same groupings in # 1) - - Your teacher education curriculum consists of
three (3) parts, namely: General Education, Professional Education and Specialization. Examine if the
teacher education curriculum you are presently undergoing adequately prepares you for competencies
contained in the NCBTSs, Pay specific attention to the Professional Education component of the
curriculum. To do this, a table like the one below can be a help. An example is given for you.

NCBTS Domain # 1 / Strand Subjects in the Teacher Education Curriculum

Domain 1 – Social Regard General Education Professional Education Specialization

for Learning
1. Teaching
1. Acts as a positive role Profession
2.

NCBTS Domain # 2 / Strand General Education Professional Education Specialization

NCBTS Domain # 3 / Strand General Education Professional Education Specialization

NCBTS Domain # 4 / Strand General Education Professional Education Specialization

NCBTS Domain # 5 / Strand General Education Professional Education Specialization

NCBTS Domain # 6 / Strand General Education Professional Education Specialization

NCBTS Domain # 7 / Strand General Education Professional Education Specialization

4. For group # 8 – Study the following criteria used by DepEd in evaluating applicants for a teaching
position in the public schools. Then explain if your pre-service education in the College of Education or
teacher education institution is relevant and so increase your chance to be hired as a teacher in the public
school. Write your comment on the space provided.

Criteria Points
A. Education (Applicant’s academic achievement indicated by General Weighted
Average) 25

B. Teaching Experience 10

C. LET/PBET Rating 10

D. Experiential Learning Course 5

E. Specialized Training and Skills 5

F. Interview 10

G. Demonstration Teaching 20

H. Communication Skills 15

Total 100

For the complete details of the hiring guidelines for Teacher I positions, refer to DepEd Order No. 20,
s.2009. You may visit www.deped.gov.ph

Applicants with non-Education degrees shall be related by using their General Weighted Average in their
baccalaureate degrees and the 18 professional units in education.

4. Tell Something about the teacher in the classroom and in the community by completing this acronym.

T–

E–

A–

C–

H–

E–

R–
5. Reflect on the teacher as she goes about her task in the classroom and in the community. In what way is
he/she…

 A piece of iron?

 A well?

 A planter?

 A gardener?

 A door?

 A wake up call?

 A potter?

 A mirror?

 An assessor?

 A nurse?

6. Read this poem “You Are a Teacher” then answer the following question:

YOU ARE A TEACHER

If I speak interestingly, effectively, and well,

But do not understand my students
I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
If I know all of the methods and techniques of teaching,
If I have complete faith that they will work,
So that I use them completely,
But I think only of materials or techniques
Instead of how they can help my students,
I count for nothing.
If I go to the second mile in my teaching,
Give up many activities,
But do it without understanding
It does no good.
Love is very patient, very kind;
Love is not jealous; it does not put on airs;
It is never tyrannic, never;
Yet does insist on truth;
It does not become angry;
It is not resentful.
Love always expects the best of others;
It is gladdened when they live up to these expectations,
Slow to lose faith when they do not.
It will bear anything,
Hope for anything
Endure anything.
This kind of love will never fail
 If there are teaching methods, they will change;
If there are curricula, they will be revised.
For knowledge is imperfect
And our teaching is imperfect,
And we are always looking for the better ways
Which an infinite God has placed ahead of us.
When I began to teach, I fumbled and failed;
Now I have to put away some of my childish ways.
At present I am learning bit by bit;
But if I keep on seeking, I shall at last understand
As all along I myself have been understood.
So faith, hope and love endure.
These are the great three
But the greatest of them is love.

 Which line of the poem do you like most? Why?

 What mental portrait of the teacher in the classroom and the teacher in the community is painted
by the poem, “You Are a Teacher”?
7. Read your name through the poem like this: Brenda You are a Teacher.

If Brenda speaks interestingly, effectively and well

But does not understand her students
Brenda is a noisy gog or a cclanging cymbal.

Call on other students to read their names through the other line of the poem.

Reflection Question:

How did you feel when you read your name through the line of the poem? Describe and explain why.

8. Give the poem:” You Are a Teacher” a tune sing Choreograph it.

9. Conduct a meta-analysis of researches on the qualities of a good teacher. Between the Professional
qualities of a teacher, which ones are perceived to be more important?