Batas Pambansa BLG.232
Batas Pambansa BLG.232
Batas Pambansa BLG.232
232
Reporters:
Cinderella Rodemio
1. List your rights and the corresponding duties and obligations as a teacher.
Rights Obligations
1. The right to be free from compulsory 1. Perform his duties to the school by
assignments not related to their duties as discharging his responsibilities in
defined in their appointments or accordance with the philosophy, goals, and
employment contracts, unless objectives of the school.
compensated therefor, conformably to
existing law.
2. Be accountable for the efficient and
effective attainment of specified learning
2. The right to intellectual property
objectives in pursuance of national
consistent with applicable laws.
development goals within the limits of
available school resources.
3. Teachers shall be deemed persons in 3. Render regular reports on performance
authority when in the discharge of lawful of each student and to the latter and the
duties and responsibilities, and shall, latter's parents and guardians with specific
therefore, be accorded due respect and suggestions for improvement.
protection.
4. Teachers shall be accorded the 4. Assume the responsibility to maintain
opportunity to choose alternative career and sustain his professional growth and
lines either in school administration, in advancement and maintain
classroom teaching, or others, for purposes professionalism in his behaviour at all
of career advancement. times.
5. 5. Refrain from making deductions in
students' scholastic rating for acts that are
clearly not manifestations of poor
scholarship.
6. 6. Participate as an agent of constructive
social, economic, moral, intellectual,
cultural and political change in his school
and the community within the context of
national policies.