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1. School officials shall at times show professional courtesy, helpfulness and sympathy towards teachers and other
personnel, such practices being standards of effective school supervision, dignified administration, responsible
leadership and enlightened direction.
2. School officials, teachers, and other school personnel shall consider it their cooperative responsibility to formulate
policies or introduce important changes in the system at all levels.
3. School officials shall encourage and attend to the professional growth of all teachers under them such as
recommending them for promotion, giving them due recognition for meritorious performance, and allowing them to
participate in conference and training programs.
4. No school official shall dismiss or recommend for dismissal a teacher or other subordinates except for cause.
5. School authorities concerned shall ensure that school teachers are employed in accordance with pertinent
employment policies, and that they are duly qualified professional teachers.

SECTION 8 THE IMMACULADIAN TEACHERS AND LEARNERS

1. The teacher has the right and duty to determine the academic marks and the promotion of learners in the subject
they handle. Such determination shall be in accordance with generally accepted procedures of evaluation and
measurement. In case of any complaint, teachers concerned shall immediately take appropriate action, observing
the process.
2. The teacher shall recognize that the interest and welfare of learners are his/her first and foremost concern, and
shall handle each learner justly and impartially.
3. Under no circumstance shall an teacher be prejudiced or discriminatory against any learner.
4. The teacher shall not accept any favor or gift from learners, their parents or others in their behalf in exchange for
requested concessions, even if deserved.
5. The teacher shall not accept, directly or indirectly, any remuneration from tutorials other than what is provided per
school policy for such service.
6. The teacher shall base the evaluation of the learner’s work on merit and quality of academic performance.
7. Amorous relations between teachers and students are vehemently discouraged. In situations where such develops
between teacher and learner, the teacher shall exercise utmost professional discretion to avoid scandal, gossip,
and preferential treatment of the learner.
8. The teacher shall not inflict corporal punishment on offending learners nor make deductions from their scholastic
ratings as a punishment for acts which are clearly not manifestations of poor scholarship.
9. The teacher shall insure that conditions contributive to the maximum development of learners are adequate and
shall extend needed assistance in preventing or solving learner’s problems and difficulties.

SECTION 9 THE IMMACULADIAN TEACHER AND PERSONAL BUSINESS

1. The teacher has a right to engage, directly or indirectly, in legitimate income generation, provided that it does not
relate to or adversely affect his/her work.
2. The teacher shall maintain a good reputation with respect to financial matters such as in the settlement of his/her
just debts, loans and other financial affairs.
3. No teacher shall act, directly or indirectly, as an agent of, or be financially interested in, any commercial venture
which furnishes textbooks and other school commodities in the purchase and disposal of which he can exercise
official influence, except only when his assignment is inherently related to such purchase and disposal, provided
that such shall be in accordance with existing regulations.

SECTION 10 THE IMMACULADIAN TEACHER AS A PERSON

1. The teacher shall live with dignity in all places at all times.
2. The teacher shall place a premium upon self-respect and self-discipline as principles of personal behavior in all
relationships with others and in all situations.
3. The teacher shall maintain at all times a dignified personality which could serve as model worthy of emulation by
learners, peers and others.
4. The teacher shall always recognize the Almighty God or Being as guide of his/her own destiny and of the destinies
of men and nations.

SECTION 11 THE IMMACULADIAN TEACHER AND THE ADMINISTRATION

1. The teacher’s relationship with the administration shall be characterized by cooperation, open communication,
professionalism and sense of community.

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