Historical Development of Teaching Profession

Entry #3

To study the Historical Development of Teaching as a profession in the Philippines is a good lesson for us as a student and a future educator because by studying this, we are able to know how education started and we can understand why teaching profession is very important.
The Presidential Decree 1006 (1976) issued by Pres. Ferdinand Marcos and the Philippines Teacher Professionalized Act of 1994 is very important to the teachers in Philippines because for the very long time that education started in the Philippines, they were known to be a professional.
In the Pre-hispanic period, there was no established formal schooling in the country and also, there was no formal preparation for teachers so, parents and tribal leaders served as teachers at home and in the community and then, here comes the American and Spaniards who colonized our country, the development of education in the Philippines started as well as the teaching profession.
The teaching profession today is very different to the past because today, there are many opportunities but also difficulties to become a professional in teaching, we just need to prepared for this.

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