Country: Philippines                          
Title:    Enforcement of the Rules and Regulations for the Effective
          Implementation of P.D. No. 1006
Author:            Isidro D. . Carino, Secretary,; Ferdinand E. .
        Marcos, President of the Philippines.  
Institution:       DECS
Citations:         DECS ORDER No. 38, s. 1990, Presidential Decree
                   No. 1006.  
Descriptors:       Teacher certification.  
Full text: PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1006

  PROVIDING FOR THE PROFESSIONALIZATION OF TEACHERS, REGULATING THEIR
  PRACTICE IN THE PHILIPPINES AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

         WHEREAS, the Constitution provides that "All educational
  institutions shall be under the supervision of; and subject to
  regulation by, the State", and requires that "the State shall
  establish and maintain a complete, adequate and integrated system
  of education relevant to the goals of national development";

         WHEREAS, in the pursuit of these objectives, the Department
  of Education and Culture has adopted ways and means of overseeing
  all the educational institutions in the country;

  WHEREAS, this supervisory function of the DEC has been primarily
  beamed towards insuring that the educational institutions inculcate
  in the studentry love of country, teach the duties of citizenship,
  and develop moral character, personal discipline, and scientific,
  technological and vocational efficiency;

  WHEREAS, to implement these objectives, the institutions have
  relied upon their teachers whose direct and continuing interaction
  with the young people and the children make them potent forces for
  the development of proper attitutes among the citizenry;

         WHEREAS, this accounts for the tremendous growth of the
  teaching population, comprising in the civil service sector alone -
  more than 300,000 teachers deployed all over the country;

         WHEREAS, to insure that in the immediately and urgency of
  teacher recruitment qualitative requirements are not overlooked, it
  has become necessary to regulate the teaching profession;

         WHEREAS, although teaching requires a number of years of
  collegiate study, it is only course that is not year considered a
  profession;

         WHEREAS, in recognition of the vital of teachers in
  nation-building and as an incentive to raise the morale of
  teachers, it is imperative that they be considered as professionals
  and teaching be recognized as a profession. NOW, THEREFORE, I
  FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the
  powers vested in me by the Constitution, do hereby decree and
  order;

        SECTION 1.  Title. - This Decree shall be known as the Decree
  Professionalizing Teaching.

   Sec 2.  Declaration of Policy. - It is hereby declared a policy
  that teacher education shall be given primary concern and attention
  by the government and shall be of the highest quality, and strongly
  oriented to Philippine conditions and to the needs and aspirations
  of the Filipino people even as it seeks enrichment from adoptable
  ideas and practices of other people.