TY - BOOK AU - Bilbao, Purita P. AU - Corpuz, Brenda B.; Llagas, Avelina T.; Salandanan, Gloria D.; TI - The Teaching profession SN - 971-685-673-6 U1 - Fil 371.1 B49t CY - Quezon City KW - Teaching- vocational guidance-philippines N2 - This book is a humble response to the need for instructional materials in The Teaching Profession, a three-unit course of the new teacher education curriculum. It attempts to give the prospective professional teacher a comprehensive view of his/ her multifarious task to enable him/her make an informed decision on whether or not he/she pursues teaching as a profession or give it up for a more lucrative one. That teaching does not attract the best and the brightest is a given. The prevalence of those who can't, teach mentality, is confirmed by the present teacher over supply of mediocrity, the high mortality rate in the Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET) annually for the past ten years (from sixty-five percent (65%) to seventy-five percent (75%), and the Congressional report on continuously deteriorating quality of education in the country ER -