TEACHERS PROFESSIONAL AND ETHICS

What qualifies teacher to be a professional?

 Common qualities given by Carr (2000):1. Professionals are a product of theoretical and practical grounded experience. Mastery of
knowledge, skills, attitudes are vital for Are services driven. The presence of clients for professional services, the
justification why they exist.
3. Professionals have stable codes of ethics. Code of ethics is a predictor of strength of a
profession.
4. Procedures for regulation and organization. This is a regulatory framework to foster
professional ineptitude.
5. Professional autonomy.
6. Body of profession

 Teaching is said to be ethical in its nature; and the following are common arguments in supporting:
1. Teaching occupation stands to be evaluated as professionally good or bad with reference
to the standards of instrumental efficiency of effectiveness. Moral debate and virtues
associated with teachers job ie respect, inclusion Vs exclusion etc.
2. Teachers work on behalf of parents,
3. The society’s expectations that teachers are community leaders,
4. Teacher’s obligation is to safeguard the rights of their public/students to access education
– obligation to evaluate.
5. Teacher’s duties are bound for moral development. Education deals with moral values
and their proportions among students,
6. Teachers are students’ moral and models. They need to recognize the students’
vulnerability,
7. Teaching is object of research assessment and evaluation as researchers are bound to the
scientific ethical principles of their works. Eg the need for objectivity and trustworthy.