****DISCUSS 5 CRITERIA FOR A PROFESSION
• UNIQUE SERVICE:
- no other professional practitioner delivers the same service (only educators teach)
- service must be unique + clearly defined,
- interests of the clients (the learner) must always be 1st
• INTELLECTUAL SKILL + SUBJ KNOWLEDGE:
- NB is emphasised in the theory + practical aspects of occupation (teaching as an occupation).
- intellectual skill ( of educator ) = extremely NB measure of true professionalism (the teaching profession)
•SPECIALISED TRAINING:
- a long period of specialised training=required
- this results=specialised knowledge=professional practitioners (educators) experts in their field
•IN-SERVICE TRAINING:
- person (educators) also requires in-service training
- continuously learn (remain a learner)=provide effective service
•CONTINUED RESEARCH:
- NB so outdated concept / actions can be replaced by modern + valid ones
- Research should cover a broad spectrum of selection, training + practice
•AUTONOMY:
- profession must protect its integrity
- professional controlling body ( such as professional teachs association ) represents all the members of the occupation += official mouthpiece of the profession
•PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY:
- practitioners of a profession must accept personal responsibility for their decisions +actions
•ETHICAL CODE:
- authority + privileges that community gives ->professional can be misused for a professional persons benefit… establish a professional code
- An ethical code… systematically sets out the ideal behaviour of a professional person +considered binding.
• SUBORDINATION OF FINANCIAL REWARD TO SERVICE:
- emphasis is on the service (teaching + education) delivered rather than financial reward.
** DEFINE THE TERM ‘PROFESSIONAL ETHICS (5)
- ethics, norms +moral rules / principles that are applied to those practising a particular profession
- … action + behaviour
- Loot (1990) says it: guide actions of practitioners of an occupation so that they can cope with situation in a professional manner
- ethics: science of morality
- professional ethics: ethics of profession
** WHAT ARE THE OBJECTIVES OF A PROFESSIONAL CODE OF CONDUCT?(5)
- make the educator aware of NB -ethical behaviour
- protect +promote the rights +obligations of members of the profession + various associates
- protect the good name of the profession as a whole
- discipline members of a profession
- create ethical standards
- do away with incompetent + unethical behaviour
***** DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PROFESSIONAL TEACHERS ASSOCIATIONS +TEACHERS UNIONS (10)
teachers association:
-association for educators that aims to render service to its member
• create specific area of safety for members
• strive towards professional service
• …promote interests +protect rights of educators
• a teachers’ union :
-established by a group of workers(aim of protecting common interest such: protecting their common interests such as labour provision, remuneration + conditions of service, but also gets involved in broader matters such as state authority + is at the foreground in the political +economic struggle with the state
-believes that it is the state’s responsibility to make provision for all facets of teaching + that it is the right +even the obligations of educators + learners to protest in order to ensure that the state accepts +meets it responsibility
• … protect the common interests of educators
