Qualities and Ethics of Teachers

• Teachers are licensed professionals expected to uphold high moral values and demonstrate technical and professional competence.

Teaching Perspective

• Teaching is both an art and a science.
• As an art it uses creativity
• As a science it employs organized procedures and mental skills to gain knowledge.

Qualities of a Teacher

• Critical personal qualities include a strong philosophy, diverse interests, positive attitudes, and strong beliefs.
• Emotional maturity and good interpersonal skills are important.
• Physical and mental health, stability, self-control, and superior intelligence are important.
• Sympathy, kindness, integrity, flexibility, fairness, sociability, and a sense of humor are valuable traits.
• Professional qualities include knowledge of the subject matter and an understanding of educational principles.
• Appreciation for teaching, understanding the learner, and knowledge in other fields are important.

Teacher's Code of Ethics

• Professional ethics ensures all members experience happiness, camaraderie, and security in their chosen occupation.
• Article II emphasizes the teacher's role as a trustee of national heritage.
• Teachers must elevate national morality, promote pride, and instill allegiance to the constitution.
• Active participation in state policies and commitment to duty are required.
• Teachers should be physically, mentally, and morally fit.
• Promotion of political or religious interests is prohibited.
• Teachers should vote and exercise constitutional rights responsibly.
• Using position to coerce political action is forbidden.
• Academic freedom is protected, with a caveat for state policies.
• Article III casts teachers are facilitators who create conducive learning environments.
• Teachers should maintain honor, dignity, and avoid excesses.
• Understanding local customs and traditions, and acting as intellectual leaders, is required.
• It is expected that teachers will extend counseling services.
• Harmonious relations with other professionals and freedom of worship are encouraged.
• Article IV promotes teaching as a noble profession, marked by enthusiasm and pride.
• High standards, continuous education, and professional development enhance competitiveness.
• Article V stipulates teachers should organize records before leaving a position.
• Confidential information and school documents must be protected.
• Constructive criticism of colleagues is allowed, if necessary.
• Applying for vacant positions requires respecting merit and competence.
• Article VI says that teachers should support school policies and present valid charges against superiors through proper channels.
• Seeking redress against injustice and ensuring fair appointments based on merit are rights.
• Article VII encourages school officials to promote teacher growth and restrict dismissals to cases with cause.
• Civil service rules and contracts should be followed for teacher employment.
• Article X states Teachers can engage in legitimate income generation that doesn't affect their teaching.
• Maintaining a good financial reputation and avoiding conflicts of interest are necessary.
• Article XII: Violations of the code may result in disciplinary actions, including revocation of license or suspension.

School Environment

• The most important variable is the learner, which should be taken into account when educating
• Another extremely important variable is that students' minds should be stimulated in a pleasant location
• Materials are needed for smooth logistics and teaching

Elements of the Teaching-Learning Process

• Key components include teachers, learners, instructional methods, and curriculum.
• Methodology emphasizes orderly and systematic procedures based on science and teaching arts.
• Teachers need to prepare a well-planned curriculum characterized by related and progressive acts to help students attain their goals.
• Curriculum should be designed with student gains in mind and planned around the prevailing culture in the classrooms

Principles of Teaching

• Comprehensive laws or doctrines guide professional action, are derived from expert opinions, comparative studies, experiments, and analyzed experiences.

Areas of Teaching Principle

• Initiative and responsibility with the student is key
• Democracy aims to foster development, and maintenance of sound personalities
• Teachers should aim to create good effective learning environments in their classrooms

Domain Strands

• Diversity of Learners include awareness of differences in gender, needs, backgrounds, etc.
• Curriculum and Planning include managing the learning process, outcomes, and collaboration.
• Curriculum should make use of real-world experience where possible
• Assessment and Reporting uses strategies to monitor progress and communication for advancement
• Community Linkages and Professional Engagement connects environments and families in the educative progress
• Personal Growth and Professional Development should occur with the use of feedback and improvement measures

Domains Required by Teachers to be Effective in the 21st Century

• Content Knowledge and Pedagogy entails knowledge of the curriculum areas
• Research-based teaching using mother tongue, Filipino and English
• Learning environment takes heed in how a students learning environment impact their behavior.
• Curriculum should be structured to support participation and be purposed to the students in mind

Additional Teaching Principles

• Intellect is shared between students and teachers, and builds interest and engagement.
• Students respond well to the freedom offered in classes
• Ineffective classes happen where there is hypothetical tension
• Questions should lead to exploration and development of intellectual improvement
• Assessments lead to higher marks

Related Responsibilities of Teachers

• Teachers are managers of their class and its effective management
• They are motivators that should set the tone and interest for a class
• A good teacher is a leader to the students, to steer them to success
• Teachers are models to emulate
• Good teachers act as substitute parents to offer the best guidance to children
• Social catalyst act to improve inter-reliance and create a better environment
• They also facilitate learning rather than teach didactically
• Guidance must also be provided for students struggling in their studies

Learning

• Modification of coordination and responses from living organisms
• Learning comes when behaviors and responses happen organically
• Key is to have students have clarity in their goals based on motivation

Nature of Learning

• Should be a wide variety of skills and opportunities to grow
• Learning should occur with the use of abstract concepts
• For learning, the student ability should be noted more deeply, not superficial
• Theories include Behavioral/Organismic

Behavioral Theories of Learning

• Three steps: Environment, Performance and Reinforcement must occur
• Assumptions is learning occurs by replacing one stimuli with another

Classical Conditioning

• An individual learns association between stimulants until they are paired to a conditioned response
• Key is to assist with cognitive and other reactions
• Activities should be related to pleasant experiences so all students win and have an easier time doing it

Operant Conditioning

• Environmental conditions influence a behavioral change
• Can be seen as good or bad events/consequences to control an organism
• Reinforcements should strengthen behavior, whilst punishments weaken them
• New skills can motivate all students
• The stimulus as to what behavior will be punished should be clear

Principles of Learning in Operant Conditioning

• Behavior changes in reaction to the immediate result
• Any action following a response leads to higher chances that the reaction will occur again
• Bad activities paired to good activities are better for all
• Previously learned behavior will disappear when the reinforcements are withdrawn
• Reinforcers have various effects on differently
• Learners should be helped in making generalizations based on their strengths and weakness

Social Learning Theory

• Observation, imitation, and the individuals around them, and their behavior lead to social learning
• The subject must pay Attention, Retain focus, Reproduce, and have Motivation
• This theory extends to the wholeness of the learning with demonstration

Information Processing Theory

• The essence is about how the mind has faculties, and that education's main goal is to bring them forth
• Therefore holding the listeners attention to the task is essential

Steps in Teaching

• Make the intention very clear
• Show old things and compare it with new information
• Focus attention on the subject
• Be active and give constant rewards/drill

Cumulative Learning Theory

• Set the component skills that must be learned before the complex skill of which a student can learn.

Classroom Principles

• Key is to be sensitive and realistic on the goals by setting lessons appropriately

Additional learning Principles

• Reinforcements and the removal of stimulus is important to learning in a classroom.
• High pressure leads to lower performance
• Remove pressure to create a happier result

Division of Learning

• Cognition is the intellectual side
• Affective: How to connect with other persons values and interests
• Psychomotor: Coordination, skills, actions physically that needs to occur

ABCD of learning

• Audience: The one learning
• Behavior: How they can act. Measure that learning with the bloom's action
• Condition: What behavior is to be performed.
• Degree: Measure for performance.

Instructional objectives

• Specific, observable student behaviors.
• Designed for specific students
• The instructor leads with the main focus on the main point
• Directing, providing, communication is important
• These objectives allow teachers to be aware what goals should be achieved in the classroom

Explore the essential qualities and ethics of teachers. Teaching encompasses both artistic creativity and scientific methodologies. Discover the personal and professional attributes that define an effective educator, along with the moral principles that guide their conduct.