The Department of Education, Teaching Standards, May 2012.
https://www.education.gov.uk/publications/eOrderingDownload/teachers%20standards.pdf
Simpler than I first thought but very clear and concise. Worth a read whatever sort of teaching you do.
Also the National Union of Teacher. Code of professional ethics, can be applicable to all teachers.
http://www.teachers.org.uk/files/active/0/NUT-Code-of-Professional-Ethics.pdf
Wednesday 20 March 2013
Task 5a, Ethics in my work place...
As we all now realise ethics play a huge role in everything we do. I'm gonna try and explore what ethics come into my daily practice.
I'm gonna think firstly about the children I teach, I feel ethically bound to consider how I treat the children, to be fair and considerate but to also treat them as individuals. The way I communicate with them and the language that I use is very important. As a teacher I am a role model to my students and need to set an example of how to behave. Discipline and reprimand need to be handled with careful consideration. Not only am I correcting bad behaviour but am showing the rest of my class what is and isn't except able behaviour and how to deal with people that behave in these ways. Listening to them and giving them the time that they need is important. As is passing back any relevant information to parents and or schools.
What to teach? I'm ethically obliged to plan and deliver adequate lessons. They need to be appropriate, relevant and up to date. Lessons need to be planned and taught with individual children and their needs in mind.
Where I work...if I'm working for myself or an established organisation I need to be aware that I am constantly representing myself/them and need to behave in an appropriate professional manor. Also the space in which I teach my classes needs to be safe and secure. It's my duty to make sure it's this way and to resolve or report and problems that may arise.
My colleagues, wether they are other teachers, admin staff, caretakers or any other number of people I may come into contact with. I feel the need to be civil, honest and have good lines of communication open with them.
Parents/guardians, they are entrusting me with the care of there children. This needs to be met above and beyond expectations.
Data and information... I hold details about my students. Names, addresses and contact details. It is my job to make sure these are stored securely and used for only the correct purposes. And are dissed of correctly at the relevant time.
There are so many angles to look at this from. This is what I have come up with off the top of my head. I'm intrigued now to move on to the next task to see what I have missed...
The mind begins to boggle :)
I'm gonna think firstly about the children I teach, I feel ethically bound to consider how I treat the children, to be fair and considerate but to also treat them as individuals. The way I communicate with them and the language that I use is very important. As a teacher I am a role model to my students and need to set an example of how to behave. Discipline and reprimand need to be handled with careful consideration. Not only am I correcting bad behaviour but am showing the rest of my class what is and isn't except able behaviour and how to deal with people that behave in these ways. Listening to them and giving them the time that they need is important. As is passing back any relevant information to parents and or schools.
What to teach? I'm ethically obliged to plan and deliver adequate lessons. They need to be appropriate, relevant and up to date. Lessons need to be planned and taught with individual children and their needs in mind.
Where I work...if I'm working for myself or an established organisation I need to be aware that I am constantly representing myself/them and need to behave in an appropriate professional manor. Also the space in which I teach my classes needs to be safe and secure. It's my duty to make sure it's this way and to resolve or report and problems that may arise.
My colleagues, wether they are other teachers, admin staff, caretakers or any other number of people I may come into contact with. I feel the need to be civil, honest and have good lines of communication open with them.
Parents/guardians, they are entrusting me with the care of there children. This needs to be met above and beyond expectations.
Data and information... I hold details about my students. Names, addresses and contact details. It is my job to make sure these are stored securely and used for only the correct purposes. And are dissed of correctly at the relevant time.
There are so many angles to look at this from. This is what I have come up with off the top of my head. I'm intrigued now to move on to the next task to see what I have missed...
The mind begins to boggle :)
Tuesday 19 March 2013
Campus Session 2 - module 2.
Professional Ethics...what a bloody mine field!!! I thought I had a good sense of what ethics were but when it came to trying to voice it, well it was on the tip of my tongue but I and many others really struggled with the right words to relay what we were thinking in our heads.
Alan really helped us break it down. We looked at what makes someone a professional... See image 1.
We jotted down what we thought ethics actually are...see image 2.
We talked about who should be concerned with professional ethics...see image 3.
Your professional code of conduct is a great place to start when looking at what ethics involve your practice. Ethics are so far reaching that they effect almost everything you do in your professional and personal live, we make ethical and moral decisions constantly without realising. We all have in build and learnt ethical and moral standards that we adhere to all the time without giving it a second thought.
It's when thought has to be given to it or we are asked to break it down and explain our ethical stance, opinions and choices that I began to realise just how important this topic is and quite how much attention I will have to pay to the ethical side of my inquiry.
Another key thing to come out of this session for me was just how specific our inquiry's need to be. Many of my ideas and those I've heard from others i now realise are much too broad to be able to investigate and get valid and useful results. Also that smaller amounts of quality data may be better that masses of less in-depth information. I was looking at teacher/student relationships. I've now narrowed this right down to looking at How to set a good first impression as a teacher to a new class. Specifically looking at key stage 3 classes in my local area. I think this information will help me develop better relationships with my pupils as first impressions and initial boundaries are very important. I picked a specific age group as different age groups would need to be approached in different ways and this is the key stage in which I aim to be working with. I also have picked to look at this in my local area as children's lifestyles, attitudes and approaches can be different depending on where you live/grew up. So I'd like to get the best heads up on the children that I will be faced with.
I can always return to look at a wider audiences as and when my career calls for it.
Thanks for reading. I'd appreciate your feedback and if you have any questions about the campus session please don't hesitate to ask :)
Alan really helped us break it down. We looked at what makes someone a professional... See image 1.
We jotted down what we thought ethics actually are...see image 2.
We talked about who should be concerned with professional ethics...see image 3.
Your professional code of conduct is a great place to start when looking at what ethics involve your practice. Ethics are so far reaching that they effect almost everything you do in your professional and personal live, we make ethical and moral decisions constantly without realising. We all have in build and learnt ethical and moral standards that we adhere to all the time without giving it a second thought.
It's when thought has to be given to it or we are asked to break it down and explain our ethical stance, opinions and choices that I began to realise just how important this topic is and quite how much attention I will have to pay to the ethical side of my inquiry.
Another key thing to come out of this session for me was just how specific our inquiry's need to be. Many of my ideas and those I've heard from others i now realise are much too broad to be able to investigate and get valid and useful results. Also that smaller amounts of quality data may be better that masses of less in-depth information. I was looking at teacher/student relationships. I've now narrowed this right down to looking at How to set a good first impression as a teacher to a new class. Specifically looking at key stage 3 classes in my local area. I think this information will help me develop better relationships with my pupils as first impressions and initial boundaries are very important. I picked a specific age group as different age groups would need to be approached in different ways and this is the key stage in which I aim to be working with. I also have picked to look at this in my local area as children's lifestyles, attitudes and approaches can be different depending on where you live/grew up. So I'd like to get the best heads up on the children that I will be faced with.
I can always return to look at a wider audiences as and when my career calls for it.
Thanks for reading. I'd appreciate your feedback and if you have any questions about the campus session please don't hesitate to ask :)
Tuesday 5 March 2013
Check this out...
http://peterbryant.smegradio.com/?p=298
A really thought provoking blog by Peter Bryant. Opened my eyes alot about teaching in the 21st century.
A really thought provoking blog by Peter Bryant. Opened my eyes alot about teaching in the 21st century.
A place to share...
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kR7fw6nm0ZTfLbfHxrHbFEWVlRmMb9oVaBZ82LIs1Ps/edit?overridemobile=true#
Here is the link to our Dance/Teaching SIG's doc. Where we will be sharing relevant info, links and communications. Feel free to use and add to it :)
Here is the link to our Dance/Teaching SIG's doc. Where we will be sharing relevant info, links and communications. Feel free to use and add to it :)
Sunday 3 March 2013
Facebook success :)
The groups on Facebook are growing and coming along really nicely. Think we have about 18 members and separate groups forming to create our SIG's.
Anyone not on Facebook let me know and we can find another way to share the information with you.
Hope your all enjoying module 2 as much as I am :)
Anyone not on Facebook let me know and we can find another way to share the information with you.
Hope your all enjoying module 2 as much as I am :)
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