ED1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Child Protection, Pier Giorgio Frassati, Australian Curriculum
Introduction to Teaching and Curriculum Framework - Lecture 12
Professional and Ethical Responsibilities of the Teacher
The Journey
- Introduction – Why Teach?
- What makes an effective teacher?
- Classroom Management
- Developmental Theories
- Mental Health and Wellbeing
- The Curriculum Framework (WA)
- The national Australian Curriculum
- Assessment and Reporting
- Communication Skills
- NAPLAN and MySchool
- Listening, collaborative learning, direct instruction
- Professionalism and Ethics
- Review and Exam
Professionalism
1. Latin from “Professus” to declare open allegiance to, to lay claim to knowledge of.
2. “To live without faith, without a patrimony to defend, without steady struggle for truth, that is not
living, but existing" Pier Giorgio Frassati
3. Characteristics with other professions:
Service
Working from a body of scholarly knowledge
Working within a “professional community”
Professional standards - set by the profession
4. Be on time
5. Don't leave classroom
Neglect legal duty of care
Defining the Profession
1. Involves activities, essentially intellectual
2. Commands a body of specialised knowledge
3. Requires extended professional preparation
4. Demands continuous in-service
5. Affords a life-career and permanent membership
6. Sets up its own standards
7. Exalts service above personal gain
8. Has a strong professional organisation
9. (Stinnett & Huggett 1963) in Marsh
Purvis (1973)
- Provides a specialised unique service essential to society
- Possesses intellectual techniques
- Requires a long period of training
- Enjoys a high degree of growth and individual professional autonomy
- Exercises its own means of social control through the enforcement of a code of ethics
- Requires a high level of commitment with work and leisure hours not easily demarcated
- Offers a lifetime calling within a career structure
- Encourages the pursuit of research, the diffusion of knowledge and in-service training
- In (Marsh P342)
Traverse and Reborc (1990)
- Characterised by:
A lifelong career commitment
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