Professional Teaching

Professionalism is a specific style of behavior in the workplace. It can be demonstrated through a foundation of competence, communication skills, and ethical and legal understanding, upon which is built the aspiration to and wise application of the principles of professionals: excellence, humanism, accountability, and altruism. According to Miriam Webster dictionary; Professionalism is defined as the conduct, aims, or qualities that characterize or mark a profession or professional person. It can also be demonstrated when a person conforms to technical and/or ethical standards of his or her profession.

Professionalism is not one thing but it is a combination of qualities. A professional employee arrives on time for work and manages time effectively. Professional workers should take responsibility for their own behavior and work effectively with others. High quality of work standards, honesty, and integrity are regarded as part of the package. Professional employees should look neat and dress appropriate for the job. Communicating effectively and appropriately for the workplace is also part of professionalism. In this case, employees are expected to communicate with each other in a well behaved manner, irrespective of their position in the workplace.

In the workplace, professional workers are expected to work hard and be punctual by managing time effectively, including their arrival and returns on time from breaks or lunch. In an office setting, an employee will work productively with others and strive for high standard and constant improvement. In some circumstances professional may look slightly different in various setting but the core elements are always the same.

TEACHER PROFESSIONALISM

Teacher professionalism is acting with integrity inside and outside the classroom. This involves understanding and acting upon responsibilities that a teacher has to the subject matter, learners, and community as a whole. Professionalism in this manner engage in behaviors that support learning and teaching, facilitate open communication within the classroom and the culture of the school and being proactive.

A professional teacher should demonstrate respect for learners, faculty and staff as all those qualities are important in the school environment. Accepting diversity in the workplace will add value to profession which include accepting the strengths and weakness of every individual and focusing on working together as a team to identify and achieve individual and community goals and outcomes to work towards.

Kramer (2013) contends the most critical elements of teacher professionalism can be classified into three categories; which are attitudes, behavior, and communication. These categories cover a wide range of behaviors and characteristics that should be demonstrated in the professional lives of educators, from being on time and dressing formally to understanding learning theories to clearly communicating with their colleagues, parents and learners.

Major aspects of professional teacher is to reflect a good character in the workplace, have commitment to change continuous improvements towards learning and teaching, have knowledge of the subject he/she is teaching as this will make it easy for learners to attain outcomes that are designed for the lesson, pedagogical knowledge and obligations, and have a good working relationship beyond classroom.

INTERVIEW TO DEVELOP PROFESSIONAL TEACHING FRAMEWORK

Teacher 1

Indicators of Professional Knowledge

• Know their content and how to teach that content to their students understand curriculum documents, policies and programs associated with the content they teach
• The educator must be up to date with new information about his/her subjects and know how to elaborate that information effective where his learners will understand it in easy way. Where the learners can be effective in a classroom.

Indicators of Professional Practice

• Use a range of strategies, technologies, activities and resources to engage students in their learning
• The educator can use the different strategy and resources for learners to understand and to create effective classroom management. If learners understand the strategy the educator use there is no use for educator can change the strategy.
• Every educator have own methods or strategy for his/her own lesson now every subject have different needs of activities that educator can use.

Indicators of Professional Relationships

• Communicate effectively with students
• Educator must have self-respect and we will be sure that educator will treat the learners with respect and honors the regulations and the policies of the educator and learners. If the educator can first respect learners and make ground rule that are followed the class will run smooth and we will call that professional relationship between educator and learners because they achieve the purpose of the day within the limited time they are given.

Indicators of Professional Attributes

• Are passionate and committed to teaching and learning
• Lots of educators have passion for teaching and learning nowadays educators take their time that they must spend with their family and use it to the matric learners during the recess period. Other educator continue their studies or develop themselves to be equipped educators that's passion for teaching and learning.

What are challenging about being professional

• The challenge we have as educator we need time for our families the educator become addicted to the learners now when they are at home they become tight and they don't get time to relax with their family in other words we can say they start forget about their families or neglect your family because educator start to enjoy in h/her work or learners.

Teacher 2

Indicators of Professional Knowledge

• Program to meet a range of individual needs and abilities
• The overcrowding and the number of classes educator teach makes educator suffer to know learners individual needs even though educator know his learners he/she need time because of the classes that need to be attended to.

Indicators of Professional Practice

• Provide a learning environment that encourages students to take responsibility for their own learning
• The education nowadays is learner centered learning that means learners take more part in classroom now the educator is there to provide media and strategies for smooth learning and create environment that will suit all learners within classroom and make sure that every learner is satisfied or change the attitude towards what they were treating in that class.

Indicators of Professional Relationships

• Work cooperatively with colleagues to support teaching and learning
• The relationship between educators must of caring and team work if educator have good relationship the results of school will never drop because the educator respect their duty and there will be a progress between educators and learners now learners will take their duty serious duties like homework and school attendance because they will feel left out when they don't do school work.

Indicators of Professional Attributes

• Display ethical behavior and responsibility
• Ethics education should aim to promote students' maturity across a broad spectrum of moral functioning, including moral reasoning, moral affect and moral behavior. To identify the most effective strategy for promoting the comprehensive moral maturity of high school students, we enrolled students in one of four groups: an introductory ethics class, a blended economics??ethics class, a role?model ethics class taught by graduate students and a non?ethics comparison class

What are challenging about being professional
Learner late coming, disrespectful and absenteeism in school clearly this affect the professionalism educator want to apply in the learner s and it will affect the school result and fails the learners their right to school.

Findings

Educator must be up to date with subject matter because nowadays education is developing every day now educator need to develop themselves to have more information about the subject needs and know how to make the subject easy for the student because we can't give learner everything that came from textbook we can give learner practical for them to understand clearly. Other educator are professional but the overcrowding of learners and the classes that educator must teach he/she end up not getting time for learners who need individual time. Most of learners need special time but the time the educator is given that can't cover for the whole learners needs. Now our government need to restructure the rall and the educator because the educator and learners they don't get more time for themselves.

Every educator have his/her own strategy of teaching the learners but if educator have good strategy he/she can use if it works for his learners. More strategy must be in place for educator to use because single strategy can't work for the whole semester other topic need different teaching strategy educator need to reflect his/her work. Nowadays teaching and learning is centered in learners than in educator more work is done by learners now if learners absent themselves they will have problem to learn.

Educator further their studies to have more knowledge about the subject or other is for management purpose that show the committed of educator in their work or responsibility but your will find the parents not motivating their children to do school work even though they have absent themselves in school they don't edge them to attend school in the following day.

There are few school who value team work in many schools you will find that every educator is on its own but within single school even though they have subject meeting everyone have own strategy that he/she use now schools like that they dint have good communication and it end up affecting learners results because the educator doesn't care about learners but themselves, but school that have team work you will see their learners buy loving school and their results.

The learners' behaviors plays and important role in the educator's professionalism there are school that learners are disrespectful, absents and late comers in school that is the main problem because there is nothing educator can do the only thing left the school is parental support for school to survive.

In conclusion; the ground work of an educated society relies on the teacher who daily interact with learners from early childhood to teenagers, it is important to comprehend what it means to be a professional educator. Educators plays major roles in the learner's life because they work as social workers, advisor, developer and so many things. In most cases teachers understand how children learn and making teaching decisions based on that knowledge.

They work so hard to help children who have learning barriers to understand the content by creating enough time to explain the lesson in a better way and even making more demonstrations that can give those learners a clear understanding of the content. Education system in South Africa needs professional educators who will improve their skills and knowledge to bring changes in the school environment or in classrooms.

In our findings, as we take a close look at the teachers' responses reveals conclusions that are very interesting and raises several questions for further investigation. Finally, the results of this assignment indicate the importance of communicating what it means to be a professional educator to a wider community.

REFERENCENCE

• E. Meggary (Eds), The Professional Development Of Teachers. London:
• Koganhttp://www.ehow.com/list_5848567_rulesprofessionalism. Html (author, Karie Fay, eHow Contributing Writer)
• Kramer, P. (2013). The ABC's of professionalism. Kappa DeltaPi Record
• Stronge, J. ; Hindman, J. (2003). Hiring the best teachrs. Educational leardership

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