5A Professional ethics

The ethics that apply to my work community.

Hamble Community Sports College - Ethics to consider when completing my inquiry

• Child Protection
• Permission to carry out research/impact on colleagues
• When asking colleagues and students for their comments - recognising and informing of intention. How their comments will be used, making all parties aware. 
• Use of specific data - gaining permission and protecting security
• Maintaining objectivity not allowing my thoughts to lead or influence
• Distracting learning and the intact it may have.

How I see my own personal 'code of conduct'!!

• Be responsible for my own actions
• Respect others
• Be honest
• Encourage others and myself at all times
• Be tolerant, respect and understand that others may think, believe and live differently to me.
• Be trustworthy
• Be helpful
• Be friendly
• Live within the law

Do I always stay within the guidelines of this code of conduct??????? I try but not always successfully.

Have I always lived within guidelines??? Definitely not. Age, life and experience has brought made me the person I am and definitely mistakes have moulded me. I am opinionated and set in my ways and fairly recently have come to the understanding that I can be judgemental of others that don't have 
the same ethics and morals as me, I have made an effort to be less judgemental of how others live 
their lives even if I don't agree with what they do. It has been quite an enlightening discovery, all but 
difficult at times. 

'It's been a game changer'

When thinking about my place of work. These are the virtues that I think as a teacher I need to possess....

• Patience
• Respect
• Humour
• Encouragement
• Security
• Positivity

• Adaptability
• Fairness
• A good attitude
• Professionalism
• Self control
• Consistency

Having looked at the 'Teaching Standards documents' https://www.education.gov.uk/publications/eOrderingDownload/teachers%20standards.pdf
I would have to add to my list the following:-

• accountablilty
• planning
• humility
• integrity
• proactivity

do I agree? yes definatley

do I follow and possess these virtues? yes but dont always successfully show them.

Wendy Finn writes on the 'Bright Hub Education' website.

'I have heard it all.......Anyone can be a teacher, but being a teacher is not good enough. 

If someone is truly interested in becoming a teacher, that means one is interested in the well-being and success of youngsters, whether they are five or eighteen.

Teaching is not easy, and many do not realise the demands and stress level that teachers bear. Any full time job is gruelling, but having look out for 30 children at one time can be overwhelming, it takes a good many virutes to be a good teacher'.

I completly agree with this statement, and need to remember it at all times in my pracitce. I see teachers all the time that seem to have forgotten these virtues due to the high levels of expectation within teaching today.