Ethical Standards

The teaching profession carries with it four main ethical standards that are to be upheld by every teacher. They are care, respect, trust and integrity. As a future educator I am committed to demonstrating each one to the best of my ability. I think people who love to be teachers automatically demonstrate care in everything they do, due to the fact that care is such a monumental part of being a teacher. Closely following that is trust. Students need to trust the source of the knowledge or they will not accept it. If students trust the teacher they are more open to accepting the knowledge that the teacher is trying to pass on to them therefore I believe trust is such a vital step in the learning process. Respect on the other hand I believe is not only a imperative in the classroom but rather a way of life in general. As a sociologist I believe respect needs to be intertwined throughout our society and maintained within the classroom learning environment to better our society as a whole. The final ethical standard, integrity is never the less just as important because as educators we are moral models for our students. We are not only teaching our students math, language and science, as educators we also must strive to instil great morality in each and every student. It is through such actions as these that teachers fulfill each ethical standard to their greatest ability.