Values and ethics in vocational teacher’s actions

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Date: 8.10.2018
Values and ethics in vocational teacher’s actions
  • Planning
  •  Assessment and Feedback
  •  Teaching and guiding methods
  • Special need in Education
  • Legal issues
  •  Intercultural and international issues

Why are we here? For the students! This means that they matter, and we as teachers should work to support them in their learning process. The student of today may become the teacher of tomorrow.

The Comenius’ oath that has been introduced recently, outlines the principles and highlights the value of the work that the vocational teacher does.

The Comenius’ oath can be viewed from the OAJ – Trade Union of Education website: https://www.oaj.fi/cs/oaj/Comenius%20Oath_en

The values that lie behind the teacher’s professional ethics are human worth (Understand that everyone is unique and represent an individual), truthfulness (honesty towards the learners and oneself), fairness (for e.g. being fair in assessment and feedback), rights and responsibilities (responsible to respect the relevant legislation of the institution and curriculum) (Trade Union of Education, 2018).

According to the Trade Union of Education (2018), the teacher ethical principles are as follows: The teacher relationship to his/her work, the teacher and learner, the working community, teachers and other interest groups, teachers and society, teachers in a pluralistic world.  

My thoughts and opinions on values and ethics in vocational teacher’s actions in respect to teaching and guiding method.

I have a feeling and in my opinion the teaching and guiding method of the teacher is less dependent on the empirical evidence on how best a teaching method would suit for a specific class, but more on the available resources that the institution can provide to the teacher. For example, if the teacher believed that the students’ group (n = 30) should be divided into smaller groups (n = 5), for greater support and attention to each individual, and the institution cannot provide this amount of resources. The teacher then decides to offer his own time to the students (which he does not get paid for extra) – where is the values and ethics in it? What about suffering from a burnout?

Here is links for some educational issues that Finland is facing in terms of Values and ethics:

In the second part of my blog I would like to mention some words about bullying at school.  What the Values and ethics in vocational teacher’s actions towards bullying?  Finally, in terms of intercultural matters, the teacher should be intercultural competent if teaching is organised to an international group.

Here is a link of a video on intercultural competence:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMyofREc5Jk&t=158s






Reference:
Trade Union of Education (2018). Opetusalan Ammattijärestö – OAJ. Retrieved from: https://www.oaj.fi/cs/oaj/The%20Values%20lying%20behind%20a%20Teachers%20Professional%20Ethics_en on 8.10.2018




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