A code of ethics is a very important set of rules pertaining to every profession. However for teachers, this code is taken extremely seriously. The Preamble of the National Education Association states: “The educator, believing in the worth and dignity of each human being, recognizes the supreme importance of the pursuit of truth, devotion to excellence, and the nurture of the democratic principles. Essential to these goals is the protection of freedom to learn and to teach and the guarantee of equal educational opportunity for all. The educator accepts the responsibility to adhere to the highest ethical standards”. This statement stood out to me the most in the whole document because it recognizes how important the profession is, and demonstrates how teachers need to teach with the utmost skill and importance.
A teachers code of ethics relates to my personal code of ethics by giving equal opportunity to everybody. I believe that nobody should be at a disadvantage to anything, especially education. The NEA explains right off the bat in their Preamble that it is essential to have the guarantee of equal opportunity, which is something that I strongly believe in as well. The Code of Ethics is divided up into 2 main principles: Commitment to the Student and Commitment to the Profession, basically a system for the people you work with, and you and your job. I find this very crucial because a profession stems under many different categories and it is important to have defined ethics for each one. How teachers act around their young students is not going to correlate to how act around their supervisors.
Outside of the field of teaching, I believe that people perceive that teachers follow their code of ethics very well. This is because in order to become a certified teacher, there are many prerequisites and lots of inspection into the teacher beforehand. Every job requires extensive interviewing and a processing period, but when it comes to teaching, more steps are needed in the process in order to ensure that children will be taught to the greatest extent at the highest level, that they will be safe in the classroom, and that the teacher knows how to handle personable situations. There are so many factors into becoming a teacher that it would be impossible to make one general code of ethics.
The code of ethics in every job is coming to take very seriously. When it comes to teachers, there is a lot more content that is easily taken for granted so in order to prevent this, a more specific code of ethics is developed. Just because a profession’s code of ethics comes off as daunting, it does not mean that you should stray away from it. If anything, it is teaching you how to become more successful.
-Jenna
Source:
"Code of Ethics." Rss. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 Nov. 2016.
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