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Docslide - Us Edu3083i Short Notes
Docslide - Us Edu3083i Short Notes
Docslide - Us Edu3083i Short Notes
Concept of a Profession
A profession is an aptitude created upon specialized educational training,
o Professionals received specialized training in a particular field in a certain period.
o Professionals are experts in a particular field and have autonomy in carrying out
their duties.
o Certified
Show desire to constantly pursue professional development that will enhance and improve
the quality of knowledge and skills
Are members of a union that defines the code of ethics as teachers guide in all professional
activities and comply with the ethic codes prescribed by the organization.
o behaviour, expertise or the quality of a professional person shown while engaging in
the activities of the profession complying to the code of ethics which are prescribed
by the organization of the profession
o Show some desire to always improve and preserve the image of the profession
through the establishment of professional conduct such as appearance, manner of
speech, language, behaviour, the attitude of daily life, and relationships with other
individuals.
o characterized by the degree of pride in the form of pride and self-confidence in his
profession.
Teaching profession is a job that require a high level of education and specialized training
o done by a person who has undergone training to be teachers
o receive training in college to become a qualified teachers.
Example: receiving a Teaching Certificate or Diploma in Education or
teaching degree recognized by the Malaysian government
Practises the knowledge, expertise and skills in a particular skill or subject learned through
training prepared for the teaching profession and counsels others.
Constantly pursue professional development that will enhance and improve the quality of
knowledge and skills related to the teaching profession through
o professional development courses and workshops
o seminars
o research
Become a member of the union that defines the code of ethics as teachers guide in all
professional activities associated with the
o role
o responsibility
o character and
o quality of teachers.
1. Accountability: the nature liable to any person or to any action, decision etc. and able to provide
the necessary explanation and justification
Students
Learning subject content and learning skills and life skills
Create a conducive classroom environment
Using various skills
Educate students to the level of excellence
develop their potential.
Build the character of students
Develop Social interaction
Be fair
Maintain Safety
School
Be present during working hours
Teach in the time allocated
Teach based on the curriculum, based on FPN,
Proper use of school facilities
Perform other services within the teaching profession
Contribute to school development
Colleagues
Respect differences in opinion
Maintain / support / backup professional work
Help develop profesionalism within school
Parents/Guardian
Child learning
Teaching skills
Child safety
Concern/Awareness
As a surrogate parent
Parenting skills
Counseling skills
Kept informed about their childs condition and progress
Nation
Having professional qualities based on SGM
Adhere to teaching ethics based on Falsafah Pendidikan Negara and Rukun Negara,
Develop Psychomotor, Emotion, Spiritual, Intellectual and social skills
Instill values within students
Prepare students to become responsible citizens and nation builders
Prepare students to be able to live together as a nation
Teaching Profession
Provide service based on training
Undergo Formal training
Be Commited
Be Competent
Provide consultancy
Be Knowledgeable
Be a Role model
Develop profesionalisme CK, PCK, TPCK
Undergo professional development seminars, workshops, courses
Adhere to ethics
Maintain integrity
Accept compesation
2. INTEGRITY - honesty, sincerity and includes openness, trust, stick to principles, intractable and
can reliable.
3. Ethics
2. Teacher concerns
Students rarely contribute ideas
Students don't think about the meaning of what they read or hear
Students don't link different lessons
Students don't think about why or how they are doing a task
Students keep making the same mistakes
Students don't read instructions carefully
Students don't learn from mistakes in assessment tasks
Students won't take responsibility for their learning
Students are reluctant to edit or check their work
Students dive into tasks without planning
Students have no alternative strategies when stuck
Students don't link school work with outside life
Students don't believe that their own beliefs are relevant
Students are reluctant to take risks in creative tasks
Students' existing beliefs are not easy to change
Teachers find negotiations difficult
Dealing with mixed ability classes
Classroom management
Time management
Administrative work
Targets
3. Teacher dispositions
A habitual inclination; A tendency to act or think in a particular way
How one reacts or show himself towards the profession
o Positive values in daily life.
o Patience
o Friendly
o Considerate
o Good listener
o hardworking
o Creative and innovative
o Fair
Factors influencing teacher dispositions:
o Educational factors:
early education received
family background
o Experience factors:
life experiences
work experiences
o Environmental factors
Family
Cultures
school
mass media
society
6. Time management
Teacher needs to plan time effectively that either daily, weekly or long term fora variety
of activities such as lectures, learning, leisure, school break and other responsibilities
Involves two dimensions: -
Time management for teachers themselves
Instill the importance of time management to students
7. Financial management
Manage school finances - salary, students fees, purchase and payment
All documents and records should be kept properly as proof.
Need receipt for money withdrawal.
Topic 4 - Stages of teachers development
Effective teachers
Source: National Research Center on English Learning Achievement, 1998 http://cela.albany.edu
An Emphasis on Literature
Teachers read literature and conducted author studies.
Encouraging Self-Regulation
Teachers teach students to self-regulate, encouraging students to choose
appropriate skills when they faced a task rather than wait for the teacher to dictate
a particular skill or strategy.
,
Master Teacher (Guru Pakar)
Master CK, PCK,TPCK and Andragogy
Are proactive, responsive, innovative and Visionary in carrying out their duties as educators.
Can come up with ideas and skills that can influence policy control classrooms.
Participate fully in the planning and implementation of the curriculum
Teachers need to adopt the attitude to 'learn to teach to constantly enhance the acquisition
of knowledge through various means such as:
Doing lots of reading
Conducting research
Attending courses / seminars / forums
Collaborate with colleagues
Demonstrating openness to all knowledge opportunities.
Role as a Supervisor/Guide/Facilitator
Giving guidance as coaching services to individuals to achieve understanding, knowledge and
skills.
Approaches that need to be considered by teachers in discharging their responsibilities as
supervisor:
o Promote
o Expedite
o Simplify
o Assist
o Help
o Make easy
o Advance
Facilitation techniques
o Modeling - Menjadi contoh
o Attending - Memberi perhatian
o Focussing - Memfokus
o Reflecting - Merenung
o Thematising - Menentukan tema
o Challenging - Mencabar
o Goal setting - Menentukan Matlamat
o Trailing - Menjejak (menuruti)
o Trialing - Menguji
o Disclosing - Mendedahkan
o Questioning - Menyoal
o Instructing - Mengarah
o Cognitive Structuring - Menstrukturkan kognitif
o Feedback - Memberi Maklumbalas
Professional development
Encompasses all types of facilitated learning opportunities including credentials such as academic
degrees to formal coursework, conferences and informal learning opportunities situated in practice
3. Research Culture
O Solve problems
Find causes of problems
Suggestion for improvement
Generate critical
O Seek new ways
Generate innovative and creative thinking.
Explore new things
O Preventing assumption
4. Reflective Culture
O Use metacognitive strategies
O Reflect the experiences
O Realize the implications
O Critical about their own practice.
O Evaluate the teaching and learning process
O Help teachers to make decision about the teaching theory
O Help teachers to make decision about whether to proceed or to modify or abandon teaching
stategies and resources
5. Meetings/ Discussion
Meeting
o To come to a consensus
o To make decisions based on agreement
o Action taken should be planned
Discussion
o To share ideas
o To express opinions and feelings
o To avoid conflicts
o Preventing isolation and individualism
6. Collaboration / Cooperation
Collaboration
O Working with others in a project and have a DIFFERENT goals.
O To achieve positive development (win-win)
O Sharing ideas, resources, strategies, methods
O Examples: working with other schools, foreign teachers, other teachers on a project for
different purposes
O Factors affecting:
Being Trustworthy
Volunteering
Cooperation
O Working with others in a project and have a SAME goals.
O To achieve positive development (win-win)
O Sharing ideas, resources, strategies, methods
O Examples: Curriculum review, Team teaching, test moderation
O Based on
Positive interdependence
Accountability
Equal opportunities
Simultaneous interaction
7. In-Service-Training
O Part of Professional Development
O Focus on gaining of knowledge and skills related to the profession
O Falls under the responsibility of the Teacher Education Division (BPG)
O Objectives :
O Provide opportunities for teachers to enhance knowledge and skills
O Enhance teacaher class management skills
O Equip teachers with and to competency
O Give exposure to teachers about innovation in the educational field
O Provide knowledge and awareness regarding the educational transformation