Personal/ Professional Code of Conduct

My Acceptance of “In loco parentus”

As an educator you become fill in parent. One that protects, provides and comforts. When

learning how to be an educator people tell you about all the things that you should and should not

do. One thing that I believe needs to be common sense is the importance of protecting each child

that is in your care. Caring for that child incudes putting their needs before yours and looking at

all the elements present in that child’s life. I do not take becoming an educator lightly, becoming

an education is not as simple as people make it out to be. There are multiple elements, but I

believe that if one has a complete grasp on what it means to be an in loco parentus then the rest

will fall in line.

Being the in loco parentus does not only include caring for the child, but it also includes

teaching them. This does not only apply to scholastic things but as well as life. I want to be the

teacher that students learn life lesson from, just by how I act in situations. It is important to be a

role model for the students just like their parents are. Being a role model to me means, being

patient, kind, and slow to anger because then the children will reflect that energy and become

that. This then generates a happy and playful learning environment. Becoming in loco parentus is

not simply becoming a disciplinarian but a safe haven for both the children and their guardians.

Appropriate and Encouraged Potentially Harmful and Inappropriate and Prohibited

Interactions with my students
Include:
v Daily affirmations on
student’s progress
v Updated charts on
students’ interactions
v Conversations and
meeting with students
in public areas
Questionable Interactions
with my Students Include:
v Singling out certain
students
(This will create the idea that
one student educations is
more important than
another’s. This also brings up
the thought of favoritism.)
Interactions with my students
Include:
v Private meetings
( breaks code of ethics
as well as disrupts the
students trust)
v Inappropriate Jokes
(Against code of
ethics and makes the
 v Conversations with
students’ parents
v Class wide Storytime
v Weekly rewards for
student achievements
v Respectful
relationships with
both students and
gradians.
v Promoting respectful
relationships between
students.
v Being patience and
accepting of flaws.
Code of conduct Presentation
I believe that my demeaner should speak the loudest for my rules against inappropriate
conduct with my students. In the first meeting I want to establish respect and trust. I will do this
by making boundaries clear. I want to be the type of teacher that is comforting to my students,
but I do not want to become a friend. I plan to make these beliefs clear in the rules that are placed
v Meeting with students
outside school
grounds.
(this is inappropriate
because it brings up
the trouble of, he say
she say)
v Touching or grabbing
students\
(makes students feel
uncountable and aids
in the lost of trust)
v Not talking to student
guardians.
(makes the parents
feel as if you do not
care about their
child’s education)
v Singling out students
(causes students to
feel as if the teacher
does not care about
their education)
v Shouting or yelling
(makes the students
fell less than)
v Unfair grading.
(makes the students
feel as if they do not
have the potential to
complete task)
v Unwanted contact
(violates personal
space and rights)
students
uncomfortable)
v Sharing their
confidential
information
(this action invades
student privacy)
v Abandoning students
when they need me
most.
(makes the students
feel as if they are not
cared for)
v Sexual relations with
students.
(This against the code
of ethics and well as
extremely
inappropriate)
v Inappropriate errands
(this is against the
code of ethics as well
as aiding in the
destruction of respect
and trust)
v Bribing students to
complete task.
(against the code of
ethics as well as
inappropriate.)
v Grooming of students.
(this is ethically
wrong and leads to
the inappropriate
contact with students)
in my classroom. I believe that when you have appropriate contact with the students it should

also reflect in the relationship with the student’s parents. As a future education nothing comes

before the care of my students and maintain a healthy and appropriate relationship.