Course Code: 8612

Unit 1

INTRODUCTION OF PROFESSION AND

CONCEPT OF TEACHING
OUTLINES
We will learn today about:
 Define profession and
professional
 Describe characteristics of
profession and professional
 Explain assumptions about
teaching
 Discuss characteristics of
effective teaching
 PROFESSION
 A profession is a vocation requiring advanced education and
Training (Garner, 2004). It may also be defined as a learned
activity that involves formal training, but within a broad
intellectual context (Bell, 1973).
 CHARACTERISTICS OF PROFESSIONS
 First, professions are based on philosophy acquired through
advanced training.
 Second, professionals render unique public services which
require extensive training.
 Third, professional work needs thorough preparation
because of its unique nature.
 Fourth, professions are based on specialized skill,
 Fifth, professional services should be rendered for the
benefit of the public.
 REGULATION PERFORMANCE
 First, professions offer peer review for the members of the
profession.
 Second, professions focus on the duty to serve the good of the
community as a whole and not just one’s own good or that of
one’s clients.
 Third, professionals are not allowed to engage in unauthorized
practice.
 Fourth, professional evaluation is, in most cases, based on the
standards of malpractice as opposed to negligence so that a
professional will only be held liable where he conducts himself in
a manner that is not befitting to that profession.
 PROFESSIONAL ADVANCEMENT

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 FIDUCIARY RELATIONSHIP

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 PROFESSIONALISM
 Professionalism comes with
obligations/responsibilities
which must at all times be
discharged by the professionals
for the benefit of the public at
large. Members of a profession
are bound to deliver a
professional standard work. This
means that the interests of the
clients are paramount and their
work is to be handled in a
professional manner.
 CONT.…….

The obligation to:

 Work with reasonable care or due diligence,
 Maintain the client’s information,
 Act without negligence,
 The satisfaction of the client
 Not to engage in malpractice.
TEACHING AS PROFESSION
PROFESSION AND VOCATION
PROFESSION AND VOCATION
 ASSUMPTION ABOUT TEACHING
 Carr (1999) describes key claims or assumptions.
Basically, these are:
 (i) That teaching is a professional activity
 (ii) That any professional enterprise is deeply
implicated in ethical concerns and considerations;
and
 (iii) (Therefore) that teaching is also an enterprise
which is deeply and significantly implicated in ethical
concerns and considerations.
CHARACTERISTICS OF EFFECTIVE
TEACHING
QUESTIONS