Question

• What are the most important ethical and legal responsibilities associated with being a teacher and why?
• Describe a classroom situation that would require a teacher to possess one or more of the following traits: empathy, knowledge of the facts, reason, courage, or interpersonal skills

Answer 1

The most ethical and legal responsibilities associated with being a teacher is to take the profession seriously and the teacher must take it as vital work for helping the students to become a better human being at first. If the teacher is teaching only to earn money then that would not be morally correct. A teacher must have the sense of right and wrong and they should be intellectual and impartial and they should also be able to give moral courage to students so that they can speak up about certain things. The nature of teaching is included in the sponsored teaching that the state gives and teaching must be managed and planned properly. A teacher also should maintain a kind of confidentiality with students' parents. A friendly relationship should be built between them so that both the teacher and the parents can help the student to go in a right direction and to give the student a proper guidance it's the teacher's responsibility to not encourage their bad behavior regarding anything. in legal responsibilities, it is equally important that the teacher is honest and has patience and they are not abusive, neither physically nor mentally. A teacher reflects the values and moral philosophies of the school and they must take care of the fact that they portray it correctly otherwise no amount of excuses can compensate it. Teaching collegues also play a vital role here in terms of showing expertise by several classroom practices.

A classroom situation can be chaotic for an example but how the teacher handles everything by following certain rules without using harsh words to them. Empathy is needed for talkative or disturbed students whose family environment affects them personally. The teacher must give reasons to students so that they understand why creating noise is wrong in the classroom and why being attentive is important. Students who lack confidence teacher should give them courage for that teacher must possess some interpersonal skills like leadership motivation flexibility, what they practice.