CHAPTER 3

ETHICAL ISSUES
AMONG
THE TEACHERS
By:
Farah Natasha binti Kamaludin
Atikah Munirah binti Abdul Karim

CONTEN
T
Teachers politeness
Teachers care/concern
Teachers appearance
Business in school
Part time career
Time management
Financial management

TEACHERS
POLITENESS
behaving in a way that is socially correct
and
shows understanding of and care for
other people's feelings
Politeness : procedure, custom/ habit
that occurs in community that helps
build
bonding relationship

Characteristics of politeness :
be sincere, honest, kind, caring and
willing to sacrifice
be thankful and grateful
brave and able to conduct any
misconduct
respect other people
non-hostile and not hurting other
people
warm and generous

Nature of
politeness:

kind
humorous
patient
responsible
confident
leadership

TEACHERS CARE
Hall, George, and Rutherford, 1977 :
A composite representation of the
feelings, thoughts, and attention given
to certain issues or
tasks
Care : combination of feelings, thoughts
and attention given to the issues that
teachers face while implementing
their daily duties

A teacher should :
be aware of changes
be interested in changes
recognize the pupils
manage changes
assess the impact of
changes
work with colleagues
make improvements

Fuller , Parsons and Watkins

(1974), categorized care
into 3 levels:
CARE IN TERMS OF SELF
ACTUALIZATION
- Daily life managements
- Teachers personal concern (does
not interfere with or affects the
worksTOWARDS THE JOB OF TEACHING
CARE
- Concerned about the materials,
methods and teaching workloads
- Try to understand pupils perspectives
and opinion of the teachers teaching
CONCERN OVER THE IMPACT OF
TEACHING
- Involves teachers observation of
the effectiveness of teaching and
pupils achievement

TEACHERS
APPEARENCE

Stewart, 2005:
Teachers appearance :personality or traits
that reflect the success of a professional
teacher
(responsible, creative, empathetic nature
and
professionalism)
Appearance : how someone presents
: show an admirable and noble
character

A teacher
should :
open, able to
accept opinions
engage in
dialogue
professionally
well-mannered
able to raise
pleasant effect

APPEARA
NCE
APPEARANCE
FOR
DIFFERENCES
- Skill in
recognizing the
pupils
- (socio-economic
background,
culture, religion
and gender)

DEMOCRACY
APPEARANCE
IN DIALOGUE
- Communicat
e effectively

- Upholds pure
democracy and
practices in daily
life
- Equal opportunities

DISILLUTIONMENT
- Perceptions about
his actions
- Sensitive to the
diversity in the
environment

BUSINESS IN SCHOOL
Teacher should fulfil their
responsibility as a teacher
Eager to conduct businesses and
forget about the responsibilities
Violating the school ethics of
public service
Teacher who indulge in business :
reprimaded by administration and
appropriate action should be taken

PART TIME CAREER

Educators- civil servants ( subjected to the
rules of the Government General Orders)
Apply permission to work part-time
Teachers must adhere to the Code of Ethics
for Teacher
Make sure the job is not implemented
during working hours & does not affect
his official work
For example : conducting tuition

TIME MANAGEMENT
Effective planning of time
Encompasses 2 dimensions :
i. Management of teachers time
ii. Instilling the importance of time
management among the pupils
. Consistent in its implementation.
( plan teaching and learning time )

FINANCIAL
MANAGEMENT

Categorised into 2 aspects :

Managing
money while
working
- Collection of suwa
like pupils fees,
donation, public
donation. (honest)
- Teacher must be
accountable for
funds collected

Managing
personal and
family finance
- Practice moderation
- Be cautions when shopping, do
not indulge in extravagant
lifestyle
- Differentiate between needs and
luxuries
- Spending wisely
- Need to save for future

TUTORIAL
- Music box
- Mini simulations