Professional Behavior for Teachers
Let's Talk About Professional Behavior for Teachers!
If you or I go to the local community college
to take a few courses to get up to date on
computer technology, we want the instructor
to teach computer technology. We want to learn
the subject we enrolled in.
We do not want our Information Technology
instructor to lecture us on politics or religion
or patronize us in any way. Likewise,
a teacher of high school subjects is teaching
physics, math, social studies, or language.
The teacher is not the students' pal, clergyman,
attorney, or political activist.
It is a professional relationship and
to pretend that teachers can fulfill these
many different roles is misleading, immature
and dishonest. The teacher's mandate,
the teacher's task, the teacher's assignment,
the teacher's professional duty is to teach
the relevant subject matter in a friendly
and professional manner.