personal appearance , Suitable use of language, Keeping professional secret, CO –
operating with other workers are considered social skills. Getting to work on time
Getting to work done before deadlines, Using suitable initiative, Accepting
appropriate responsibility, Accepting suggestions and criticisms. Are personal skills
which can be even considered as Time management, Resource/s management and
Space management.
2.3. Standards
They are the yardstick of our work; they measure the quality of our work. Standards
can be both (a) internal and (b) external as a result we can discriminate between
Mediocrity and Excellence, Complacency and Dynamism and Reactive and Proactive
2.4. Spirit
The major elements of professional spirit are Acceptance, Understanding and
collaboration. Accepting includes the acceptance of situation, and the students,
teachers, principal, administrators and trustees to what he can‟t change. Accepting the
system as a whole and try to understand the limitations and strengths of the
organization and system he tries to achieve the vision and mission of the organization
with a true spirit.
2.5. Supportive Environment
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The environment plays a very important role in performance of a teacher. He works
well in a collegial ( marked by power or authority vested equally in each of a number
of colleagues) manner with colleagues and associates with and learn from positive
mentors if provided a supportive environment.
3. Professional Conduct
Professional conduct is a set of principles of right conduct or a theory or a system of moral
values, moral philosophy which constructs the rules or standards governing the conduct of a
person or the members of a professional organization. This can be referred as code of ethics
too. Such codes for a professional educator can be :
A. Consistently demonstrate professional writing skills- all writing will be evaluated as if
you were a professional educator in a public classroom. Neatness, spelling, grammar,
penmanship, tone, citation and referencing counts.