Teacher as a Professional
... Ellis The Professional Role of the Teacher In order to demonstrate that the role of a teacher is a professional role we must first define the term profession. ... Rich states that a profession: · Requires a high degree of general and systematized knowledge · Required a long period of specialized intellectual training · Is characterized by work that is essentially intellectual · Provides a unique social service · Controls its standards of entrance and exclusion · Develops and enforces a professional code of ethics, and · Grants practitioners a broad range of autonomy Reviewing the criteria above it becomes increasingly obvious that teaching is a true profession. ... A teacher must always strive for more knowledge and new methods of presenting the information. ... Much like a CEO of a huge corporation a teacher has professional responsibilities.