Researchers Velasquez, Andre, Shanks, and Meyer (2010) expressed ethics as the prescription of right and wrong principles that humans should endorse and monitor daily, i.e. fairness, integrity, obligations, rights, and benefits to society. Moreover, not succumbing to criminal acts of crime, i.e. murder, stealing, slander, rape, and fraud. Also, ethics refers to the examination and enhancement of one’s ethical standards, moral beliefs, and moral conduct. However, teachers are faced with ethical dilemmas within their daily practice. Some of the issues encountered are discussions of pupils inappropriately, misuse of allocated teaching resources, and failure to maintain familiarity of school policies and procedures (Shapira-Lischinsky …show more content…
The assembly of the educators was to unify their voices as one in the furtherance of public education. As a preeminent professional organization of educators, the National Education Association (NEA) has over 3 million members who express a commitment to developing the underpinning of public education and the rights of all educators and children. The National Education Association believes the Codes of Ethics for educators is foundational for a successful career. The preamble Code of Ethics for …show more content…
Retrieved from www.nea.com While the NEA is a union professional educators organization the Association of American Educators (AAE) is recognized as a non-union professional educators organization. The establishment of the Association of American Educators was founded in 1994 “nationally recognized educators.” Student achievement is the focal point of the organization instead of “partisan politics.” However, the members may seek professional benefits for a nominal fee. A synopsis of the Association of American Educator (AAE) Code of Ethics for educators: • Responsibility to the profession, professional competency, students, and the community. • The teacher is morally obligated to provide students with a quality educational instruction, competent in their subject-matter and arriving to work on regularly and on time. • Educator’s responsibility to the students are respectful of age, gender, socioeconomic status, and culture. • Respecting moral and ethically boundaries that will not impair the well-being of students. • Responsibility to the community lies with informing parents of their child’s development and achievement