Work Ethics for Teachers and Teaching of Work Ethics

Teachers’ work covers many things: ethics is one of them. For teachers, ethics is more than just a code of ethics which does no more than codify a set of principles and rules which serve aspirational and/or disciplinary purposes. Teachers, as professionals, are engaged in one of the most ethically demanding jobs, the education of young people; thus it is that teachers need to constantly reflect on the ethics of their activities to ensure that in their work they exhibit the best ethical example possible to those they are morally educating. Leaner's behavior is learned in the educational process. Teaching methods have direct impact on the development of work ethics in students. If teachers are to be ethically aware then there is an important place for the inclusion of ethical content in pre-service teacher education programmes.