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HO CHI MINH UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY

OFFICE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDY PROGRAMS

THE IMPORTANCE OF PROFESSIONAL ETHICS IN TEACHING PROFESSION

PERCEPTION ABOUT PROFESSIONAL ETHICS OF TEACHERS

&

CONSENQUENCES FROM THE ABSENCE OF PROFESSIONAL

ETHICS IN TEAHCING STYLE

STUDENT NAME & ID: Nguyễn Trần Hiếu Bảo- 1852266

We would like to express my deepest appreciation to all those who supported me in order to complete this report successfully, especially our lecturer, Mrs Le Thi Thanh Xuan Thanks to the help of Mrs Xuan, we have a great opportunity to expand our understanding of Business Ethics & Corporate Social Responsibilities (BE&CSR)

The essay is enriched by the feedback of the lecturer and some academic references We would also like to acknowledge with much appreciation the crucial role of them, and during this essay,

we will provide briefly the theory of BE&CSR, and how we can apply it to analyze realistic situation Last but not least, I have to appreciate the guidance given by other supervisors as well

as Mrs Xuan especially in our project presentation that has improved our presentation skills thanks to their comments and advice

This paper illustrates the importance of Business Ethics (or Professional Ethics specifically) on the development of teaching industry in Vietnam

It begins with describing what is Business Ethics based on the basis of Oxford Shorter Dictionary as well as the related theory about Theories of Ethics, then clarifying the typical problem of the teaching style nowadays with specific case analysis, following with the summary

of lesson learned and some comments on the sustainable advancement for the teaching industry

in general and for teacher specifically to enhance the effectiveness of this business in Vietnam

Table of contents

Acknowledgements i

Abstract ii

Table of Contents iii

I INTRODUCTION 1

II LITERATURE REVIEW AND RESEARCH QUESTION 2

III METHODOLOGY 6

IV FINDING 7

V EVALUATION AND CONCLUTION 10

In this today's globalized and competitive world, we are on the scene of various changes in our educational system Considering this inescapable transition, the objectives and aims of education are changing in consonance with the need, requirements, and interests of learners or the community as a whole In this present-day, teachers carry many duties and responsibilities to play Aside from possessing good academic knowledge and professional qualifications, they should also hold a significant understanding of their Professional Ethics Professional Ethics is a guide to provide great education and enlighten the core values among students Teachers always have a vital role in bringing fascinating changes in the behavior of their colleagues Professional Ethics further remind teachers what their profession truly is, and why they have such a meaningful role to play Together with that, teachers should ensure what they create and contribute to their students must always in the Professional Ethics: Treat learners with true love, care, kindness, and engagement Teachers are not simply just a typical name for whom help students to acquire knowledge, competence, or virtue, but they are also the one carrying the role

of creating personality and morality of learners Once again, teaching is something beyond giving educational knowledge to students, it builds and shapes the person from inside out Professional Ethics is a golden key that contributes a significant role in bringing development

to society, without them informational process cannot fulfill their function properly Since teachers having a massive burden of building desirable changes in the students’ behavior upon their shoulders, they should understand and realize their profession

Eventually, the absence of Professional Ethics would have an unsatisfactory impact on the development of students Teachers should be a role model for their students, learners follow the steps which teachers create and impart to them, which means teachers are not going to have just ample of degrees, achievements, medals, extra qualifications or useful knowledge, they also demand to possess good teaching style and always hold the intention: Teaching is not for them, but their students Nowadays, people usually misunderstand the concept of a good teacher, they normally think of someone with a variety of knowledge is the best teacher, and forget about the compelling role of ethics in teaching The first and foremost vital quality that the teacher should possess is Professional Ethics There are a majority number of teachers in a practical situation facing the problem of adjustment in schools or life There could be many factors driving teachers away from the main meaning of teaching: The burden of generating money for their living, teaching is just simply a job finding money, the living standard is increasing day by day, etc Since their goals and objectives of teaching are pushed to limit, people might have different ways

of teaching, hence, creating the problem of teaching for the money If teachers fail to understand and implement Professional Ethics, they will hamper the students’ performance Following, there will be a numerous problem occur with scholars since teachers play a fundamental role in learners’ character formation

Hence, there are more and more teachers hold a viewpoint that teaching is just simply a money-finding job, they normally ignore the importance of Professional Ethics in their duties Continuously develop ethical thinking in the teaching industry becomes a very momentous issue This essay aims to draw out and analyze some perceptions about the Professional Ethics of teachers nowadays and the consequences appearing from the absence of Professional Ethics in their teaching style To make the above notion more accurate, there will be a significant case about the wrong teaching style to analyze and consider the consequences as well as the solution

to erase or reduce the rate of missing Professional Ethics in the teaching profession

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1 Profession

a Definition

learning or science” (Oxford Shorter Dictionary)

To be a member of a profession is to:

• Have specialized knowledge and skill

• Have power of knowledge and the capacity to affect society

• Have autonomy of practice This varies according to employment context

• Have a monopoly or near monopoly of a particular skill

• Have undergone an extensive period of training that includes not simply skills, but a strong intellectual element

• To be a member of a professional body that is responsible for regulating standards, protecting rights or practice and ensure proper training

group positions itself as possessing special knowledge and skills in a widely recognised body of learning derived from research, education and training at a high level, and is recognised by the public as such A profession is also prepared to apply this knowledge and exercise these skills in the interest of others

ethics, and profess commitment to competence, integrity and morality, altruism, and the promotion of the public good within their expert domain Professionals are accountable to those served and to society

b Qualities of a professional practitioner of all disciplines

It is said that the professional engineer, in common with professional practitioners of all disciplines, need six qualities:

• Integrity, openness and honesty, both with themselves and with others

• Independence, to be free of secondary interests with other parties

• Impartiality, to be free of bias and unbalanced interests

• Responsibility, the recognition and acceptance of personal commitment

• Competence, a thorough knowledge of the work they undertake to do

• Discretion, care with communication, trustworthiness.

2 Professional Ethics

a Definition

Professional ethics are principles that govern the behaviour of a person or group in a business environment Like values, professional ethics provide rules on how a person should act towards other people and institutions in such an environment

b Factors affected to Professional Ethics

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a Definition

A code of ethics is a guide of principles designed to help professionals conduct business honestly and with integrity A code of ethics document may outline the mission and values of the business

or organization, how professionals are supposed to approach problems, the ethical principles based on the organization's core values, and the standards to which the professional is held Information containing in the professional ethical codes:

• Responsibility to the profession

• Responsibility to oneself

• Responsibility to the employer, with the member acting as an employee

• Responsibility to client

• Responsibility to the other individual members of the group or profession

• Responsibility to the community

• Responsibility to the environment

• Responsibility to other groups or professions

• Responsibility of confidentiality

• Statements of how it will be determined if members have broken the institution’s ethical guidelines, and the consequences if they are shown to have done so

b Code of ethics for teachers

According to The National Education Association:

PRINCIPLE I

COMMITMENT TO THE STUDENT

The educator strives to help each student realize his or her potential as a worthy and effective member of society The educator therefore works to stimulate the spirit of inquiry, the acquisition

of knowledge and understanding, and the thoughtful formulation of worthy goals

In fulfillment of the obligation to the student, the

educator 1 Shall not unreasonably restrain the student from independent action in the pursuit of learning.

2 Shall not unreasonably deny the student's access to varying points of view.

3 Shall not deliberately suppress or distort subject matter relevant to the student's progress.

4 Shall make reasonable effort to protect the student from conditions harmful to learning or to health and safety.

5 Shall not intentionally expose the student to embarrassment or disparagement.

6 Shall not on the basis of race, color, creed, sex, national origin, marital status, political or religious beliefs, family, social or cultural background, or sexual orientation, Exclude any student from participation in any program

Deny benefits to any student

Grant any advantage to any student

7 Shall not use professional relationships with students for private advantage.

8 Shall not disclose information about students obtained in the course of professional service unless disclosure serves a compelling professional purpose or is required by law.

PRINCIPLE II

COMMITMENT TO THE PROFESSION

The education profession is vested by the public with a trust and responsibility requiring the highest ideals of professional service

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In the belief that the quality of the services of the education profession directly influences the nation and its citizens, the educator shall exert every effort to raise professional standards, to promote a climate that encourages the exercise of professional judgment, to achieve conditions that attract persons worthy of the trust to careers in education, and to assist in preventing the practice of the profession by unqualified persons

In fulfillment of the obligation to the profession, the

educator 1 Shall not in an application for a professional position deliberately make a false statement or fail to disclose a material fact related to competency and qualifications.

2 Shall not misrepresent his/her professional qualifications.

3 Shall not assist any entry into the profession of a person known to be unqualified in respect to character, education, or other relevant attribute.

4 Shall not knowingly make a false statement concerning the qualifications of a candidate for

a professional position.

5 Shall not assist a noneducator in the unauthorized practice of teaching.

6 Shall not disclose information about colleagues obtained in the course of professional service unless disclosure serves a compelling professional purpose or is required by law.

7 Shall not knowingly make false or malicious statements about a colleague.

8 Shall not accept any gratuity, gift, or favor that might impair or appear to influence professional decisions or action.

4 Types of professional- customer relationship

Customer has the knowledge and skill to analyse, consider alternatives, decide and become educated Or, Professional has knowledge to meet his own need and solve his own problem, but lacks some resources – time, or physical skill

- The paternalistic relationship:

Professional has responsibility to analyse from the problem of client, to consider alternatives, and to decide upon one or more of the alternatives

Client – only in implementation, not consider alternatives, not be educated

Customers possesses a rather high level knowledge of the problem area in the first place

A contract – a legal entity, enforced by the power of legal system

Responsibility may evolve and change from time to time without any explicit contract Customer trusts the professional because of some connection, some confidence, independent of the customer-professional relationship

Professional: analyse the customer’s problem, lay out the available alternatives and advice about them, educate customers as necessary, implement some of all decisions Customer: Customer uses professional’s knowledge to understand his/her need - Customer uses professional’s superior expertise - Customer relies upon skills and resources professional has - Considerable degree of customer freedom

5 Some related theories of ethics.

a Deontological theories: The ethics of the act itself and its rational motivation

Deontological theory is the normative ethical theory that the morality of an action should be based on whether that action itself is right or wrong under a series of rules, rather than based on

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the consequences of the action It is sometimes described as duty obligation, - or rule-based ethics

• Focus on what human can be fully responsible for

• An ethical choice is expressed in universal terms

• Categorical imperative

• To be really effective it requires managers to have a keen sense of rightness and wrongness

b Consequentialist theories: Evaluating choices in terms of the outcomes they bring

about

Consequentialist theories: The ethics of an action is to be evaluated and judged in terms of the consequences it carries

• Stems from a natural instinct that humans have

• In direct contrast with deontology, where some acts are wrong no matter what the consequences

• Best known example of consequentialism is utilitarianism – the view that an action is right

if it promotes the greatest good for the greatest number of people

• Its greatest weakness is its failure to adequately explain what counts as the basic values against all action are to be evaluated

6 Stakeholder theory

interest in a particular organisation It is often meaningful to separate groups of stakeholders intro sub-categories with similar, but not identical, interests Individuals and groups may have multiple interests in an organisation and therefore belong to various stakeholder clusters

of actors accomplish multiple and sometimes conflicting purposes

Approach to strategic management: Stakeholder theory explicitly take into account the

strategic threats and opportunities that arise from the claims and expectations placed on the company by various social and political actors

Framework of corporate social responsibility: Stakeholder theory provides a way to

frame and assess society’s values and expectations of business Managers also seem to understand the concept of stakeholder management better than the concept of corporate social responsibility

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III METHODOLOGY

This report is mainly conducted from secondary data sources:

1 Section II Literature Review and Research Question:

The methodology using to collect information for this section mostly from two sources:

Literature data from the book of Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibilities (BE&CSR) by Paul Griseri and Nina Seppala, and the other is from the information updated on

the Internet

- From the book BE&CSR: To search for the good information with best accuracy closest

to the report objective, this book is really a good option for me to look for literature data This report consumes the authors’ data sources in:

• 1.a.: The definition of Profession from Oxford Shorter Dictionary.

• 1.b.: The six qualities of professional practitioners

• : The definition as well as the factors affect to Professional Ethics.2.

• 3.a.: The definition of Ethical codes

• : The five types of professional- customer relationship.4.

• 5.: The related theories of ethics.

- From the Internet: Section II consumes information from the Internet in:

• 1.a.: The definition of profession- This information is widely expressed in a variety of definition, fining the most accurate data to conduct this report requires a well-known site with clarified and trusty material After opening Google.com, typing the keyword “what

is a profession?” Following, the first page appeared on the top would always be the first option, since it has the highest number of access times, plus it is commonly known as the site with best prestige and reputation so the information included in always reliable

Then, Professional Standards Councils is the site appeared with all the requirements

mentioned

• 3.b.: The code of ethics for teacher- This data-searching process is pretty much the same with 1.a., but requiring to look all over the sites appeared in the first place to pick the right one Since the code of ethics is different in every country due to the

acknowledgement, understanding, and culture discrepancies That is the reason why we should search for information from the biggest organization that data arrived from The

code of ethics for teacher from National Education Association would be the best option.

2 Section IV Findings:

• Section : The case about taking bribe and fixing the National Examination scores- 3.

This case is really popular in Vietnam, since the media has a significant development there is a lot of trusty site, such as: Vnexpress, Kenh14, etc All of the data conducted from those sites receive a very high feedback about their transparency information

1 Perceptions about Professional Ethics of teachers in the present-day

Professional Ethics in this world of globalization and competitive is like a guide, which facilitates the teacher to offer quality education and inculcate good values among learners Plus,

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