Professionalism in teaching involves exhibiting courteous, conscientious, and business-like behaviors and attitudes. Teachers are expected to develop professional relationships with colleagues characterized by behaviors regarded as professional rather than unprofessional. Jewish educators may face specific challenges with professionalism dealing with balancing moral, spiritual, ethical and personal values with their professional roles. How an educator's personal values and attitudes shape their view of professionalism must be considered.

1. Professionalism

2. What is professionalism?
What do you think is meant by the term professionalism?
What types of behaviours and attitudes you would expect to see from
professionals?
Specifically, what types of behaviours and attitudes you would expect
to see from professional teachers?

3. What is professionalism?
You may have included some or all of the following in your notes:
A person engaged in a profession, for example, lawyers, surveyors and
accountants
A person with a professional qualification, for example, lawyers, surveyors and
accountants
Synonyms: white-collar worker · professional worker ( not a teacher)
A person engaged in a specified activity, especially a sport, as a main paid
occupation rather than as a pastime.

4. Definition of professional
1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a profession
2. Engaged in one of the learned profession
3. Professions characterized by or conforming to the technical
or ethical standards of a profession
4. Exhibiting a courteous, conscientious, and generally
business like manner in the workplace

5. Developing professional relationships with
colleagues
What types of behaviours shown by and/or between colleagues in a
school do you regard as professional, or unprofessional?
Complete the quiz titled Professional or Unprofessional.

6. What challenges do Jewish educators face when
confronted with the concept of professionalism?
Within the Jewish educational world, are there any specific challenges
that educators face when dealing with the concept of professionalism?
If so, what are these?
Why do these particular challenges exist?
How should they be tackled?
Post your thoughts on the forum

7. What challenges Jewish educators face when confronted with
the concept of professionalism?
Moral Spiritual
Ethical Personal
Professionalism

8. Personal values and attitudes
Our personal values and attitudes shape our behaviour and are likely to
influence our view of what professionalism means.
Let’s take a look at some of your attitudes and values. Please complete
the quiz titled Attitudes and Values.
Once you’ve answered the questions, take some time to reflect on what
it says about you as a person and how that might influence your
behaviour as a teacher.

9. How are Jewish schools different from secular
schools?
Are staff expected to behave differently?
How?
Why?
Is there a difference in expectations between a Jewish and
secular school?