The document outlines the concept of teaching as a profession, highlighting its necessity for advanced education and training. Key characteristics of professions include delivering unique public services, extensive preparation, and reliance on specialized skills. The text emphasizes professional obligations such as maintaining client confidentiality, acting with due diligence, and adhering to ethical standards.

1. Unit 2: PROFESSION AND CONCEPT OF
TEACHING
Instructor : TANZELA BASHIR

2. We will learn today about:
◾ Define profession and
professional
◾ Describe characteristics of
profession and professional
◾ Explain assumptions about
teaching
◾ Discuss characteristics of
effective teaching
.
OUTLINES

3. PROFESSION
◾ A profession is a vocation requiring advanced education and
Training (Garner, 2004). It may also be defined as a
learned activity that involves formal training, but
within a broad intellectual context (Bell, 1973).

4. CHARACTERISTICS OF PROFESSIONS
◾ First, professions are based on philosophy acquired through
advanced training.
◾ Second, professionals render unique public services which
require extensive training.
◾ Third, professional work needs thorough preparation
because of its unique nature.
◾ Fourth, professions are based on specialized skill,
◾ Fifth, professional services should be rendered for
the
benefit of the public.

6. REGULATION PERFORMANCE
◾ First, professions offer peer review for the members of the
profession.
◾ Second, professions focus on the duty to serve the good of the
community as a whole and not just one’s own good or that of
one’s clients.
◾ Third, professionals are not allowed to engage in unauthorized
practice.
◾ Fourth, professional evaluation is, in most cases, based on the
standards of malpractice as opposed to negligence so that a
professional will only be held liable where he conducts himself in
a manner that is not befitting to that profession.

7. PROFESSIONAL ADVANCEMENT
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8. FIDUCIARY RELATIONSHIP
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9. PROFESSIONALISM
◾ Professionalism
obligations/responsibilities which
must at all times be
discharged by the professionals
for the benefit of the public
at large. Members of a
profession are bound to
deliver a professional
standard work. This means that
the interests of the clients are
paramount and their work.

10. CONT.…….
The obligation to:
◾ Work with reasonable care or due diligence,
◾ Maintain the client’s information,
◾ Act without negligence,
◾ The satisfaction of the client
◾ Not to engage in malpractice.

11. TEACHING AS PROFESSION

13. PROFESSION AND VOCATION

14. PROFESSION AND VOCATION

16. CHARACTERISTICS OF EFFECTIVE
TEACHING

17. QUESTIONS