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When I attended teacher’s college in Ontario, each course that I took reinforced the importance of teachers having integrity and maintaining the standards of the profession. We were taught to adhere to the four ethical standards for the teaching profession as prepared by the Ontario College of Teachers which are care, respect, integrity and trust. More information on these standards can be found at this link<\/a><\/p>\n The British Columbia Teachers Federation also has a code of Ethics for teachers. If any of the following ethical items are breached or in question, there are steps and procedures outlined in the members guide.<\/p>\n www.bctf.ca<\/p><\/div>\n When teachers are hired by the school district, both the teachers’ union and the school district work closely to ensure that teachers are aware of the ethical standards and the potential consequences of behaviour that goes those standards. New teachers attend workshops and are paired with a mentor. Teachers do not receive a yearly evaluation on these standards. A teacher is expected to follow these standards whether school is in session or not. If an issue arises, there are steps and protocol in place for administrators, teachers, the union and the district to follow.<\/p>\n Some school administrators discuss some of these ethical standards at the first staff meeting of the year, (especially if there is a large number of new teachers on staff) but generally, it is expected that teachers are already familiar with them.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hi Leadership Prof, Thank you for your comments and questions regarding ethical standards and monitoring in the teaching profession. When I attended teacher’s college in Ontario, each course that I took reinforced the importance of teachers having integrity and maintaining the standards of the profession. We were taught to adhere to the four ethical standards […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ldrs500","category-unit-7","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/awalkinthewoods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/awalkinthewoods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/awalkinthewoods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/awalkinthewoods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/awalkinthewoods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/awalkinthewoods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/awalkinthewoods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions\/319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/awalkinthewoods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/awalkinthewoods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/awalkinthewoods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/create.twu.ca\/awalkinthewoods\/files\/2018\/06\/Screen-Shot-2018-06-14-at-12.04.23-PM-300x250.png\")