How Teachers Become Instrumental in Making Students Imbibe Values, Morals and Ethics in Their Day-to-day Routine.

Education renders a prime service to the society. With trainings and just preparations, it delivers satisfaction in every life it touches through experiences. Educational experiences presumably promote the intellectual openness, flexibility, and breadth of perspective essential for self-direction values (Schooler, 1983). As people in the academe, teachers expose and propagate needed knowledge as well as values that children will need to survive their lives’ everyday struggle.

Teachers’ basic but tedious job is to disseminate education to our children. They tend to facilitate learning in many ways. They encourage children to go to school as it is the prime factor to elevate lives to a more beautiful experience.  Moreover, teachers are instruments of education to lead children to a better life. What they offer in school are experiences that students will eventually use in the future. It will mold them to face challenges that will be present in their lives. Above all these, teachers must be ethical.

Educators must be ethical in every single thing they do in school and also in their own houses. Apart from student’s parents, teachers are also the role models that they imitate. In order to be a good role model, teachers must know and do the right and just deeds mandated by their job and the Higher Order. According to Hill IV and Zinsmeister, some basic ethical codes are (1) ethical teachers should have disciplinary competence or they must be expert on what they teach; (2) teach effectively through effective pedagogy. In other words, teachers must use appropriate instructional strategies to certain group of students or he/she must use varieties of instructional materials to accommodate multiple intelligences; (3) ethical teachers must provide balanced content and free inquiry or he/she must give concepts/perspectives that will encourage students to use their mind critically in different points of view; (4) Must respect students. not only students will respect the teachers but also the teachers do vice versa; (5) ethical teachers foster academic integrity, must promote honesty and no plagiarism rule; (6) use objective and fair assessment so that students are treated equally and be given fair grades; (7) ethical teachers must protect their student’s confidentially. They also tend to do a job like of a priest. They keep in secret things that he/she and his/her students tackle regarding their education; and (8) they also have professionally appropriate relationships with their students. They must have a business-like relationship though they cater personal problems too with their students. All in all, teachers must be proactive, have professional development and promote transformational leadership in their schools. Most of all, they should have a high regard to our Maker, that they give all the glory to Him in all their deeds and tasks.

By these codes of conduct of teachers, children will adhere and copy what they see and observe teachers do. In the future, these children will give and become a good contribution to the society.