Teacher Professional Ethics

Abstract

Teachers are professional educators with the main task of educating, teaching, guiding, directing, training, assessing, and evaluating students in early childhood education through formal education, basic education, and secondary education. Professional teachers should be able to assume and carry out their responsibilities as teachers to their students, parents, community, nation, state, and religion.

The teachers’ duties and responsibilities are to teach students and also guide them as a whole so that a Muslim personality is formed. In carrying out their duties and responsibilities, teachers have rights in the form of income, promotions, opportunities to increase competence, utilize learning facilities and infrastructure, freedom to give assessments, gain a sense of security, freedom of association, opportunities to play a role in determining educational policies, developing qualifications and competencies, and training and professional development.