Tutorial 1

Question 2: What can a teacher do to achieve professionalism?

Educational needs and demands are always changing depends on the current situation.
Teachers in 21st century are to think of having the knowledge and skills that are equivalent to current
demands. There are certain ways for teachers to achieve professionalism to improve their
performance. The ways to achieve professionalism will be introduced and briefly explained in this
essay.

The first way for teachers to achieve professionalism is by developing and applying standards
for teachers. There are no clear standards defining quality professional development. By making
teachers achieve the standards, this will increase their competency level of input and content of a
teacher. Hence, the teachers will be aware of current educational situation and adapt to it based on
the needs.

Secondly, teachers take part in programmes that involve collaboration. Collaborating with
colleagues will encourage them to share ideas and experience which can improve their effectiveness
in teaching which can results in students’ improvement. This can be implement by encouraging them
to do classroom visits among their colleagues to improve teachers’ professionalism.

Lastly teachers can achieve professionalism by making use of Information and Communication
Technology (ICT) to provide access to content, professional development and professional learning
communities. Using technology can improve teachers’ professionalism which previously are in
available forms such as audio-learning for teachers in restricted area, videos for teachers’ self-study
and sharing of teaching models and technique.

As a conclusion, teachers can achieve professionalism in many ways. As stated above, they
can improve their professionalism if they follow the standards create by the stakeholders, collaborate
with their colleagues an implementing ICT to become more competent.
Tutorial 2

Question: To what extend is teaching considered a professional career? Give your views and support
with examples.

In my point of view, teaching is a professional career as it is based on a specialization on a

certain field, teaching skills, didactics certain personal characteristics required by the profession. In
this essay, the reasoning of to what extend teaching can be considered as a professional career will
be discussed.

Firstly, credential and licensing requirements are crucial to enter a profession. There will be
certain credentials to be teacher trainee and the license which will be given when they finished the
study, a qualification or certificate. They undergo 5 years of training in order to achieve the
qualification which determined teaching as a professional career.

Professional development support also makes teaching as professional career since the
teachers undergo training for beginners and it requires in-service development and growth
throughout their careers. Teachers will still undergo certain training, course and workshops during
the service for content and skill enrichment such as ICT course and sports workshops which is fully
support by the government, Ministry of Education.

Lastly, as they shows their professionalism criteria there is a limitation for them as their
authority is restricted in their own classroom only. Teachers can have full control towards their
classroom to determine their teaching materials and strategies. This is not applicable for other
aspects as it will be controlled by the headmaster.

As a conclusion, the teaching is a professional career as they require certain credentials and
received the qualification to teach and their still undergo certain course during service for
enrichment. There are certain limitations that they could not ignore however does not affect their
professionalism.