Educators act ethically and maintain the integrity, credibility and reputation of the profession.
Throughout my teacher training and practicum experiences, I have comported myself in a thoroughly professional manner. While in the schools, I maintained a clean-cut and professional appearance, and frequently sought the advice and guidance both of other teacher candidates and of more experienced professionals. Every communication with students’ family members was strictly professional in tone and content, and vetted by a coaching teacher to ensure that professional standards were maintained.
In my prior experience as a teacher I have found myself in potentially difficult disagreements with coworkers, all of which I navigated in a suitably mature, rational, and repsectful fashion which respects both appropriate procedures and the feelings of all involved. When students have approached me with something, or I have noticed something about a student, which requires attention and guidance beyond that which I am capable of providing, I have always been prompt in seeking assistance for them from qualified personnel.
While I have grown much as an educator over the past few years, and while I am still growing as an educator today, the one constant has been that my ethics have been above reproach throughout.