Professional Teacher.

What are the characteristics of a professional teacher or educator?

In Early Childhood Education, the term of professional refers to an intrinsic code of ethics, values, commitment and responsibilities that guide thoughts and actions. We learned this during "Becoming an Early Childhood Professional" class. We also did an assignment on it in a group of 5 and the assignment require us to sort of promote Early Childhood Education. We also describe each letter in Professional and we came out with this with the other members of the group.

P - PATIENCE

R - RESPONSIBILITY

O - OBSERVANT

F - FLEXIBILITY

E - ENTHUSIASM

S - SENSITIVE

S - SELF-DISCIPLINE

I - INITIATIVE

O - OPTIMISM

N - NON-JUDGMENTAL

A - AWARENESS

L - LEADERSHIP

Teacher can be sensitive (emotional) here because they are being with children and children always needs comfort when they are away from their parents. It's important for teachers not to be judgmental and non-bias because we have to be fair and give equity to all children despite their different background, races and culture. Leadership is always needed because teacher needs to lead the large group of children while being observant. We think these characteristics are needed to be a professional teacher/educator it because to keep the standard and quality. Besides that, it's also to gain trust from parents and their children.