What is teacher professionalism?
Teaching is an intellectual profession, based on a high degree of general and systematised knowledge. This includes an in-depth knowledge of: • Learning: how pupils learn, potential obstacles to learning, pre-conditions and dispositions to learning; how learning develops; and… • Curriculum content: knowledge of subjects and the relationships between them, understanding of wider content such as the development of thinking skills, problem solving, questioning and group working, and a knowledge of how pupils’ understanding of particular content grows and develops. The teaching profession is also practical, and has a wide range of practices and methods. Teaching has a basis in care and responsibility for pupils’ learning, leading to the need for knowledge and understanding of particular pupils as individuals, their interests, needs and potential obstacles to learning, knowledge developed through assessment and through relationships with pupils, families, communities and other professiona
