The Teachers’ Role in Developing Student’s Moral and Ethical Values

Abstract

Upbringing as a procedure of creating humans mind and character has always profoundly influenced the youth. Quality teachers are considered to be those individuals whose pedagogy is grounded in values and beliefs that lead to caring positive teacher-student relationships, embedded in trust and high standards of professional ethics. This study explored Macedonian teachers’ attitudes towards introducing Ethical education in the primary education and their competencies for developing students’ moral and ethical values. A Likert scale was used to determine teachers’ attitudes towards interpersonal relationships in the classroom. Research showed that the initial teacher’s education is not enough for quality pedagogical work. Teacher’s ethics contains moral norms regarding his behavior in society, attitude towards students, towards colleagues, towards his own work. The practice implemented by competent teachers is an ideal environment and model for developing the knowledge, skills and abilities that support the ethical concept. Teachers needed continuous professional development throughout the participation in seminars, trainings, courses, and projects that will provide them with the necessary information, knowledge and skills and enable them to compete pedagogically in the field of: intercultural and multicultural education, democratic education, inclusive education, ethical education, global education.

The influence of students’ sense of social connectedness on prosocial behavior in higher education institutions in Guangxi, China: A perspective of perceived teachers’ character teaching behavior and social support

“…In addition, teachers have a modeling role for students in their classes, and different teachers have different patterns of teaching behaviors and dealing with students' behavioral expressions (Asif et al, 2020). Good teacher character teaching behaviors also influence students to develop good character (Cheon et al, 2018;Popovska and Popovski, 2021), and when teachers' teaching behaviors have character characteristics such as reliability, initiative and good interpersonal relationships (Park and Hill, 2020), which can influence students to exhibit more PB (Hannah et al, 2015;Fogelgarn et al, 2021). Thus, teachers who want to improve students' PB should first improve their own moral character.…”