RULES FOR TEACHERS

Taranaki Daily News, 11 September 1934, Page 11

RULES FOR TEACHERS

CODE DRAWN UP BY INSTITUTE. OPERATION FROM JANUARY. A code naming seven offences against the professional etiquette of teachers has been drawn up by the executive of the New Zealand Educational Institute for the guidance of its members, and is published in the September issue of “National Education, the official organ of the institute. The code will come into operation on January 1, 1935. The folic , ing actions are declared to be unprofessional:— (1) For any teacher to apply for and accept a position - from which; in the judgment of the New Zealand Educational Institute executive, a member of the institute has been unjustly dismissed. (2) For any teacher to make a report on the work or conduct of another teacher without at the time acquainting the teacher concerned with the nature of it, if it be an oral report, or if it be written, without showing it and allowing the teacher concerned to take a copy of it. (3) For any teacher to canvass for scholars either personally, by means of the school staff, by circular, or otherwise.- ■ ■ • (4) For any teacher systematically, and in his professional capacity to instruct scholars on the school premises, before or after school hours, for the purposes of examinations, e.g., proficiency. (5) For any teacher to censure other teachers or to criticise their work in the hearing of the scholars. (C For any teacher to impose upon another teacher, out of the ordinary school hours, an excessive and unreasonable .mount cf work of any kind. (7) For any teacher to be found guilty of conduct detrimental or injurious to .the interests ■ and/or honour of the profession or of the institute,