Professional Competence

3.1 You should maintain and develop your professional practice to ensure you continue to meet the requirements of the Standard for Full Registration:

• Professional knowledge and understanding
• Professional skills and abilities
• Professional values and commitment

3.2 You should refresh and develop your knowledge and skills through Continuing Professional Development and maintenance of reflective good practice

Commentary

Professional knowledge and understanding

As a registered teacher you should have:

A detailed knowledge and understanding of the relevant areas of the pre-school, primary or secondary school curriculum and also an understanding of curriculum development.

This should include a broad, critical understanding of the principal features of the education system, policy and practice and a detailed knowledge of sector and professional responsibilities within these.

Professional values and commitment

As a registered teacher you should:

Be able to show in your day-today practice a commitment to social justice and inclusion, take responsibility for you own professional learning and development and be an active partner in the communities in which you work

Professional skills and abilities

As a registered teacher you should be able to:

• plan coherent and progressive teaching programmes to match pupils' needs and abilities and be able to communicate clearly using a variety of media to interact with pupils, individually and collectively
• set and maintain the expectations and pace of learning of pupils
• use a range of teaching strategies and resources to evaluate the needs and abilities of pupils
• manage classes and resources to achieve safe, orderly and purposeful activity
• manage pupil behaviour in a fair and consistent manner
• understand and apply principles of assessment, recording and reporting
• use the results of assessment to evaluate and improve your teaching and the learning of your pupils
• reflect on and act to improve your own professional practice, contribute to your professional development and engage in the process of curriculum development
  

Back to the Draft Code of Professionalism and Conduct.