Professional Competence and Ethics of Teachers Attributes for Quality Education in the case of PGDT in Wollega Zones
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professional competence, quality education, indicators,, professional ethicsAbstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate how professional competence and professional ethics contribute for the improvement of quality of education. To look at these phenomena post graduate diploma complete teachers who have served for one and above years and working in Wollega zones were randomly selected. Accordingly123 teachers and 204 students were selected as the sample of the study. After collecting the data through questionnaire descriptive measures, correlation and multiple regression statistical analysis were computed to notice the result. Descriptive statistics summarizes the demographic variables of participants. Pearson product moment correlation results revealed positive relationship between professional ethics and quality of education (r= .32), while strong positive correlation between professional competence and quality of education (r=.81) was found. Multiple regression analysis result also showed significant contribution of professional competence (54.6 % with F (1, 120) = 187.753 < .001) and some amount of professional ethics (4.6%with F change (1, 121) = 19.398 < .034) for the variance of quality of education. Hence it was recommended that teachers have to be professionally competent and ethical to be knowledgeable, guided and act properly in socially and morally acceptable manner to teach students effectively that may contribute lot to the quality of education. Teaching is a complex tax that needs content knowledge, teaching skill and well preparation, thus teachers have to have adequate knowledge, skills and preparation for their class in order to present the lesson clearly, correctly and logicallyrelating to the real environment. Moreover, teachers have to aware that there is individual difference and support those students who need special attention. Furthermore, professional teaches have to create wholesome and conducive classroom atmosphere and employ different method of teaching to instill knowledge, skills, values and attitudes to their students.
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