Teaching is considered a professional

field of work.
However, there are certain parties who think
otherwise.

Amirah Afiqah
Derolin Muani
Muhammad Nazri
 Couldn’t meet
Considered
the criteria of Restricted
“semi-
professionalism autonomy
professional”
wholly
 Autonomy

Profession

Behavior Qualification
 Autonomy

Even though the individual autonomy is under the

organizational control and monitored by the administrations
in the aspects of performance and standards, beyond that it is
the professional's job to determine how best to deliver that
curriculum to the students in the classroom.
 Qualification

professional teacher refers to the

status of a person who is paid to
professionalism is measured by
teach’; on a higher level, it can
the best and the highest
refer to teachers who represent
standards
the best in the profession and set
(Phelps, 2006) the highest standards
(Tichenor and Tichenor, 2005)
 Qualification

There are also para-professional teachers, these may be

teachers who do not have the formal training or
qualifications as a teacher but because of skills or abilities
they are hired and paid as teachers. In these instances if
these individuals had prolonged training and formal education
in their fields while they may not be qualified teachers, they
could still be considered in the teaching profession.
 Professional Behavior

orientation primarily to community

interest rather than to individual
self-interest
(Barber, 1965)
 Professional Behavior

So far, teachers obviously fulfill the criteria stated before. But

on the other hand, the statement is a subjective matter to
discuss as we do not have any tools to measure intentions and
interests. Hence, it wouldn’t make teaching as a profession
any less.