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The Ethical Standards for the Teaching Profession and the Standards of Practice for the
Teaching Profession are strengthened and further embodied through the many professional education and learning processes identified in the Professional Learning Framework for
the Teaching Profession. A holistic vision of teacher professionalism (Figure 5) stresses the interrelationships between ethical practice, professional knowledge, skills, values and ongoing professional learning.
The standard of practice, entitled Ongoing Professional Learning, highlights the inherent connection between student learning and professional learning. This standard also explicitly identifies the importance of self-directed professional learning, which is enhanced through lived experience, research and collaboration.
Standard of Practice: Ongoing Professional Learning
Members recognize that a commitment to ongoing professional learning is integral to effective practice and to student learning. Professional practice and self-directed learning are informed by experience, research, collaboration and knowledge.
(Ontario College of Teachers, 2006b)
Together, the ethical standards, standards of practice and the Professional Learning Framework for the Teaching Profession support the capacity for thoughtful, ethical and critically reflective practices and innovations that inform professional practice.
Professional inquiry
A professional inquiry section is included throughout the Professional Learning Framework
for the Teaching Profession document. This inquiry section is designed to invite educators reading this foundational document to reflect upon and further explore their own self- directed professional learning experiences through the various lenses associated with ongoing professional learning and education articulated in the Professional Learning Framework for the Teaching Profession.
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