Components of the Teachers’ Ethics in Senior Secondary Students: An Exploratory Study from the Dance Teachers Perceptions

The quality of education and performance of students depend on the teachers as reflected in the discharge of their duties. Teaching should be regarded as a profession: it is a form of public service which requires teacher’s expert knowledge and specialized skills, acquired and maintained through rigorous and continuing study; it calls also for a sense of personal and corporate responsibility for the education and welfare of the pupils in them accuse. Teachers’ professional ethics have significant relationship with students’ performance. Such professional ethics include teachers’ knowledge of the subject matter, communication ability, emotional stability, good human relationship and interest in the job. In Sri Lanka, considering government great investment in education, its output with regard to the quality of students has not been commensurate with the expenditure. The senior secondary students’ performance such as discipline, academic achievement and values has been declining at an alarming rate. But sufficient qualified teachers are there in Sri Lanka. Teachers’ professional ethics have been known to have important influence on students’ performance and they also play a crucial role in educational attainment because the teacher is ultimately responsible for translating educational policies and principles into actions based on practice during interaction with the students. Both teaching and learning depend on teachers: no wonder an effective teacher has been conceptualized as one who produces desired results in the course of his duty as a teacher. Therefore, the major purpose of the study was to identify components of the teachers’ ethics in senior secondary students, from the teachers’ perceptions in Sri Lanka. The study was mainly qualitative and used the inductive approach. Questionnaire was used to gather data from 1400 participants. Numbers of teachers were considered three main Contextual themes such as Student and Teacher Relationships and the Effect on Student Learning, Teacher efficacy and classroom management and Teaching Method. The findings of the study showed that there were several factors; conducted to teachers’ ethics, that contribute towards students’ performance. The study, recommends that teacher’s Ethics, availability of resources involvement are critical for the attainment of high quality education in secondary schools in Sri Lanka.