GTC Scotland Code of Professionalism and Conduct

GTC Scotland (GTCS) shall be launching its new Code of Professionalism and Conduct in mid 2008.  This follows a consultation process with the public, parents and alongside the Standard for Full Registration (SfR) the Profession and the Code sets out in clear terms the standard of conduct and competence expected of a registered teacher. 

Together with a commentary on the many issues raised in the Code, there are 4 main sections namely:Professionalism and Maintaining Trust in the Profession; Professional Responsibilities towards Pupils; Professional Competence; Professionalism towards Colleagues and Parents.

This year’s Scottish Learning festival will take place a few months after the launch of the Code and it being rolled out across Scotland. 

Given the ever-increasing importance of child protection and significance of self-regulation in the post-Shipman era, this seminar would raise further awareness of the Code and the principles underpinning it. 

Such a platform would offer an opportunity for debate and provoke thinking in a very important area for the teaching profession.

John Anderson is a secondary teacher having taught in Edinburgh for some 10 years before going to study law at Edinburgh University, graduating in 1991. Thereafter he taught in a number of schools in the former Lothian and Strathclyde Regions.

John was an advisor to the McCrone Implementation Group on teacher salaries and conditions in 2000 and is currently a lay member of the Scottish Solicitors’ Discipline Tribunal, a member of the Education Honours Advisory Committee and the Faculty of Advocates Complaints Committee and Disciplinary Tribunal. 

John is also an assessor to the Office of the Commissioner for Public Appointments in Scotland.After joining the staff of GTC Scotland in 2002, John became Head of Professional Practice in 2006, and is responsible for the disciplinary process in regard to matters of teacher conduct and competence and the associated areas of policy.