It was great to hear the presentation from the Teacher Regulation Branch (TRB). It does put the importance of building up professionalism in teaching on a good perspective. However, teaching should not be looked at simply as a profession; and seeing professional as a capital could indeed apply to education.

I see teaching/being an educator as a life style, a capital of a life long investment. The way I see any profession is based on how it could function to better itself. To do so, it is important to constant practice the profession as an educator. In contrast from the business capital approach the article mentioned, building professional capital is not just about teaching students the standard curriculums. It is not just about being literate with subject knowledge and efficient about the transfer of knowledge; although those are important aspects of a professional educator. A majority of the sample cases we looked at during the TRB presentation are quit black and white; especially for the cases where teachers have with sexual relationships with their students. It just troubles my mind that how any teacher would think it is Okay. To grow education as a profession, it is important to build positive role model characters among educators.

The biggest emphasis of TRB is on the safety of students and interest of public; and on the topic of building good role models, this standard from TRB could actually function as a good base liner. As long as we are doing what we can to keep children out of harms way while modeling ways to keep a healthy relationship with our students, I don’t see it to be that hard to build professional capital. As long as I am concerned, it should actually come quit naturally.