‘Professional’ means that the practitioner takes on a serious commitment to one’s career and acts with integrity, maturity, reasonableness, and empathy.  Professionalism in the context of teaching means being able to support learners in a way that is mature and healthily distant while carrying out the duties and functions of the teacher.  Semi-professionalism – in the context of teaching – means that the teacher is able not to get too close to the student, but is still willing to create a less formal air in the relationship.

My educational commitments will be influenced by my membership in professional bodies in the sense that I will probably feel inclined to behave more professionally because of sheer admittance in a professional body that would be pushing such a mentality.