The Degree of Commitment of Primary School Leaders in Dammam to The Ethics of the Education Profession From The Perspective of Teachers

Abstract

The study aimed to recognize the degree of commitment of primary school leaders in Dammam to the ethics of the educational professionfrom the perspectives of teachers in the following fields: (the personal ethics, the professional ethics, the ethics with teachers, the ethics with students, the ethics with parents and local community), and to detect existence of statistically significant differences at the level of (α ≤ 0.05) in the degree of commitment of primary school leaders in Dammam to the ethics of the education profession from the perspectives of teachers attributed to the variables (years of experience, number of training courses in the field of education profession' ethics). In order to achieve the objectives of the study, the descriptive method was used, and the study
sample consisted of (407) male teachers in government primary schools in Dammam. A questionnaire was constructed as aninstrument for collecting data. The study reached a number of important results ،such as the commitment of schools leaders to the educational ethics were high.The descending order of the sections were as follows: the fifth section (the ethics with parents and local community), followed by the fourth section (the ethics with students), followed by the second section (the professional ethics), followed by the first section (the personal ethics), and the third section (the ethics with teachers) was ranked last. Also, There were no statistically significant differences at the level of (α ≤ 0.05) attributed to the variable (years of experience) in the degree of commitment of leaders to the ethics of the education profession from the perspectives of teachers in all sections and in a total degree, except the fourth and fifth sections (ethics with students, ethics with parents and local community),but there were statistically significant differences at the level of (α ≤ 0.05) attributed to the variable (number of training programs in the section of education profession' ethics) in the degree of commitment of leaders to the ethics of the education profession in the fourth and fifth sections (ethics with students, ethics with parents and local community), and in a total degree, while there were no differences in each of the following sections: (the first, second, and third) attributed to this variable.