The professional ethics for teachers: perspective directions of the professional development system

The article is devoted to the issues of special importance: developing the professional ethics of teaching staff in their educational activities; the opportunities of applying the Model Code of professional ethics for teachers in teaching practice; promising directions of the professional development system. The author noted that the problem of teachers’ professional ethics for the first time in the history of legislation in the field of education was reflected in the regulatory documents, namely the Federal Law “On Education in the Russian Federation” and professional standard of the teacher. This fact leads to the conclusion that the norms of teachers’ professional ethics pass from moral categories into the moral and legal. The questions of teaching staff’ professional ethics are considered in a close connection with the special status, their rights, peculiarities.