Development of the Professional Competence in the Ethics Teachers

The current changes made in the state curriculum, designed for primary and secondary schools in Slovakia, opened the possibility of changes in curriculum innovations in educational ethics and its effective management of pedagogical teaching at the level of the school curriculum. An innovative didactic model of teaching ethics has been developed by the research team aimed at implying expectations for the ethics teacher competence as a basis for its targeted and effective professional development through the self and continuing education. As we define the theoretical framework of the ethics teacher professionalization, we also present competency profile of the ethics teacher created by an expert and principles of continuous learning paradigm based on humanistic and constructivist pedagogy.