...Conduct PRINCIPLE I: Ethical Conduct toward Students The professional educator should accept personal responsibility for teaching students character qualities which will help them evaluate the consequences of and accept the responsibility for their actions and choices. Parents are the primary moral educators of their children. Nevertheless, we believe all educators are obligated to help foster civic virtues such as integrity, responsibility, cooperation, loyalty, for human life, for others, and for self. PRINCIPLE II: Ethical Conduct toward Practices and Performance The professional educator does not use institutional or professional privileges for personal or partisan advantage. The professional educator assumes responsibility and accountability for his or her performance and continually strives to demonstrate competence. PRINCIPLE III: Ethical Conduct toward Professional Colleagues The professional educator will not reveal confidential information concerning colleagues unless they are required by law. The professional educator will not willfully make false statements about a colleague or the school system. PRINCIPLE IV: Ethical Conduct toward Parents and Community The professional educator recognizes that quality education is the main common goal of the public, boards of education, and educators, and that a cooperative effort is essential among these groups to attain that goal. The professional educator must understand and respect the values and traditions of the diverse...
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... A teacher must deal with disruptive classroom behavior throughout their career. To do so, they must not only develop their skills in handling these situations but also develop ethical standards for their classroom. These standards set forth by the teacher will help them deal with their students, those students’ parents, the school administrators and their community. There are numerous articles written that could help a teacher when researching any legal or ethical issues that may arise during their teaching career. This paper summarizes four peer-reviewed articles that address the legal and ethical implications for classroom management related to the rights and responsibilities of students, parents and teachers. The first article under review is Public School Law-Teachers and Student’s Rights in which the legal rights of both the teacher and the students are defined. The article also includes the legal liabilities of the teacher in the classroom. The Negligent Tort Law states that a teacher may be held accountable by a court of law if he or she could have foreseen and prevented the injury by exercising proper care (McCarthy & Cambron-McCabe, 1992). The duty of the teacher in the classroom is to protect the students (McCarthy, et.al, 1992). The teacher must take all precautions to unsure that proper care and supervision is given to every student while in the care of the teacher (McCarthy, et.al, 1992). If an accident or injury occurs in the classroom but it could have...
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...Associate Level Material Appendix C Rights and Responsibilities of Educators and Students Perform a search in the University Library databases and locate four school-related court cases (with outcomes decided), two which involve educators as defendants and two which involve students as defendants. Fill in the table below. When you give your informed opinion, state and discuss whether you agree or disagree with the outcome. Base your opinion on legal and ethical standards as discussed in Ch. 9 of the text. If you do not agree with the outcome, explain what would have been just. Base your explanation upon the rights and responsibilities of those involved. Cite your sources in APA format below the table. |Name and Date of Case |Brief Overview of Case |Your Informed Opinion | | |and Outcome | | |Case 1: Educator as Defendant |Justice will decide whether or not school districts may|I agree with the court on thins one. | | |employ policies specifically designed to achieve | | |Name of Case: ...
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...2014 ACA Code of Ethics As approved by the ACA Governing Council AMERICAN COUNSELING ASSOCIATION counseling.org Mission The mission of the American Counseling Association is to enhance the quality of life in society by promoting the development of professional counselors, advancing the counseling profession, and using the profession and practice of counseling to promote respect for human dignity and diversity. © 2014 by the American Counseling Association. All rights reserved. Note: This document may be reproduced in its entirety without permission for non-commercial purposes only. Contents ACA Code of Ethics Preamble • 3 ACA Code of Ethics Purpose • 3 Section A The Counseling Relationship • 4 Section B Section Confidentiality and Privacy • 6 C Professional Responsibility • 8 Section D Relationships With Other Professionals • 10 Section E Evaluation, Assessment, and Interpretation • 11 Section F Supervision, Training, and Teaching • 12 Section G Research and Publication • 15 Section H Distance Counseling, Technology, and Social Media • 17 Section I Resolving Ethical Issues • 18 Glossary of Terms • 20 Index • 21 • 2 • ACA Code of Ethics Preamble The American Counseling Association (ACA) is an educational, scientific, and professional organization whose members work in a variety of settings and serve in multiple capacities. Counseling is a professional relationship that empowers...
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...parents we are considered as the first teachers of our children, we teach our children the learning that we have learned while growing up. Our children and so as we as parents are not perfect, as we do good thing we also commit mistakes and so as our children. It is important that we let them know if what they are doing is right or wrong, because as parents we have this responsibility to our children to guide them become a better person. They look up to us as their role model, and most of them want to follow our foot step. If we will only focus on praising their good deeds or actions, how would they know that not doing bad is as important as doing good. For example, if you caught your child stealing money and you ignore this without even letting him/her know that it is wrong to steal he/she will not know it and he will grow up believing and knowing that stealing is okay and right to do but if the time you caught him stealing and you let him know that it is not good or correct to steal, he will grow up knowing that it is not right thing to do, the act of stealing will not be repeated. This is also the same to educators. As educators we do have a responsibility to our students to let them know the positive and negative actions and the results of each action. We need to teach them and let them feel and realized that positive actions are things to be repeated and negative ones are to be avoided or not...
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...Legal and Ethical Implications for Classroom Management Grand Canyon University- EDU 450 October 12, 2013 As teacher we have legal and ethical right when it comes to classroom management. Students and teachers have a right to learn and teach in a stress free classroom that is not going to cause harm to themselves and others. Within this paper I will discuss four articles that address the legal and ethical implications for classroom management related to the rights and responsibilities of students, teacher, and parents. The first article I read and will discuss is the Rights and Responsibilities of the Teacher and Student by Sarah Ganly. The article talked about the responsibility of the educator in the classroom and the legal rights of the students. The author addresses the liability teachers have and how they are held accountable to a certain degree. For instance, the law states that a teacher is held liable/accountable for a student’s welfare if foreseeable of harm exists (Ganly, 2007). When parents send their children to school as teacher we know students safety is top priority and better known as a legal right for the child. In the same sense parents have the right to enroll their child into a school or program that has their child best interest in mind and make it a priority. Needless to say not everyone is going to always agree on what is unforeseeable and foreseeable incident the same. When incidents occur in the classroom it should looked over individual...
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...Searches without Permission As an educator it is my responsibility to ensure the safety of all of my students, which includes conducting random locker searches without permission. While many people may believe that searching a student’s locker without permission infringes upon the student’s rights, “the Supreme Court decided early on that the need by teachers and administrators to maintain order outweighs the privacy interests of students in a case called New Jersey v. TLO,” (Thiagarajah, 2006). Another thing students and parents may not realize is the lockers are the property of the school, not the student. A random locker search is a necessary measure to help keep weapons and drugs out of the school. It is not a measure to limit the civil rights of the students who attend the school. All teachers have a responsibility to ensure the safety and well being of their students. Performing random locker searches with or without the permission of the students is one of the best ways to provide a safe environment for all students. Although this is a necessary measure, educators and administrators must still have probable cause to search a student’s locker. The U.S. Supreme Court claims that searches are only justified “when there are reasonable grounds for suspecting that the search will turn up evidence that the student has violated or is violating either the law or the rules of the school,” (Thiagarajah, 2006). To avoid violating a student’s rights, a search cannot be conducted...
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...The setting is the faculty room of a typical high school, where four faculty members are sharing school news and airing their concerns during lunch break. English Teacher: I’m getting another special education student next week—with rather severe learning disabilities this time, I’m told. I’ll have this student in my composition and literature classes, along with a student with behavior disorders I’ve been coping with already. On top of that, as you all know, state assessments are coming up and our district curriculum standards committee is in the midst of who-knows-how-many meetings that seem to never end, and on it goes. Geometry Teacher: I hear you. What’s more, our special ed teachers don’t seem to be working with these kids separately like they did when I first started teaching. But that was before inclusion, collaboration, and co-teaching became part of our teaching vocabulary. Music Teacher: And before national “experts” had come up with things like No Child Left Behind and Common Core Standards. English Teacher: Well, anyway, I was told that one of the special ed teachers is coming to our next departmental meeting to consult with us and talk about our roles in helping these students with their special needs. I understand we’re going to be asked to set aside time to collaborate with the special ed teachers. That’s along with all the other things we do, of course. We may even be encouraged to do some co-teaching with other teachers. Physical Education Teacher/Coach: Hmmm...
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... b. Clear and Imminent Danger changed to “ 3. Record Keeping 4. The ACA Code of Ethics serves five main purposes: 5. 1. The Code enables the association to clarify to current and 6. future members, and to those served by members, the 7. nature of the ethical responsibilities held in common by 8. its members. 9. 2. The Code helps support the mission of the association. 10. 3. The Code establishes principles that define ethical behavior 11. and best practices of association members. 12. 4. The Code serves as an ethical guide designed to assist 13. members in constructing a professional course of action 14. that best serves those utilizing counseling services and 15. best promotes the values of the counseling profession. 16. 5. The Code serves as the basis for processing of ethical 17. complaints and inquiries initiated against members 18. of the association. 19. The ACA Code of Ethics contains eight main sections that 20. address the following areas: 21. Section A: The Counseling Relationship 22. Section B: Confidentiality, Privileged Communication, 23. and Privacy 24. Section C: Professional Responsibility 25. Section D: Relationships With Other Professionals 26. Section E: Evaluation, Assessment, and Interpretation 27. Section F: Supervision, Training, and Teaching 28. Section G: Research and Publication 29. A.9.c. Confidentiality 30. Counselors who provide services...
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...locate and review a minimum of four peer-reviewed articles that address the legal and ethical implications for classroom management related to the rights and responsibilities of students, parents, and teachers. Legal and Ethical Implications 2Legal and Ethical Implications for Classroom ManagementWhen in the public schools system there are many right and responsibilities that each person must play there part in as the role of students, teacher, and parents. When reading andreview several articles I came across several issues that pertain and explain those rights andresponsibilities.In the article that¶s titled Rights and Responsibilities of a Teacher and a Student writtenby Sarah Ganly, it address many of the issues that are related to the responsibilities of the teacher in the classroom and many of the rights that students have as well. While some don¶t realize thatone of the main responsibilities of the teacher is to provide a safe learning environment for thestudents and take care of them. Then the article explain the responsibilities of the parents onhow to take their children to a safe school in which they feel as though they are in a safe learningenvironment. In the article, the author talks about the teacher¶s liability and what they are heldaccountable for. Take this for example, Teachers must report any abuse or anything in the relatefield if they think it is happing. This is the law that¶s given from the state. This is all incompliance with the child¶s welfare...
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...abuse to provide a safe nurturing environment that children have a right to. A social worker from child protective services not only has to meet current and specific requirements, but, fulfills certain roles in regards to the clients and...
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...Conferences Professional Development Programs Topics SHARE Print This Page Home Current Issue Archives Buy Contact April 2013 | Volume 70 | Number 7 The Principalship Pages 3440 70th ASCD Annual Conference and Exhibit Show March 21–23, 2015, Houston, Tex. Discover new ideas and practical strategies that deliver real results for students. More How Do Principals Really Improve Schools? Rick DuFour and Mike Mattos Instead of micromanaging teachers, principals should lead efforts to collectively monitor student achievement through professional learning communities. Principals are in a paradoxical position. No Child Left Behind admonished educators to use "scientific, researchbased strategies" to ensure that all students learn. Likewise, Race to the Top requires educators to use "researchbased" school improvement models. Unfortunately, the core strategies of both of these reform initiatives largely ignore this call for practices grounded in research. Principals are being asked to improve student learning by implementing mandated reforms that have consistently proven ineffective in raising student achievement. BUY THIS ISSUE Tweets ASCD @ASCD Check out our recommendations for good reads to start off 2015. ow.ly/GWtaq #ProfDev Retweeted by Deborah Garza, Ed.D. Expand ASCD @ASCD 4h 6h Read Abstract The current emphasis on using more intensive supervision and evaluation of teachers to improve school performance illustrates this irony...
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...Education Philosophy Position Final Paper Michele A. Williams 2012 Educ. 305-D04 LUO As postmodern educators feel their way through an ever changing multicultural classroom environment, it is imperative that each hold firmly to their philosophical positions and do not let society influence them in a negative way. At the same time all teachers should be continually reflecting inwardly to make oneself accountable to their profession. Teachers have a great responsibility to see that every child in their care receive and education based on truth. This only can be achieved by understanding that absolute truth exists. There is a great debate in this country as to whether absolute truth exists. To make that statement that there is no absolute truth is completely illogical. There are indeed absolute realities and standards that define what is true and what is not. Therefore, actions can be deemed right or wrong by how each compares to those absolute standards. Educators have the ability to share the absolute truth to their students in many areas of study. Christian educators believe the Bible when it says that Jesus is “the way, and the truth, and the life” and that He is the ultimate manifestation of truth and the only way one can get to heaven (John 14:6). Another example of the existence of absolute truth is found in the human conscience, that feeling within them that tells them that things should be a certain way that some things are just wrong. In the Holy Bible, book of Romans...
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...over to the teacher’s private life. Parents, administrators and communities expect teachers to be beyond reproach both in and out of the classroom due to the common idea that values and morality are an integral part of teaching. Fair or unfair, teachers are role models for their students 24 hours a day and increased focus on character education in public schools has parents and school boards casting a more scrutinizing look at those individuals expected to teach our children right from wrong. Many wonder how the coach with smokeless tobacco in his mouth during practice can effectively teach students about its dangers in the classroom. If student athletes trying to emulate the coach start using smokeless tobacco, is the coach liable? Legal Issues With regards to the law it can be stated that teachers are privy to the same First Amendment rights as any other citizen. In actuality teachers, especially in small towns, are afforded very limited personal privacy. (Phelps, 2003) Some rights activists argue the unfairness of this higher standard and maintain that teachers should be treated no differently than any other citizen. Yet, many school districts rebut that a teachers actions outside of school are private only when the teacher’s ability in the classroom or the integrity of the school system are not at risk. (Phelps, 2003) Individual states have policies in place stating specifics regarding when teacher licensure can be revoked or a teacher can be dismissed. ...
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...I believe educators need to implement an educational program that reflects the individual needs of children and promotes their beliefs, interests and experiences through play. As an educator, my priority is to provide children with experiences that reflect their identity through learning about their culture, developmental abilities and individuality (ACECQA, 2013, Quality Area 1). In planning for children’s learning, I will ensure that critical reflection and evaluation of the program is continuously documented so that informed curriculum decisions can be made to improve future learning outcomes for children according to the Early Years Learning Framework (ACECQA, 2013, Quality Area 1). I believe that each child has a right to experience quality education and care in an environment that provides for their health and safety (ACECQA, 2011). As an educator, I believe that it is my responsibility to teach children about healthy lifestyles and how these positive behaviours are modelled. When planning daily routines, I will ensure that discussions on healthy eating, hygiene practices and physical activities are all incorporated to promote the importance of health and prevention of illness to children (ACECQA, 2013, Quality Area 2)....
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