Legal Responsibilities
Teachers are responsible for this when students are assigned to them. It prevents harm or injury.
What is safety?
Teacher unions can protect these in your workplace which ensures additional protection that your employers do not violate them.
What are your rights?
This ability is one area of debate and is subject to state and local school district regulations when it involves a student teacher.
What is the ability of student teachers acting as substitute teachers?
You receive this when you complete coursework and meet all of the requirements to enter into the teaching profession.
What is a teaching certificate?
The situations in which individuals face conflicting moral principles, making it challenging to determine the right course of action.
What are ethical dilemmas?
Teachers are considered to be this if they do not provide adequate supervision or medical care to students.
What is liable?
This is the right to seek knowledge, express ideas, and explore intellectually without interference or censorship.
What is academic freedom?
Individuals who are currently undergoing teacher training or education programs but have not yet entered the workforce as fully qualified teachers.
What are preservice teachers?
This is a reason your teaching certificate could be revoked especially when related to child endangerment or abuse.
What is criminal activity?
The NEA (National Education Association) has these for its members to reference when they face ethical dilemmas.
What is a professional code of ethics?
This is the failure to take proper care or caution in a situation leading to harm or damage to someone else.
What is negligence.
This is a formal complaint against an employer filed by the teacher.
What is a grievance?
This recommendation is what you should follow in your student teaching position to make sure you follow school policy and keep student information secure.
What is confidentiality?
This is a right of a teacher if he/she is facing the revocation of a teaching certificate.
What is the right to appeal?
This step in ethical decision making recognizes all parties who might be affected by your decision.
What is Identify Stakeholders?
This is misconduct by a professional that deviates from accepted standards of practice in a profession and causes harm to an individual.
What is professional malpractice?
This process is used for teachers to negotiate pay and employment conditions.
What is collective bargaining?
This recommendation is good practice when you encounter a situation or have a problem with a particular student.
What is documentation?
The consistent inability to deliver quality education or maintain classroom control.
What is incompetence?
What is due process?
This provides the framework for addressing civil wrongs.
What is tort law?
This is one of the criticisms of teacher unions as it is argued that it can occasionally lead to less effective teachers remaining in a school system while newer, potentially more innovative educators are overlooked.
What is seniority over merit?
You have the right to receive appropriate training, supervision, and guidance from this person during your student teaching placement.
What is a supervising teacher?
A formal agreement between a teacher and a school that sets the terms for the teacher's employment duration, salary, benefits, and the teacher's specific duties and responsibilities.
What is a teaching contract?
In this step in the ethical decision making process you use your key principles like fairness and justice to base your decision.
What is "Apply Ethical Principles"?