Certification and Reporting
The entity that handles licensing and ethics investigations of Georgia teachers?
What is the Professional Standards Commission/PSC?
What is yes?
Teachers may become facebook friends with students once they are no longer on that teacher's roster
What is a bad idea due to the appearance of impropriety and the loss of boundaries?
I'm only a mandatory reporter for things that happen at school.
What is teachers are always mandatory reporters and may be required to report things they learn about outside of school hours?
Canon I: An educator should strive always to ________ the educational system
What is Improve?
Warning, Reprimand, Suspension, Revocation or Denial
What are possible actions by the PSC?
An educator tutors her students after school and charges a fee
What is yes, a teacher may not charge current students for tutoring?
A teacher may post whatever she wants on her personal social media and the School can not due anything about it because of the teacher's first amendment rights
What is the School can still restrict that could be construed as "school speech?"
What is an educator is required to file a report of abuse immediately and no later than 24 hours.
Canon II: An Educator Should Act to Improve the Educator's _______ Abilities and to improve the School ___________.
What are Personal and Enviroment?
Crimes that involving fraud, dishonesty or false representation
What are crimes of moral turpitude?
An educator has a phone conversation with a parent of a student in her class while her daughter is in the car.
What is yes, this is a violation of the educator's duty of confidentiality?
A teacher reports suspected abuse to the school's principal, the designated person for reports. The principal fails to report. Can the teacher be sanctioned for failing to report?
What is no, because the teacher fulfilled his requirement to report to the designated individual?
Canon IV: An educator, upon request should provide any information he/she has to the Professional Standards Commission which would warrant or support the ______, _____or _____of a certificate, license or teaching credential of any other educator.
What is suspension, revocation or denial?
The entity or individuals who may report that an educator has violated the Code of Ethics
Who is any resident of the state of Georgia?
An educator has two glasses of wine at home before coming to her sons baseball game?
What is yes, the PSC has taken the position that this is being under the influence at a school event?
What is a FERPA violation?
Counselor hears students discussing another student's bruises. Students comments indicate bruises may be from student's father. Counselor calls student's neighbor to ask what they know.
What is the counselor should have reported the suspected abuse rather than conducting an investigation?
Canon V: An educator should assist in maintaining the _________ of the Profession.
When arrested for a DUI for the first time, I am not obligated to report it to the PSC until I am convicted.
What is no educators are required to report felony arrests and arrests for crimes of moral turpitude?
A teacher tells a community friend about a fight at school that was witnessed by multiple people and covered in the news. The teacher looked up the involved students' discipline histories and told a friend the students were not expelled.
What is yes, the teacher is required to keep student's information confidential?
An educator sees students post videos on social media of doing drugs at a house she recognizes.
What is potential DFACS report?
What are harm to student, loss of job, loss of license and potential criminal charges?
Canon VI: A ________ Should Exemplify the Best Qualities of an Educator
What is Supervisor?