Code of Ethics
True or False: As an educator, what you post on social media and how you act in public matters?
True
Problem solving skills, learn by DOING, focuses on student interests, electives and career experiences (CTAE), field trips, project based, most popular in education
Extra 100 points if you can name the founder of this philosphy.
Progressivism
Founder: John Dewey
Four - authoritative, authoritarian, permissive, and indulgent
The mental action or process or acquiring knowledge, understanding, physical and emotional parts of the learning process.
Cognitve
Moral and social theories and cognitive theories are a part of what category?
Human and Growth Development
What's unethical with the scenario:
Educator folds report cards of students who make failing grades; consequently the rest of the class knows who is failing.
Standard 7 (Confidential Information)
Emphasis on structure, routine, rigor and academic subjects, old school thought – Must make As and pass everything to be better than other societies (competitive nature), largely testing focused
Essentialism
High Control - Low Student Involvement
Teacher centered, direct lecture style instruction, rules, strict, assigned seats, little student interaction, demand behavioral compliance, public correction, and “Old School”
Authoritarian
Theory developed by Jean Piaget with four stages of development that include sensorimotor, pre-operational, concrete operational, and formal operation.
Cognitive Development
Theory developed by Abraham Maslow that has five different levels and establishes each person must master each level before reaching the top of the pyramid.
Hierarchy of Needs or Theory of Motivation
What's unethical with the scenario:
An educator had two loaded guns in the desk drawer.
Standard 1 (Legal Compliance) and Standard 9 (Professional Conduct)
Each student finds their own path, what they are interested in and they are responsible for their own learning, usually a private school setting
Existentialism
Low Control - Low Student Involvement
Isn’t teacher or student focused, handouts, worksheets, busy work, no structure, no rules, little effort by the teacher, no lesson plans, teacher doesn’t care
Permissive
Theory developed by Lev Vygotsky that believes learning happens because we interact with the environment and learning happens first and then we begin to develop
Theory developed by Lawrence Kohlberg that believes people choose between right and wrong as they mature.
Moral Development
What's unethical with the scenario:
Educator held a candy fundraiser for a 4th grade trip. After the trip she continued with the candy fundraiser and began an unauthorized t-shirt sale. Audit revealed unaccounted funds of $2,628.50 plus she purchased gift certificates for herself and another teacher for a “Day at the Spa”.
Standard 4 (Honesty), Standard 5 (Public Funds and Property), and Standard 6 (Remunerative Conduct)
Studies the GREAT BOOKS and focuses on philosophers and their teachings/morality, focuses on the core subjects but how literature can be used in all, 3 R’s reading, writing and arithmetic, Socratic Seminars
Perenialism
High Control - High Student Involvement
Both teacher and student input conversations, discussion style class, there are rules, but consequences are fair and reasonable, supportive positive teacher that students can talk to, and firm but fair
Authoritative
Theory developed by Ivan Pavlov that included an experiment with dogs and the dinner bell. Every time they heard the bell they expected food due to the training.
Classical Conditioning
Theory developed by Erik Erikson that believes each stage of life has a problem a person is working on and he/she has to solve it either negatively or positively
Theory of Psychosocial Development
What organization is responsible for giving or denying teaching certificates and developing and monitoring the Georgia Code of Ethics?
Georgia Professional Standards Commission (GaPSC)
Problem solving skills, what is wrong in current society and how can it be fixed, social experiences and group, people, community interaction, independent thinking and analyzing
Social Reconstructionism
Low Control - High Student Involvement
Student-focused, student choice, teacher focuses on social and emotional aspects not academic, has difficulty saying “no” to students, lacks discipline, and wants students to be most comfortable
Indulgent
Theory developed by B.F. Skinner that uses reinforcement instead of punishment to achieve a desired behavior.
Operant Conditioning
Theory developed by Albert Bandura that used the BOBO Doll Experiment and proved that once you observe a behavior you will imitate that behavior.
Social Learning or Observational Learning Theory