OAE Pedagogy: Professional Environment
Thank you Laura Gray for consolidating this informaton.
Defensive teaching: make educational decisions based off of a desire to avoid legal challenges
Teachers and ethics:
o Do not tolerate bullying
o Emotional Intelligence Quotient—a better indicator of success than IQ
Laws/rules:
- Mastery of subject
- Commitment to students
- Ability to effectively manage a classroom
- Continuous analysis of teaching performance
- Commitment to learning/self improvement
o Academic freedom: it is not absolute. It must be appropriate
o Negligence: if a teacher is not in the classroom during assigned duty, and something happens to endanger the student; determined by two criteria. 1) Would a reasonable person with similar training do same thing? 2) Could the teacher foresee the injury?
o Legal liability:
- Misfeasance: Failure to conduct an OTHERWISE lawful act in an appropriate manner
· Ex: A teacher uses too much force when breaking up a fight
- Nonfeasance: Failure to perform an act that one is obligated to perform
· Ex: A teacher doesn’t perform lunch duty
- Malfeasance: An act is performed that can’t be done lawfully.
· Ex: A teacher has an inappropriate relationship with a student
- Educational malpractice: concerned with “academic damage”
· Ex: The teacher gives the student wrong information
o Freedom of speech: If statements are not intentionally or recklessly inaccurate, the first amendment right still stands. Sometimes, however, this does not occur.
o Copying published materials: in order to use published materials, teachers must get written permission from the creator. However, Fair Use allows for the limited use of copyrighted materials.
- Criteria for fair use:
· Brevity: Poems should not be longer than 250 words; articles, stories and essays no longer than 2500 words; books no more than 1000 words or 10% of the book. Only one illustration allowed.
· Spontaneity: If a teacher thought to use the material too late and didn’t have enough time to get written permission.
· Cumulative effect: only nine works can be reproduced without permission per class per semester.
· Single copies can be made for personal use.
Administrative institutions:
Questions:
Teachers and ethics:
- Teachers must promote honesty over deceit to avoid plagiarism among students
- Social media use: don’t friend students, don’t post anything incriminating
- Protect the physical and emotional well being of students
o Do not tolerate bullying
- Exhibit emotional intelligence:
o Emotional Intelligence Quotient—a better indicator of success than IQ
- Teacher code of ethics: http://www.nea.org/home/30442.htm
Laws/rules:
- National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS): award board certification
- Mastery of subject
- Commitment to students
- Ability to effectively manage a classroom
- Continuous analysis of teaching performance
- Commitment to learning/self improvement
- Teacher’s rights and responsibilities:
o Academic freedom: it is not absolute. It must be appropriate
o Negligence: if a teacher is not in the classroom during assigned duty, and something happens to endanger the student; determined by two criteria. 1) Would a reasonable person with similar training do same thing? 2) Could the teacher foresee the injury?
o Legal liability:
- Misfeasance: Failure to conduct an OTHERWISE lawful act in an appropriate manner
· Ex: A teacher uses too much force when breaking up a fight
- Nonfeasance: Failure to perform an act that one is obligated to perform
· Ex: A teacher doesn’t perform lunch duty
- Malfeasance: An act is performed that can’t be done lawfully.
· Ex: A teacher has an inappropriate relationship with a student
- Educational malpractice: concerned with “academic damage”
· Ex: The teacher gives the student wrong information
o Freedom of speech: If statements are not intentionally or recklessly inaccurate, the first amendment right still stands. Sometimes, however, this does not occur.
o Copying published materials: in order to use published materials, teachers must get written permission from the creator. However, Fair Use allows for the limited use of copyrighted materials.
- Criteria for fair use:
· Brevity: Poems should not be longer than 250 words; articles, stories and essays no longer than 2500 words; books no more than 1000 words or 10% of the book. Only one illustration allowed.
· Spontaneity: If a teacher thought to use the material too late and didn’t have enough time to get written permission.
· Cumulative effect: only nine works can be reproduced without permission per class per semester.
· Single copies can be made for personal use.
Administrative institutions:
- Pay-for-performance/merit pay: pay is linked to teacher and student performance
- Tenure: given after teaching for a short probationary period; with tenure, a teacher cannot be fired
Questions:
- How is teaching a profession?
- What are some important tips for maintaining professionalism?
- Ms. Huxley runs to the bathroom, and leaves a student in charge. While she is gone, a student trips, slams their head on the desk, and might be very injured. With what crime could that student’s parent charge Ms. Huxley? Do you think that Ms. Huxley’s decision to leave the room is unprofessional/worthy of censor?
- Electra and Chaz are having an argument in class. Neither student will admit the validity of their classmate’s argument, and they begin to personally attack each other. Mr. Kukua knows that he must intervene. What advice could Mr. Kukua give his students that would promote emotional intelligence and professionalism?