Introduction An Educational leader has an awesome responsibility. There are many challenges as well as opportunities to address. Critical to being successful is the ethical compass which guides your decision making. Every decision should be made for the common good.…
Within this case the parent (Doug C.) argued that Hawaii School board infringed his sons rights under the IDEA Act by having an IEP meeting without his presence or consent. The reason behind the case that the school held a IEP meeting on date the parent could not attend, due to his non-attendance the school district removed Spencer C. from Horizon Academy(which he was at since 5th grade), a private special education facility to a Workplace Readiness Program at Mali High School (at the age of 18) without the parents’ consent. Doug based his argument on the portion of the IDEA act that states that explicit parental participation requirements. However, the school did try to work with the parent but the evaluation year renewal date was approaching.…
Tommy Raskin in “Cheating Students” (2013) argues that cheating in schools is an epidemic which keeps teachers from accurately assessing a student’s learning. Raskin supports this argument by stating that schools are shaped to be an equivalent of a job, reminding readers about teachers changing test scores to meet district, state, and federal standards, the hostile environment that is rampant in high schools, the benefits that cheaters reap, and finally, how cheating threatens our society (24-26). The writer’s purpose is to enlighten his audience about the cheating problem in American schools in order to change the educational system and testing procedures (26). Raskin adopts a direct, persuasive tone towards students, teachers, and school…
Introduction: This professional dispositions model assignment will outline the principles and standards set for teachers. Teaching consists of more than just instructional knowledge and good planning. There are a lot of factors that contribute to being an effective teacher. For example, teachers need to follow a set of strict and demanding standards that were initiated to foster student learning. A teacher that obeys this professional values system will be a positive role model for their class.…
The National Education Association of the United States essential task is founded on the belief that all students have the human right, and civil right to receive an excellent education which will cultivate their potential, independence, and personality with the fairness of opportunities. The (National Education Association-NEA) Code of Ethics is based on three principles as well as The Florida Code of Ethics, such principles are related to the students, to the profession and to the general public. The Florida Code of Ethics requires that educators are obligated to the above mentioned three concise objects or principles. Affiliates of the National Education Association must agree with the duties and philosophies that prompt to the commitment to the learner in the same way to the…
Educators need to feel that they are liable for their students’ actions in and outside of the…
Ethics is the broad theme of ISLLC Standard 5. The activities related to this standard provided me with a means to reflect on my personal code of ethics, explore ethics from the perspective of a district official, and to hear others’ perspectives of ethics in the school organization. The first activity allowed me to interview Richard Stiverson, a school board member, regarding his code of ethics. The interview was insightful and did not veer far from what I consider to be ethical. With regard to this activity, I was able to grasp the notion that ethical behavior is paramount to building and maintaining trust in an organization.…
Ethical challenges can occur during collaboration between a parent and a special education teacher regarding services provided to a student with a disability. One challenging scenario would be when a parent does not want a child to receive any special education services though the child has qualified. We do not understand the parents mental model with a different aspect of the social world then ourselves. To insure the child is receiving the proper services it is important for teachers to attempt to establish a paradigm shift (Amatea, 2013). To help a paradigm shift, special education teachers must discuss the reason why the parent does not want their child in special education.…
(Source E). Despite being a minority, a forty percent failure rate of the honor code does not cultivate integrity; students still commit to these unfair actions, and, as a result, students like Alyssa Vangelli should not believe in the integrity of fellow peers. It is quite evident that trust among students cannot prosper when students persist to shatter their school’s honor code. Notwithstanding this, these students, in a super-majority of eighty-eight percent, agree that “a violation of the honor code” would reasonably justify “failure on the assignment” (Source E).…
3 a.) My third and final source discusses a case in which more twenty-two Rice University students were found cheating on a lower-level physics final exam. The majority of the students were varsity athletes. The physics professor Arthur Few said he charged the students with cheating on the take-home, open-note, and open-book exam because most of the answers were the same on several exams. 14 of the students received an “F” for the course and were suspended for semesters.…
Ayriel Bland made a study on how No Child Left Behind affected African Americans. The most well-known case on the use of racial education is Brown v. Board of Education. In Brown, the Supreme Court held racial discrimination in public education unconstitutional, so each race was separated. Some people who support the NCLB Act argue that achievement goals based on race address the achievement gaps between ethnic groups, mainly between African Americans and other races. The result of this was that the achievement goals help close the achievement gap by focusing on minorities.…
Analyzing the ethical case between Ms. Smith and Wesley helped me gain awareness of ethical dimensions and practices. When Ms. Smiths phone went missing she viewed Wesley as a disadvantaged citizen in an unjust society. The reading does not state that Wesley stole his teachers phone, but educational policies persuaded Ms. Smith to believe so. The dilemma arises when Ms. Smith has to determine whether to follow the zero-tolerance policy or report her phone missing to higher authority. Principles of the dilemma compete because of the values at stake, and Ms. Smith has to determine her line of action to prioritize her student over herself.…
In our society abiding by rules is the foundation of daily life. According to the article, “School Cheating Scandal Test a Town’s Values,” published by the New York Times and written by Jodi Wilgoren, the contrary can be said. What started out as a decade long tradition of collecting and analyzing leaves for a sophomore botany project soon turned into a “plagiarism scandal that [would] riven [the] tight-knit community” (200) encompassing Piper High. Mrs. Pelton, the biology teacher, discovered one-fourth of the completed projects were “laced with lifted material” (201).…
For years students giving in to cheating has been a common problem all teachers face at some point in their careers. Some schools have strategies to reduce cheating, such as using casitas during exams, however this only acts as a temporary fix. These kinds of strategies only push students towards not to cheating, but does not teach them the importance of being honest. For this reason, Cypress Lakes High School should maintain its VALOR honor code system, to teach students valuable principles that they can carry on to their future.…
The scripture reads “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you. And you will be my witnesses, telling people about me everywhere in Jerusalem, throughout Judea, in Samaria, and to the ends of the earth (Holy Bible).” All truths come from these principles and define my personal epistemology. I strive to challenge myself to compare of all personal goals, thoughts and actions, to the consistent with what is stated above. As an educator, it is an obligation to model a lifestyle that reflects these principles.…