...Connecting With Students While Maintaining Ethical Boundaries Ethical Boundaries The ethical boundaries of the teacher-student relationship have received a lot of negative press over the last decade. Intimate relationships between students and their teachers have been propelled to the national fore front, and with it, increased suspicion when it comes to teachers’ relationships to their pupils. What is Professionalism? Being an educator is increasingly being viewed as a professional occupation. The relationship between the client (in this case the student and their parents) and the practitioner (the teacher or academic institute) is a professional one. Ethical boundaries need to be established in order to protect both parties from the potential (or supposed) abuse of “power, control, and [or] influence” (Aultman). Why Establishing Ethical Boundaries is Difficult The problems with these boundaries in regards to teaching are twofold. First, they are not firmly established within the trade and are only recently beginning to be discussed at length. Secondly, establishing a strict set of ethical codes seems contradictory to the teaching process. It fosters impersonal connections with students when research shows that this is exactly the opposite of what they need. What are These “Ethical Boundaries”? There is not a definitive source on what the ethical boundaries are in regards to the teacher student relationship, and the ethical guidelines of other professions...
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...school district will help analyze the negotiation on the dramatic increases in enrollment and the proposed plan to redraw school boundaries. Also what are some of the major issues that will arise from this change and who are the key stakeholders that may be impacted? Anytime there is change it is expected to raise some eyebrows because of the number things affected, in this case there were several issues that needed to be addressed. What would be the best negotiation strategy for this change and will it work, also should the cultural and ethical aspects be taken into consideration because it may influence this decision. The Miami school district has recently announced a drastic increase in enrollment for the upcoming school year. Therefore, because of the nature of the change the school system had to hire some experts to redraw these school boundaries for next year. What this did was bring a natural reaction from the parents and that was complaints and voicing his or her concerns regarding this major decision. The chief concern with parents was with the soon to be quality of education there kids would receive and the affect from the implementation of the new changes. Most of the parents are curious and have tons of uncertainties with his or her child learning environment and the quality of teachers. With this new change it would leave many students no other choice but to change schools with maybe looking at extra travel time. What would this do to say, the families with...
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... school boundaries will be redrawn due to unexpected increases in enrollment. The school board has created a plan for the students as the school is not large enough to accommodate each and every one of them. They have hired experts to redraw school boundaries to be submitted for the following year. Upsetting many students as they will not be able to stay at their present school, several parents have voiced opinions based upon the school district proposed plan. Most of the parents are concerned about the quality of education their children will receive, increased travel time, crossing economic and cultural boundaries, affect on property values, and social effects on children. With the following reasons against the proposed plan, I will address all of the stakeholders and their concerns. This paper will also discuss a developed plan to address stakeholders’ concerns as well as the negotiation strategy used to support the school board’s need to redraw the boundaries with the concerns of the stakeholders. Lastly, the paper will explain how ethics and culture affect the decisions. There are many stakeholders in this situation with the students being redrawn from their current school. The students, school officials, staff, teachers, school district, and even the students’ parents are all stakeholders. The students will be affected by the redrawing as they may be going to a different school and face with different personal issues, including separation from friends. Students may be troubled...
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...the community, and the school. The school boundaries in Miami must be redrawn to concentrate on overcrowding. Experts are choosing and evaluating these boundaries. The affected stakeholders are experiencing concerns. One must first identify the stakeholders and their concerns before he or she can establish each of the concerns. Choosing a strategy for negotiation and reviewing the ethics and culture effects will ensure that the negotiation approach is applicable for the circumstances. In this paper the subject to analyze is a negotiation strategy that favors the board’s requirement to redraw school boundaries, identification of the stakeholders and how culture, and ethics affect the strategy. Stakeholders To originate an efficient negotiation strategy, one must identify the stakeholders and stakeholders concerns. The stakeholders in the Miami School District project are the students, parents, teachers, and school staff, and the community. The students are primary stakeholders because students who change schools will encounter a new teachers, campus, and classmates. Students will depart from the comfort of familiarity. The parents will experience the effects of a new environment for their children, and a different location of the new school. Teachers and staff will experience class sizes caused by the redistribution of students. The community would experience such effects as the influence of property value because of school boundaries. The community could experience this effect...
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...District school boundaries to changed. The decision was unexpected and many parents outraged by the school board’s decision. Experts have been hired by the school board to redraw the boundaries. The school board received several complaints from parents which voiced there concerns regarding the decision. The parents were concerned that the quality of education would be affected from the implementation of the new boundaries. The parents are unsure about the quality of teachers and the learning environment that their children will be learning in. The new boundaries would force many students to have to change schools and may increase travel time. Low income families would have limited options and would be forced to comply with the school board’s decision. Students living in higher income households would have the option of attending private school if the student’s parents didn’t agree with the school boards decision. The property values would be affected because future home buyers would be looking for homes that are located close to quality schools. Current residence may decide to move if their children are faced with going to a lower quality school as a result of the changes. The school board’s decision could increase property values if the boundaries cross into lower income areas. The changes purposed by the school board will force students to make new friends at a new school and may impact their social life. The change in school possibly could create hardships for students and parents...
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...responsibilities and boundaries would be as a teacher in terms of the teaching/training cycle Role, responsibilities and boundaries are evolving qualities within the teacher which are assessed and reflected upon using the teaching/training cycle; a cycle of assessment, planning and review. The main role of the teacher is to facilitate communication in such a way that all students are encouraged to enter into a wider debate surrounding the topic they have chosen. To ensure sessions’ aims and objectives are meaningful and applicable to students the teaching role incorporates ongoing administration and assessment. Assessing varying learning styles within a group and considering learner’s motivations and previous experiences helps identify various teaching methods that could be useful throughout the program. Sessions incorporating visual, auditory and kinaesthetic learning styles ensures students have equal rights to learning and provide the opportunity to re-evaluate what is already known while exploring aims and objectives from a different perspective. I teach holistic health and wellbeing classes where motivations and previous experience constantly change as better health is experienced. My role is to create a safe learning environment to establish open and trusting relationships. Recording changes by completing relevant admin ensures records are up to date in order to evaluate changes to forthcoming aims and objectives. The main responsibility of the teacher is to continually reassess...
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...comprises 392 schools, employs more than 40,000 people dedicated to the education of the district’s 345,000 students. The diversity in Miami’s schools in unmatched, represents 160 countries, and the students speak 56 different languages (Dade schools, 2012). An issue common to large cities in the United States is over-crowding in public schools. The Miami school districts attempt to address the unexpected enrollment increases by redrawing its school boundaries for the upcoming school year faces tough opposition from the parents. This paper researches the concerns of the parents, other stakeholders, and develops a negotiation strategy that supports the school boards need to redraw the school boundaries. Six controlled choice boundaries with 14 choice schools make up the Miami-Dade County Public Schools district. Parents have the option of choosing a preferred school for their child using the controlled open enrollment method. Through this initiative, Miami-Dade’s school offerings have increased to provide parents with options best suited to maximize their child’s learning experience (Great Schools, n.d.). Students with special needs may be eligible to receive a McKay Scholarship to attend a private school, which fully supports the Students with disabilities program (Florida Statutes, 2010). The Federal no Child left behind law dictates that students enrolled in a school designated as needing improvements have the right to attend a higher performing school...
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...accommodate the unexpected increase in enrollment, the school boundaries for the following year will be revised. The school board has hired experts to redraw the boundaries and notified parents of the changes that will occur next year. This paper addresses the concerns of the stakeholders, the negotiation strategy used by school board, and the ethical/cultural effect of the decision. Under the revised plan many students will not be able to continue their education at their present school. The decision was unexpected and many parents are outraged by the school board’s decision. The school board received several complaints from parents which voiced their concerns regarding the decision. The parents raised the following concerns: - Quality of education - Increased travel time - Crossing economic and cultural boundaries - Effect on property values - Social effects on children Parents are concerned that the quality of their children’s education will be compromised by the new plan. Parents argue that their children are established in their current schools, with their current classmates, and moving them will be disruptive to their learning. Many parents have chosen the schools their children are currently attending, and purposely purchased homes in the area because they wanted their children to attend the schools in the area. Parents of high school aged children entering their senior years are upset that the students will have to change schools during their senior year possibly...
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...dilemmas a teacher faces are numerous. They hypothetical challenge faced by Kelly Anderson, described in the case study in Pugach (2009) on pages 386-87, illustrates some of the issues teachers might have to deal with. In Kelly’s case, her fellow teachers made disparaging remarks about students and their families in the teachers’ lounge. Teachers in Kelly’s “team” formed a clique, and did not interact with other teachers in the school except when necessary. The negativity about students was uncomfortable for Kelly because she was a new teacher in the school, and because many in the community believed teachers should be able to vent about their challenges working with students. Kelly dealt with the situation by speaking to her fellow teachers, and when they did not change their behavior, speaking to the assistant principal. The assistant principal mentioned trying to incorporate the topic into a district professional development program. The NEA Code of Ethics states that, “The educator strives to help each student realize his or her potential as a worthy...
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...Ethical Communication in the Workplace Name Course Instructor Date Introduction Communication is a concept that is controversial, especially with the dynamics of the information age. There is confusion on what is right and wrong in communication, creating a never ending debate. Ethics help in providing guidelines for appropriate actions and decisions. Ethical communication allows for one to communicate to the audience the intended message in the right way, without bias. It encompasses honesty, confidentiality where necessary and openness. Adhering to ethical and moral principles when communicating ensures minimal negative consequences, hence, positive action and reaction from the audience. This makes it a crucial aspect of leadership. It is important to note that effective and ethical communication is different. For instance, a charismatic leader such as a politician has the ability to appeal to the emotions of the masses, but if the truth is exaggerated or hidden, this cannot be referred to as ethical communication. It is only effective. Ethical communication includes what is said as well as what is not said, hence the need to act as one preaches and correction of false impressions. Throughout human history, unethical communication has been portrayed as a powerful weapon of destruction. It has ruined interpersonal relationships, been used to support greed, corruption, oppression and tyranny within institutions as well as starting and fuelling economic injustice, violence...
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... Introduction For the upcoming year, Miami School District has announced that they will be changing the school boundaries due to the increases in enrollment that was unexpected. The school plans on coming up with a solution that will even out the classrooms and rezone some school district areas. Parents acknowledge their concern with the rezoning boundaries because that will mean their children may have to go to another school. They took their concerns to the school board and the school board told them that they will come up with a plan and decide on a negotiation strategy to address everyone’s concerns. In this paper, I will discuss the negotiation strategy, the stakeholder’s concerns, and explain how ethics and culture affect my decision. Stakeholders To form an effective negotiation strategy, we must first identify all the stakeholders. The stakeholders that are involved in this negotiation strategy are the school board members, parents, and the students. The school board members are affected by the decision because they must even out the classrooms and make sure each school is not overcrowded. The parents concern about the changes because it may increase their travel time if they have to take their children to a different school, their property value may go up and the social effects on their children may be disturbed. The students’ affect on the decision will have to go to a different school, may not have their friends at the new school, and may not get...
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...upcoming school year and the boundaries of the school district. The Miami school district will work with experts to redraw the boundaries of the school district to help reduce the size of the school enrolment. Therefore, with the boundaries redrawn some students will attend the upcoming school year at a different school. The parents, of the students attending Miami schools are upset and protesting the school districts new plan to change the boundaries of the district. In order for the school board to move forward the district needs to hold a public meeting explain the need for the change in the districts bounders and explain to the parents what the outcome is if the boundaries are not changed before the upcoming school year. In the paper, the paper will cover the concerns of the parents and the ways the Miami school district or board plans to deal with the parents concerns. Quality of education The parents of the students attending Miami school districts are concerned about the type of education his or her child will receive with the district’s new plan in place in the upcoming school year. One of the biggest concerns for the parents is that the students have attended the same school for many years and now he-she forced to leave what he-she knows, and move to a different school. For some students the change is minor, however, for a high school student or senior ready to graduate the change is devastating to the learning process and the student will not graduate with his...
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...Professional Ethics for Psychologist Chapter 13: Counselors as Teachers and Researchers Written Report THE ETHICS OF TEACHING *Society views teachers ambivalently – on one they are held in high regard but on the other hand, they are viewed with vain and distrust. *the task of the profession is to ensure that its teachers use their powers responsibly *literature on the ethics of training mental health professionals is not as abundant as the publication on ethics in counseling, but there are still resources available. Several experts have addressed the issue, the recent versions of the ethics code speak to this activity, and some empirical studies have been conducted. Competence to teach -Faculty who teach counselors must be: 1) Competent practitioners 2) Knowledgeable about their subject matter 3) Prepared for their work 4) Put fair efforts into facilitating student learning -Nearly all psychology faculties acknowledge occasional incidences of inadequate preparation for classes. -38% admits that they teach materials they have not mastered (Tabachnic et al, 1991). -36% reports teaching material for which they are not competent in (Schwab and Neukrug, 1994). - Faculty also has the responsibility to present information fairly, and to distinguish between personal opinions and established theory and research. 1990 APA code (no longer in effect): “[A]s teachers psychologist perform their duties on the basis of careful preparation...
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...Review your role, responsibilities and boundaries as a teacher in terms of the teaching and training cycle. & Summarise the key aspects of current legislative requirements and codes of practice relevant to your subject and type of organization within which you work. “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” William A. Ward (www.adprima.com), 2011 Teaching is both an art and science. Science because it is a systematic knowledge gained through observation and experimentation (exploration) and art because it is the craft which uses specific principles and methods (creative).A proficient teacher has to make sure that both aspects are applied while blending in to the environment. Teaching as a profession has changed over a period of time and so has the role of a teacher. The conventional role of a teacher was to just impart information to students and students were expected to learn and understand it. Now, with extensive research done on how student learn, a new insight has developed and hence the role of teacher has changed. Innumerable learning theories, e.g. Sensory, Kolb’s experiential theory, Skinner’s behaviorist’s theory and the learning domains (Cognitive, Psychomotor, Affective) Gravells (2008),(Behavioral, Cognitive and Humanistic) Roger (1996) have been identified and related to diverse strategies to cope with individual learning styles. On the other hand, Reece and Walker (2006)...
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...Crossing Boundaries – an interdisciplinary journal VOL 1, No 3 - Fall 2002 From Communicative Competence to Language Awareness: An Outline of Language Teaching Principles MANUEL SINOR Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta This essay offers a critical review of some key theoretical issues relevant to second language acquisition and considers the practical implications of these issues on language teaching. The discussion advocates a renewed communicative approach to language pedagogy, which entails the educators’ readiness to act as teacher-researchers, their cautious considerations of individual learner differences, their familiarity with some defining aspects of human learning, and their willingness to encourage the learners’ discovery of formal language properties in a reflective and autonomous manner. 1 Introduction This essay reviews some of the key theoretical notions associated with second language acquisition and considers the pedagogical relevance of these notions. In order to relate the discussion to the practicalities of language teaching, we refer to the hypothetical case of ten adult learners of English, freshly arrived from Japan for a six-month course at a Canadian language school. These learners have earned their title of “mature students” not only from their middle age range, but also because their country’s Foreign Office selected them for their motivation to study English in Canada. Despite this promising background, two burning questions...
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