Excellence in Teaching Summer Conference:

Teacher ProfessionalismFayetteville State University

August 09, 2013

Presenters:

Sheldon Harvey,Principal- Lewis Chapel Middle

School

Mellotta HillPrincipal- Howard Hall Classical

Today’s Agenda

Legal / Ethical Expectations

Personal Behavior

Social Networking

Attire

Roles & Responsibilities of Pre-Service Teachers

General Statute 115C-307

“Teaching is a profession laden with risk and responsibility that requires a great deal from those

who enter into it.”

--John I. Goodlad

2 Words

Profession

Professionalism

Legal / Ethical Expectations

Of the factors that are within the control, the quality of the teacher is the one thing that has been proven to have the most significant on the success of the student.

Legal• Governing Statutes NC General Assembly & State Board of

Education Policy• Avenue to voice your concerns or complain• Non-Discrimination on basis of race, gender, color, national

origin, political affiliation, age or disability• Workplace- prohibits racial or sexual harassment• Equal Employment Opportunity• Open Records Law on public employees• Drug Free Work Place• Protecting employees and children with a social media policy• Merit based recruitment and staffing• Providing reasonable accommodation for individuals

(Americans with Disabilities Act)• Preventing violence in the work place

Legal / Ethical Expectations

Of the factors that are within the control, the quality of the teacher is the one thing that has been proven to have the most significant on the success of the student.

Ethical• Testing/Assessment Code of Ethics

• Administrative Code – professional conduct for educators

• Protect confidential information/data (SSN, Employee ID, etc.)

• Reporting Policy- arrested or issued a legal restraining order or charged with a criminal offense

• Any local board of education policy covering ethical behavior

Legal / Ethical Expectations

Teachers are intended by parents, citizenry and lawmakers alike to serve as good examples for their young charges. Their character and conduct may be expected to be above those of the average individual not working in so sensitive a relationship as that of teacher to pupil. It is not inappropriate or unreasonable to hold our teachers to a higher standard of personal conduct, given the youthful ideals they are supposed to foster and elevate.

Faulkner v. New Bern-Craven County Bd. of Educ., 311 N.C. 42, 59, 316 S.E.2d 281, 291

(1984).

Personal Behavior

Ms. Rita Pearson“Every Kid Needs A Champion”

“Smile and the world smiles too.”•Your attitude shows in

EVERYTHING you do!•Put a smile on your face as

often as possible!•Positive body language is a sure fire way to project self

assurance, so stand tall, smile, and make eye contact.

Social Networking

A Social Network is a social structure made of nodes (which are generally individuals or organizations) that are tied up by one or more specific types of

interdependency , such as values, visions, ideas, financial exchange, friendship, kinship, dislike, conflict or trade

What comes with this new territory….District’s policy- messages sent about students & to students

Privacy concernsWho are my friends?

Life of Data

• Read this Associated Press article from November 12, 2008:

• CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - Several teachers in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school district face discipline for posting images and material on the social-networking site Facebook that school leaders find objectionable. District spokeswoman Nora Carr told the Charlotte Observer that officials are recommending that one teacher be fired for writing that she teaches "in the most ghetto school in Charlotte.“ (continues)

• Other pages discovered by WCNC-TV of Charlotte included photos of female teachers in sexually suggestive poses and a black male teacher who used a racial slur to describe an activity. A special-education teacher wrote, "I hate my students!"Carr said four teachers face unspecified discipline that is less than suspension or dismissal

Attire

The effective teacher dresses appropriately as a professional educator to model success.

As you are dressed, so shall you be perceived; and as you are perceived,so shall you be treated.

According to Harry Wong- What’s Out & What’s IN

Professional Dress/Attire

Unprofessional Dress/Attire

Male & Female Attire

• One is instantly evaluated based on appearance, body language, demeanor, and

mannerisms.

•Once this impression is formed, it is nearly impossible to reverse or undo it.

•Therefore, the first encounter is very important.

“You never get a second chance to make a first impression.”

- Will Rogers

Confidentiality

Two Confidentiality Laws

FERPA-Family Education Rights and Privacy Act

IDEA-Individuals With Disabilities Education Act

Scenarios

Roles & Responsibilities

Each child is living the only life he has—the only one he will ever have.

The least we can do is not diminish it.

--Bill Page

“THERE IS NO END TO EDUCATION. IT IS NOT THAT YOU READ A BOOK, PASS AN

EXAMINATION AND FINISH WITH EDUCATION. THE

WHOLE OF LIFE, FROM THEMOMENT YOU ARE BORN TO THE MOMENT YOU DIE, IS A PROCESS OF LEARNING.”– JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI