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Ethics in Teaching

Teachers have an ethical duty to consider how their actions align with legal, professional, and moral standards. They must understand each student's diversity, needs, and development. Ethical issues involve questions of right and wrong that cannot be determined by facts alone and require ethical principles to judge situations. As educators, teachers have legal obligations to provide reasonable care for student safety and welfare. They must also be aware that their online activities could impact their reputation due to monitoring by employers, parents, students, and the community.

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Ethics in Teaching

Teachers have an ethical duty to consider how their actions align with legal, professional, and moral standards. They must understand each student's diversity, needs, and development. Ethical issues involve questions of right and wrong that cannot be determined by facts alone and require ethical principles to judge situations. As educators, teachers have legal obligations to provide reasonable care for student safety and welfare. They must also be aware that their online activities could impact their reputation due to monitoring by employers, parents, students, and the community.

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ETHICS IN TEACHING – WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

 Teachers make ethical decisions every day.


 The ways that teachers negotiate their actions within legal, departmental and moral
codes/policies is applied ethics.
 Considering your ethical decisions is one of the diverse roles and responsibilities of a
classroom teacher.

EDUCATION OF STUDENTS
Teachers need to:
 Understand the diversity of students in their classroom
 Recognise the role parents have as primary educators
 Be aware of the educational needs of each student, and
 Provide an appropriate curriculum for the development of each student.

NATURE OF ETHICAL ISSUES


1. Ethical issues concern questions of right or wrong – our duties, obligations,
responsibilities and rights
2. Ethical dilemmas cannot be settled by an appeal to facts alone. Knowing the
consequences of our actions is not sufficient in determining the right thing to do. In
ethical reasoning facts are relevant in deciding what to do, but by themselves they are
not enough. We require ethical principles by which to judge the facts.
3. Ethical questions should be distinguished from values. Our values concern what we
like or what we believe to be good. Often there is nothing right or wrong about our
values and these are more a matter of our free choice. Moreover, values are more
about how/what we have been brought up to believe.
 Generally there are choices attached to values but there is no obligation
 Ethical obligations are often independent of what we want or choose. Ethical
obligations are always obligations regardless of what we want or choose

WHY ETHICS?
Legal Obligations
DUTY OF CARE
What is it?
Teaching staff owe a duty to take reasonable care for the safety and welfare of students
whilst students are involved in school activities or are present for the purposes of a school
activity.
Examples
 not putting students at risk by doing something or failing to do something that could
cause the student to suffer injury or harm
 taking precautions, intervening to prevent obvious hazards from causing injury or
harm
 following safety procedures
 providing adequate instructions to students.
REASONABLE CARE (FACTORS):
 age of student
 physical and intellectual impairment
 medical condition
 behavioural characteristics
 nature of activity
 nature of environment

NEW MEDIA
 Recent employer statistics suggest that more than 70% of employers Google their
prospective employees. Parents, students and members of the school community will
do the same.
 The CEO has banned teachers from contacting students on Facebook etc.
 No posting on the internet is entirely safe, despite what you may believe.

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