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School Law: Ethical & Legal Influences on Teaching Fact Sheet
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School Law:
Ethical & legal infleunces on teaching
Fact sheet chapter 8
The law also helps in defining the rights and obligations of students, and being aware of them will help you engage with them in a more successful way. The legal rights and responding obligations of students can be classified into seven areas.
This chapter discusses educational law and how it could influence the choices we make in our professional life. It begins by giving legal issues surrounding education but also more general situations.
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Teacher's Rights
Copyright Law
Employment
Academic Freedom
What rights do teachers have with regard to matters of employment, such as collective bargaining, contracts, tenure, and dismissal?
To what extent may educators choose the materials they teach?
How much content can educators borrow from outside sources?
Important Key Words
Buckely Amendment FERPA is a federal act that makes school records accessible to students and their parents.
Negligence a teacher’s or another school employee’s failure to exercise sufficient care in protecting students from injury.
Copyright Laws federal laws designed to protect the intellectual prop- erty of authors, which includes printed matter, videos, computer software, and other types of original work
Corporal Punishment the use of physical, punitive disciplinary actions to correct student misbehavior (highly controversial)
limitations of laws
Laws can be applied to a wide range of specific situations since they are designed to be general. For instance, to prevent injuries to students, watch over experiments or tasks during cla0 ss, keep the peace at school assemblies, and put an end to hallway foolish behavior
Laws govern your rights and responsibilities in the workplace, but how much they might influence your professional choices depends on two factors.
They don't offer specific suggestions for decisions to be made in the future because they were developed in reaction to issues that already occurred. Legal concerns are often brought up because of this. At the end of the day you will have to use both your professional judgment and your understanding of the law.
Students and the Law
Educational Rights of Immigrant Children
Student's Rights in Speech & Dress
Permissble Search & Seizure
Sexual Harrassment
Student Records & Privacy
Student's Rights in Disciplinary Actions