UNV 501 Week 4 Quiz

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Question 1

• Principle IV: Responsibility to the School Community: D: The professional educator promotes effective and appropriate relationships with employers.

Scenario: An educator invites her church group to come in and use the gym on Saturday for baptisms. The group comes in to use the gym and cleans up before leaving. The educator did not have permission to use the gym. Which professional tenet has the educator violated?

 Using property, facilities, materials, and resources in accordance with local policies and state and federal laws.

 Respecting intellectual-property ownership rights (e.g., original lesson plans, district level curricula, syllabi, grade books, etc.) when sharing materials.

 Exhibiting personal and professional conduct that is in the best interest of the organization, learning community, school community, and profession.

 Considering the implications of offering or accepting gifts and/or preferential treatment by vendors or an individual in a position of professional influence or power.

Question 2

Principle II: Responsibility for Professional Competence: C: The professional educator acts in the best interest of all students.

Scenario: An educator overhears a conversation between two of her students. One of her students is talking about how dangerous it is for him to walk home. He lives in an area with known gang activity. Every day, when he walks home, he is getting in fights with gang members in his area. The educator stops the conversation and asks the student if he is all right. He shows her a bruise on his arm and leg, which he received in yesterday’s fight. He says he is fine because he is used to it and that she does not have to worry about it because it is not happening on school grounds. The educator tells him to be careful and does not discuss the situation with anyone else. The student walks home that day and gets beat up again. Which professional tenet has the educator violated?

 Increasing students’ access to the curriculum, activities, and resources in order to provide a quality and equitable educational experience.

 Working to engage the school community to close achievement, opportunity, and attainment gaps.

 Protecting students from any practice that harms or has the potential to harm students. 

Question 3

Principle IV: Responsibility to the School Community: A: The professional educator promotes effective and appropriate relationships with parents/guardians.

Scenario: It is the end of a semester. An educator has a student that is failing and has been failing all semester. The parent calls, upset, because the educator never called home or sent anything home, sharing that the student was struggling. The educator tells the parent that if they were more involved and participated in the student’s education and had checked the parent/student portal, this would not have happened. The educator hangs upon the parent. Which professional tenet has the educator violated?

 Communicating with parents/guardians in a timely and respectful manner that represents the students’ best interests.

 Demonstrating a commitment to equality, equity, and inclusion as well as respecting and accommodating diversity among members of the school community.

 Considering the implication of accepting gifts from or giving gifts to parents/guardians.

 Maintaining appropriate confidentiality with respect to student information disclosed by or to parents/guardians unless required by law.

Question 4

Principle I: Responsibility to the Profession: A: The professional educator demonstrates responsibility to oneself as an ethical professional.  

Scenario:  An educator has had a family emergency Monday night after school. Her father has passed away. Because the educator’s mother is handling all of the arrangements, the educator decides to go to work on Tuesday and teach. The students can tell that something is wrong. The educator has cried in front of the students several times and has been unable to move through the lessons. Which professional tenet has the educator violated?

 Acknowledging that lack of awareness, knowledge, or understanding of the Code is not, in itself, a defence to a charge of unethical conduct.

 Knowing and upholding the procedures, policies, laws, and regulations relevant to professional practice regardless of personal views.

 Holding oneself responsible for ethical conduct.

 Monitoring and maintaining sound mental, physical, and emotional health necessary to perform duties and services of any professional assignment; and taking appropriate measures when personal or health-related issues may interfere with work-related duties. 

 Refraining from professional or personal activity that may lead to reducing one’s effectiveness within the school community. 

 Avoiding the use of one’s position for personal gain and avoiding the appearance of impropriety.

 Taking responsibility and credit only for work actually performed or produced, and acknowledging the work and contributions made by others.

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Question 5

Principle V: Responsible and Ethical Use of Technology: A: The professional educator uses technology in a responsible manner.

Scenario: An educator learns that there is a social media group dedicated to her class, where students can share notes and discuss their experiences. She visits the group and asks to be a member. After becoming a member, several of her students send a friend request to her on social media. She accepts and begins to interact with her students in a personal manner. The educator posts on her social media account, quite often, sharing photos of her with her boyfriend and out at bars with her friends. Which professional tenet has the educator violated?

 Using social media responsibly, transparently, and primarily for purposes of teaching and learning per school and district policy. The professional educator considers the ramifications of using social media and direct communication via technology on one’s interactions with students, colleagues, and the general public.

 Staying abreast of current trends and uses of school technology.

 Promoting the benefits of and clarifying the limitations of various appropriate technological applications with colleagues, appropriate school personnel, parents, and community members.

 Knowing how to access, document, and use proprietary materials and understanding how to recognize and prevent plagiarism by students and educators.

 Understanding and abiding by the district’s policy on the use of technology and communication.

 Recognizing that some electronic communications are records under the Freedom of Information Act and state public access laws and should consider the implications of sharing sensitive information electronically either via professional or personal devices/accounts

 Exercising prudence in maintaining separate and professional virtual profiles, keeping personal and professional lives distinct.

Question 6

Principle III: Responsibility to Students: A: The professional educator respects the rights and dignity of students.

Scenario: A high school junior has asked his current educator to tutor him in math. The student is 17 years old and has little brothers and sisters he has to take care of after school, so he asked his educator to tutor him at his house. He mentioned that his parents would not be home. The educator comes over to tutor the student. The educator noticed that the brothers and sisters are not home. When she mentioned it, he began to confide in her about a recent break-up and how lonely he was feeling. He was just looking for some company and did not really want to be tutored in math. The educator chooses to engage in sexual activity with the student. Which professional tenet has the educator violated?

 Respecting students by taking into account their age, gender, culture, setting and socioeconomic context.

 Interacting with students with transparency and inappropriate settings.

 Communicating with students in a clear, respectful, and culturally sensitive manner.

 Taking into account how appearance and dress can affect one’s interactions and relationships with students.

 Considering the implication of accepting gifts from or giving gifts to students.                

Engaging in physical contact with students only when there is a clearly defined purpose that benefits the student and

continually keeps the safety and well-being of the student in mind.

 Avoiding multiple relationships with students, which might impair objectivity and increase the risk of harm to student learning or well-being or decrease educator effectiveness.
 Acknowledging that there are no circumstances that allow educators to engage in romantic or sexual relationships with students.

 Considering the ramifications of entering into an adult relationship of any kind with a former student, including but not limited to, any potential harm to the former student, public perception, and the possible impact on the educator’s career. The professional educator ensures that the adult relationship was not started while the former student was in school.

Question 7

Principle I: Responsibility to the Profession: C: The professional educator promotes and advances the profession within and beyond the school community.

Scenario: In the break room, the educator cusses and rants over how poorly the state superintendent is doing his or her job. Which professional tenet has the educator violated?

 Influencing and supporting decisions and actions that positively impact teaching and learning, educational leadership, and student services.

 Engaging in respectful discourse regarding issues that impact the profession.

 Enhancing one’s professional effectiveness by staying current with ethical principles and decisions from relevant sources including professional organizations.

 Actively participating in educational and professional organizations and associations. Advocating for adequate resources and facilities to ensure equitable opportunities for all students.

Question 8.

Principle IV: Responsibility to the School Community: C:  The professional educator promotes effective and appropriate relationships with the community and other stakeholders.

Scenario: The educator receives her classes’ test scores and notices they are a few points below the acceptable average. She changes the test scores, subsequently inflating students’ average test scores. Since school districts mail out the test results, both the parents and the administration notice the difference and ask her what happened. She admits to changing the test scores, and apologizes. Which professional tenet has the educator violated?

 Advocating for policies and laws that the educator supports as promoting the education and well-being of students and families.

 Collaborating with community agencies, organizations, and individuals in order to advance students’ best interests without regard to personal reward or remuneration.

 Maintaining the highest professional standards of accuracy, honesty, and appropriate disclosure of information when representing the school or district within the community and in public communications.

Question9

Principle III: Responsibility to Students: C: The professional educator maintains student trust and confidentiality when interacting with students in the developmentally appropriate manner and within appropriate limits.

Scenario: An educator discovers that one of his students has been removed from her home. She is in a foster home and her parents’ rights have been terminated. The educator has been notified by the administration that he is not to release any information to the student’s parents and that all communication about the student needs to be sent to the student’s new guardians. The educator knows the mother of the student and calls her to see what happened. During that conversation, the educator accesses the student’s confidential files to share her current progress in the course. Which professional tenet has the educator violated?

 Respecting the privacy of students and the need to hold in confidence certain forms of student communication, documents, or information obtained in the course of professional practice

 Upholding parents’/guardians’ legal rights, as well as any legal requirements to reveal information related to legitimate concerns for the well-being of a student.

 Protecting the confidentiality of student records and releasing personal data in accordance with prescribed state and federal laws and local policies.

Question 10.

Principle I: Responsibility to the Profession: B: The professional educator fulfills the obligation to address and attempt to resolve ethical issues.

Scenario: Over the weekend, an educator witnessed a colleague walking hand in hand with a student, and then kissing the student on the cheek. When the educator approached the colleague, the colleague made eye contact, dropped the student’s hand, and quickly left the store. The educator thought nothing of it and continued grocery shopping. On Monday, the educator approaches the colleague and the colleague says they are “just friends.” The educator trusts the colleague and does not discuss the issue with anyone else. Which professional tenet has the educator violated?

 Confronting and taking reasonable steps to resolve conflicts between the Code and the implicit or explicit demands of a person or organization.

 Maintaining fidelity to the Code by taking proactive steps when having reason to believe that another educator may be approaching or involved in an ethically compromising situation.

 Neither discriminating nor retaliating against a person on the basis of having made an ethical complaint.

 Neither filing nor encouraging frivolous ethical complaints solely to harm or retaliate

 Cooperating fully during ethics investigations and proceedings.

Question 11

Principle V: Responsible and Ethical Use of Technology - D: The professional educator promotes the appropriate use of technology in educational settings.

Scenario: The school has a BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) policy for students. The educator has assigned a research question to each student, but the computer lab is not available. She tells the students to use their personal devices to answer the research question. Five of her students do not have a device. She fails those students for not completing the assignment. Which professional tenet has the educator violated?

 Advocating for equal access to technology for all students, especially those historically underserved.

 Promoting the benefits of and clarifying the limitations of various appropriate technological applications with colleagues, appropriate school personnel, parents, and community members.

 Promoting technological applications (a) that are appropriate for students’ individual needs, (b) that students understand how to use, and (c) that assist and enhance the teaching and learning process.

Question 12

Principle III: Responsibility to Students: B: The professional educator demonstrates an ethic of care.

Scenario: It is time for parent educator conferences. The educator knows that one of her students has same-sex parents. The educator is not comfortable with same-sex relationships because it violates her religious beliefs. The educator refuses to meet with the student’s parents and tells the student it is because she disapproves of same-sex relationships. The educator feels that the student does not deserve to do well in school because of her parents’ same-sex relationship. The student fails her class. Which professional tenet has the educator violated?

 Seeking to understand students’ educational, academic, personal, and social needs as well as students’ values, beliefs, and cultural background.

 Respecting the dignity, worth, and uniqueness of each individual student including, but not limited to, actual and perceived gender, gender expression, gender identity, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and culture.

 Establishing and maintaining an environment that promotes the emotional, intellectual, physical, and sexual safety of all students.

Question 13

Principle II: Responsibility for Professional Competence: A: The professional educator demonstrates commitment to hig h standards of practice.

Scenario: A professional development workshop for teachers hosted by an international technology company is coming to an educator’s town in a few weeks. Although an educator has ample time to attend the workshop and has a great interest in the workshop’s topic, she decides not to attend because she feels she knows enough about the profession and does not need additional professional development. Which professional tenet has the educator violated?

 Incorporating into one’s practice state and national standards, including those specific to one’s discipline.

 Using the Model Code of Educator Ethics and other ethics codes unique to one’s discipline to guide and frame educational decision-making.

 Advocating for equitable educational opportunities for all students.

 Accepting the responsibilities, performing duties and providing services corresponding to the area of certification, licensure, and training of one’s position.

 Reflecting upon and assessing one’s professional skills, content knowledge, and competency on an ongoing basis.

 Committing to ongoing professional learning.

Question 14

Principle II: Responsibility for Professional Competence: B: The professional educator demonstrates responsible use of data, materials, research, and assessment.

Scenario: An educator is using a student to help him grade papers. The student is an educator’s assistant. Because the educator is so overwhelmed, he has the student input the grades into the grade book. The student notices that her friend is failing the third period, and tells her friend at lunch that day. Which professional tenet has the educator violated?

 Appropriately recognizing others’ work by citing data or materials from published, unpublished, or electronic sources when disseminating information.

 Using developmentally appropriate assessments for the purposes for which they are intended and for which they have been validated to guide educational decisions.

 Conducting research in an ethical and responsible manner with appropriate permission and supervision.

 Seeking and using evidence, instructional data, research, and professional knowledge to inform practice. 

 Creating, maintaining, disseminating, storing, retaining and disposing of records, and data relating to one’s research and practice, in accordance with district policy, state, and federal laws.

Question 15.

Principle IV: Responsibility to the School Community: E:  The professional educator understands the problematic nature of multiple relationships.

Scenario: The educator goes out for a happy hour after work one night. After having a few drinks, she realized that the bartender is a parent of one of her students. They begin chatting and agree to go on a date the following week. The teacher and the parent begin dating regularly. The student stops turning in assignments and tells her that he does not think he should have to do anything since she gets to date his dad. Which professional tenet has the educator violated?

 Considering the risks that multiple relationships might impair objectivity and increase the likelihood of harm to students’ learning and well-being or diminish educator effectiveness.

 Considering the risks and benefits of a professional relationship with someone with whom the educator has had a past personal relationship and vice versa.
 Considering the implications and possible ramifications of engaging in a personal or professional relationship with parents and guardians, student educators, colleagues, and supervisor.

 Ensuring that professional responsibilities to paraprofessionals, student educators, or interns do not interfere with responsibilities to students, their learning, and well-being.

Question 16

Principle V: Responsible and Ethical Use of Technology: C: The professional educator maintains confidentiality in the use of technology.

Scenario: An educator is overwhelmed with her grading. She asks her neighbor to come over and help her input grades into her gradebook. The neighbor notices that one of the students is her cousin, and asks the educator how the child is doing in class. The educator initiates an open conversation about the student’s private information like grades and behavior. Which professional tenet has the educator violated?

 Taking appropriate and reasonable measures to maintain confidentiality of student information and educational records stored or transmitted through the use of electronic or computer technology.

 Understanding the intent of the Federal Educational Rights to Privacy Act and how it applies to sharing electronic student records.

 Ensuring that the rights of third parties, including the right of privacy, are not violated via the use of technologies.

Question 17 

Principle IV: Responsibility to the School Community: B: The professional educator promotes effective and appropriate relationships with colleagues.

Scenario: An educator and one of her colleagues do not get along. They often argue in the break room and when passing in the hallways. Today, the educator walked into her colleague’s classroom, and called him a jerk in front of his students, because he ate her lunch and left her a note that she makes good sandwiches. Which professional tenet has the educator violated?

 Respecting colleagues as fellow professionals and maintaining civility when differences arise.

 Resolving conflicts, whenever possible, privately and respectfully and in accordance with district policy.

 Keeping student safety, education, and health paramount by maintaining and sharing educational records appropriately and objectively in accordance with local policies and state and federal laws.

 Collaborating with colleagues in a manner that supports academic achievement and related goals that promote the best interests of students.

 Enhancing the professional growth and development of new educators by supporting effective field experiences, mentoring, or induction activities across the career continuum.

 Ensuring those educators who are assigned to participate as mentors for new educators, cooperating educators or other educator leadership positions are prepared and supervised to assume these roles

 Ensuring those educators are assigned to positions in accordance with their educational credentials, preparation, and experience in order to maximize students’ opportunities and achievement.

 Working to ensure a workplace environment that is free from harassment.

Question18

Principle V: Responsible and Ethical Use of Technology: B: The professional educator ensures students’ safety and well-being when using technology.

Scenario: An educator notices that one of his students is starting to slack off in class. The teacher decides to check the student’s social media account, to see if there is any information publicly available. The educator notices that the student is spending quite a bit of time with her friends after school, and posting pictures of the activities. He confronts the student and tells her she needs to spend less time with her friends and more time working on schoolwork. Which professional tenet has the educator violated?

 Being vigilant in identifying, addressing and reporting (when appropriate and in accordance with local district, state and federal policy) inappropriate and illegal materials/images in electronic or other forms.

 Respecting the privacy of students’ presence on social media unless given consent to view such information or if there is a possibility of evidence of a risk of harm to the student or others.

 Monitoring to the extent practical and appropriately reporting information concerning possible cyberbullying incidents and their potential effect on the student learning environment.