Code of Ethics and Florida Principles of the Teaching Profession

The Florida Administraction Code is an extremely important document that sets the standards that guide educators to follow. This set of guidelines are given to protect students and teachers. These principles are ethically and show consist of basic values to help manage the actions of workers. If an educator sees something that goes against a principle, they are mandatory to comply and help correct the situation.

The Florida Administration Code has three separate sections included with separate groups of rules in each. The first of the three is aimed at the well being of students. This including things such as not denying a student to different viewpoints or exposing a student to unnecessary embarrassment. Keeping students well being valued is crucial to being in the profession. The second obligation is based on how the public eye views the teacher. This means a teacher can not receive or distribute gratuity to help them in their professional field or telling the public their personal views. Lastly, the third obligation is rules concerning colleagues. Educators, like in any job, should be kind to their other workers. This includes lying to them or harassing them. People in this need to understand that team works helps tremendously so being kind to one another is important.

Mike loves science and voraciously reads articles, does his own science projects, and research. Mike has moved ahead of his peers with his knowledge and understanding of the science content. Mike continuously asks his teacher questions and brings ideas for projects. The teacher has grown tired of Mike’s questions and now limits Mike to ask only the questions associated with the study guide given.

In this scenario, we have a student who is excelling in his studies and wants to learn more so he is going to his teacher to ask academic questions about the subject. Though the teacher limits the student to only ask a certain amount of questions because he is tired of having to answer so many. This is a violation of the second obligation, holding back a student from learning as much as they possibly can. This teacher could really be a big help to this student’s fascination with science but denies him the knowledge. Perhaps if the teacher does not like the various questions and ideas the child is presenting he can create a challenging subject for the student to learn upon. This allowing the student to take on something that is beneficial to him and not asking a variety of science questions to the teacher.

Mr. Samberg has had a long hard day. The school schedule was interrupted and he didn’t sleep well last night due to his brand new baby crying. Mr. Samberg typically meets with all of his students individually to review their test grades. Because he is tired and out of time, Mr. Samberg posts student names and grades on the class Twitter account in which students, parents, and administration have access.

In this scenario, it describes a new father who is also a teacher. Due to the new baby at home he has become tired at the schoolday enough to not be able to go through each of the student's tests with them individually, in result he posted the test results with the student's names publicly on Twitter. This is a violation of the ninth obligation. Teachers can not pass out personal information about the students. Instead of doing this he could have handed out papers with their test grade to each student, or even simply wait until another day to sit one on one with them all. According to the state-approved curriculum, 4th grades were slated to learn about fractions in math this year. Mrs. Coppler is not a fan of fractions and decides to skip this section of math. Her 4th grades complete the year without learning about fractions.

In this scenario, we have a teacher intentionally not teaching students a certain topic simply because they do not want to. The teacher decides to cut fractions out of her curriculum because she does not enjoy them. This will seriously hurt the children later in life when needing to deal with fractions in math and not having the knowledge of had done them before. This is a violation against obligation four. This teacher is holding back on something the children need to learn. A solution besides taking a deep breath and just teaching them it would be to maybe make teaching fractions fun for the teacher.

Josie, a sixth grader has been identified with a learning disability. Accommodations have been identified, but the teacher is refusing to implement the accommodations. Click on this Resource to assist you with the scenario. In this scenario, a teacher is told she has to have accommodations in her classroom to help a child with learning disabilities. Though the teacher is refusing to incorperate these accommodations. Doing this is a violation of obligation six, intentionally denting a student to their legal rights to have an education. There are many ways the teacher could help this student regardless of the disability they have.

This scenario is concerning a teacher sending an email to the entire staff concerning his political opinions towards a child and his immigration status. He told that he would not teach an illegal immigrant child, and goes on to say how his parents should apply for citizenship. This goes against the seventh obligation in the code of ethics, the teacher is discriminating against the child’s ethnic background and refusing to teach him. Instead maybe he could file something to have the child moved to another class instead of his but in all honesty, as a teacher, they should not let their political views get in the way of a child's education.

Teachers and students have practiced all year for tornado warnings. The teacher has grown weary of the “drills” and begins to ignore the warnings. The tornado alarm sounds and the teacher discourages students from moving to the designated safe places. In this scenario, the teacher has become tired of practicing the tornado drills and is now ignoring them. Not allowing the children to practice the tornado drills can affect them if an emergency comes. This violates obligation one because she is not making sure the children are safe. Of coures the drills are just practiced runs, but if the children forget to do because they didn’t practice, it could have horrible even deadly outcomes.

Mrs. Fisher’s car has broken down for the 3rd time this year, she is frustrated and knows that she will eventually need a new car. She often shares the tales of her auto challenges with her students. She is aware that one of her student’s parents owns a car dealership and she has recently begun to spend extra time with the student and giving the student extra credit. She plans to talk to the student later in the week one on one about her car situation in hopes that the child will speak to the parent.

In this scenario an educator is having personal issues with her car, it continues to break multiple times this year. She soon will need to get a new car because of this. She knows one of her student’s parents are owners of a car dealership. She then starts to treat the child special because of this in hopes they will talk to their parents to get the teacher a better deal on a car. This is a violation of obligation eight, having a relationship with a student for personal gain. The teacher can go to the parent's dealership, but shouldn’t use her students to get a better price on a vehicle.

In American History, Dr. Kai’s class has closely followed the government shutdown. Dr. Kai is a committed democrat with strong views opposing the current political party holding office (he does not express these views in class). The students in Dr. Kai’s class have been given multiple opportunities to express their views, debate respectfully with each other, and provide support of their views.

In this scenario, we are we have a teacher who has political about recent events currently with the government shutdown. He holds debates in his American History class. He allows them to express their opinions and debate respectively amount themselves. This would be violating obligation three if he was making the students to debate about his views and not letting them have diverse viewpoints. Though he is not because he is allowing them to say what they believe.

In this scenario, we have a teacher who is frustrated with her students to the point where she yells at them and devalues the students in front of the class. This violates obligation five on unnessaserrlily embarrassing the students. No matter how little effort the student puts into their work cannot compare to the humiliation of a mentor figure telling them such horrible things. The teacher needs to take a step back and reevaluate what she is saying to the student and how it can affect them mentally.