Online Professionalism

If a teacher has authorization to electronically communicate with students, then they do not need to care about anything else.

• True, permission is the only policy.

• False, the matters discussed must also be monitored for classroom appropriateness.

What laws and policies must public school teachers abide by?

What is the most common way that teachers get into trouble with electronic media?

• Using inapproriate language.

• Making a classroom webpage.

• Boundary violations.

• Inadequate privacy settings.

Who must comply with the national laws, state laws, district policies, and institutional policies for electronic media/communication?

• Teachers

• All students who graduated from the district.

• Current Students

• Administration and other members of the district.

• Student-Teachers

Can social media posts ever be made completely private?

• No.

• Yes.

Select the answers that could be deemed as inappropriate actions for teachers.

• Using their school email account to communicate with students.

• Using personal email accounts to communicate with students.

• "Friending" students on social media.

• Speaking negatively about students on social media.

The way others _____ a teacher's post can affect the teacher.

What is "a typically not-well-defined clause in teacher contracts that allows employers to hold teachers accountable for the morality of their actions"?

Professional standards can have the impact of restricting the freedoms of which amendment when evaluating teachers?

• Fifth Amendment right

• Ninth Amendment righs

• Fifteenth Amendment rights

• First Amendment rights

A teacher can be punished for questionable or inappropriate behavior newly discovered by the district that occurred 15 years ago.

• True

• False