Faculty Assembly - Onboarding Seminar 2024

How can teachers support a positive work environment among colleagues?

• By criticizing other teachers' work

• By encouraging teamwork and mutual respect

• By focusing solely on one's task

• By avoiding participation in team activities

A new policy has been implemented requiring all teachers to submit lesson plans a week in advance. You disagree with this policy. What should you do?

• Ignore the policy and submit your lesson plans on your own schedule.

• Complain to your colleagues in your private group chat and ask them to join you in ignoring the policy.

• Follow the policy while voicing your concerns through the appropriate channels.

• Refuse to create lesson plans until the policy is changed.

During class, a student disrupts lessons by talking out loud and making jokes. What is the teacher's best course of action?

• Ignore the behavior and continue with the lesson.

• Reprimand the student in front of the class.

• Speak privately with the student to understand the cause of the behavior and set clear expectations.

• Send the student to the Principal's Office immediately.

At a Christmas party, a student lost their exchange gift worth P300. What would you do?

• Announce the loss to the entire party and ask if anyone has seen the gift.

• Blame the student for being careless and tell the them to be more responsible next time.

• Calmly address the situation by helping the student search first for the lost gift.

• Notify the parent about the lost gift and confront them that it has been paid out with your own money.

The school has a strict policy about use of cellphones during working hours. You find it challenging because you often use it for urgent calls and messenger chat. What should you do?

• Ignore the policy and use your phone whenever you need to.

• Leave your phone on silent and check it discreetly during class.

• Use a colleague's phone instead.

• Follow the policy and inform your contacts about your availability during school hours.

During a Parent-Teacher Conference, a parent approaches you about their dissatisfaction at their child's class mark. While upset, the parent insisted that you change the grade despite having rigorously observed the school's grading policy. How do you handle this situation?

• Immediately change the grade to avoid conflict.

• Explain the grading policy to the parent and offer to review the student's work together to ensure transparency and understanding.

• Ignore the parent's complaint.

• Argue with the parent and defend your grading decision without offering any review or explanation.

During a parent-teacher conference, a parent questions the fairness of a recent project grade their child received, believing it does not accurately reflect their effort. How do you handle this situation?

• Dismiss the parent's concern and reaffirm that the grade is final.

• Agree to increase the student's grade to avoid conflict with the parent.

• Refer the parent to the school's administration to discuss grading policies further.

• Explain the assessment criteria used for the project and how their child's performance aligned with those criteria.

As a Social Studies teacher, you prepared a lesson on current events which are controversial and subject to differing interpretations. A parent learned about what occurred during your class and complained that your lesson was biased and implied that you must only present one perspective that aligns with their beliefs. How do you handle this situation, considering teacher's rights to academic freedom?

• Yield to the parent's request who later turned out to be a Social Studies teacher.

• Modify the lesson plan to agree with the parent and maintain harmony.

• Explain to the parent the importance of presenting multiple perspectives that are crucial to fostering critical thinking and intellectual growth.

• Seek advice from school administration on how to handle the situation without compromising academic integrity.

You arrive late to work multiple times in a month due to unexpected traffic congestion. Your immediate supervisor schedules a meeting to discuss punctuality. What would you do?

• Ignore the meeting and continue with your work as usual.

• Explain the reason for tardiness and propose solutions to avoid future occurrences of tardiness.

• Defend the reason of tardiness by blaming external factors like traffic.

• Argue with your immediate supervisor about the importance of flexibility in work hours.

You arrived at school and realized that you wore the wrong uniform. Students and co-faculty noticed your attire, that is not in compliance with the uniform policy. How will you handle this situation?

• Blame the school administrator for not reminding about the uniform schedule.

• Ignore the oversight and continue with your day as usual.

• Apologize to students and colleagues for the unintentional oversight.

• Quickly go home to change into the correct uniform, causing a delay in your schedule.