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Download full textBaas, Alan – 1990
Although it is relatively simple to check on applicants' basic professional competency, ensuring the moral competency of potential school employees is much more difficult. This digest examines major legal issues, district liabilities and responsibilities, suggested guidelines, and information sources involving employee background checks. Of more…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Child Abuse, Elementary Secondary Education, Legal Responsibility
Lashway, Larry – 1996
Until very recently, ethical issues were given little attention in administrator-preparation programs. This digest outlines the ethical responsibilities of school leaders and the dilemmas that they face. It offers the following suggestions for resolving ethical dilemmas: (1) Leaders should have and be willing to act on a definite sense of ethical…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Elementary Secondary Education
Benninga, Jacques S. – 2003
This digest addresses two components in the moral and ethical preparation of teachers: identification and assessment of professional ethical concepts and structures in teacher education, and foundations and specific models for the preservice training of teachers of character. A teacher's first moral obligation is to provide excellent instruction.…
Descriptors: Character Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethical Instruction, Higher Education
Lashway, Larry – 1996
Until very recently, ethical issues were given little attention in administrator-preparation programs. This digest in Spanish outlines the ethical responsibilities of school leaders and the dilemmas that they face. It offers the following suggestions for resolving ethical dilemmas: (1) Leaders should have and be willing to act on a definite sense…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Elementary Secondary Education
Huey, Wayne C.; Remley, Theodore P., Jr. – 1990
This digest summarizes ethical and legal issues affecting school counselors. It emphasizes the importance of ethical standards, and of knowing the content, purposes, and limitations of professional codes of conduct as general guidelines for addressing difficult issues. Advice is offered on how to address colleagues' unethical behavior, and on…
Descriptors: Behavior Standards, Codes of Ethics, Compliance (Legal), Confidentiality
Wilcox, John R.; Ebbs, Susan L. – 1992
This brief report summarizes a longer document with the same title. It explains that institutions of higher education have a moral responsibility as disseminators of knowledge to foster proper values and ethical thinking in its students for the well-being of society. The collegiate ethos, the practices and customs of the institution, are important…
Descriptors: Colleges, Educational Environment, Educational Responsibility, Ethical Instruction
