Mindlab

Ethical and Legal Issues and Decision Making Practices:  l'm using (Rolfe, 2001)'s self reflective model for an ethical dilemma that occurred when I was the year 9 Dean.  Helton and Ray (2005) mention unethical scenarios experienced by teachers, for me this situation involved school and law policies, and student accusations. The “What”: A student was being bullied online via social media.  I followed the school's protocol for a restorative session to address the online bullying. I took proper documentation notes and filled incident reports. Parents, guidance counsellors, and the tutor teachers were notified of the situation. Unfortunately I was placed in an ethical dilemma with a revised New Zealand law against online bullying . From the Beehive.Gov site (2017) Ms. Adams is quoted as saying “The Harmful Digital Communications Act made it illegal to send messages and post material online that deliberately causes a victim serious emotional distress,” . Each ...

As the course is moving into its final phase, I have been looking over my inquiry process.  Have I been focusing (not the spiral focus) too much on checking for student input and opinion instead of collecting student input on my hunches.  Being observant within my classes I just assumed that what ever I came up with during Maths topics was relevant for the students.  Maybe I should have gathered some data on students for my hunches to develop more of a focus for my class.  Any thoughts from anyone else?