Find cases of teachers’ unacceptable
professional conduct both in English speaking countries and in Russia. Compare
the seriousness of cases and the punishment. It's enough to illustrate one example.
"A maths teacher who branded Barack Obama a n****** in front of a class of children as young as 15 has astonishingly been allowed to go back into the classroom. Michael Webb, who also made anti-Jewish comments, escaped a classroom ban despite being found guilty of unacceptable professional conduct by a teaching body.
He was found guilty of unacceptable professional conduct by the General Teaching Council (GTC) on Thursday. Astonishingly, Webb escaped being struck off and received a reprimand which will stay on his record for two years".
"A primary school teacher who trawled the internet during lessons was found guilty of unacceptable professional conduct today. Sian Mediana, who was head of Fairwater primary school's behaviour unit, in Cardiff, admitted accessing the internet on the computer in her classroom to check her bank account and order school books, but denied it was during lessons. A panel of the General Teaching Council for Wales, sitting in Cardiff, said it accepted the evidence of Mediana's two teaching assistants that she regularly used the internet for personal use during working hours".
This news shows how attentive British Teaching councils are towards teachers' break of professional dicipline. Such case woudn;t have been punished and even noticed in Russia.
"More than one in 10 school teachers accused of misconduct last year had used social networking sites and email to forge inappropriate relationships with their pupils, an analysis of disciplinary cases has found. Facebook, Twitter, online chatrooms and emails were used to befriend children in 43 of the cases brought to the regulator, the General Teaching Council for England in 2011. Eighteen teachers were given prohibition orders and struck off, while 14 were suspended. In all, the GTC heard 336 cases of "unacceptable professional conduct" last year".
In Russia teachers and pupils are often friends in social networking sites. I don't see anything bad in it. The bans? sited in the article touches the questions of "inappropriate and sexually explicit" conversations between teachers and pupils. That's why the friendship between pupils and teachers in social sites is banned.
"The whole thing got me thinking about the subtle and trivially unprofessional behaviors that we as teachers sometimes engage in:
1. Giving an assignment mainly because you want to write about it on your blog. Heh.
2. Positioning yourself towards the sun during recess to darken your tan.
3. Talking on a cell phone while walking the class to lunch.
4. Eating in front of students.
5. Setting up a book buddies routine (or other combined class activity) so you and your colleague can chat while the kids work.
6. Always scheduling book fair visits, guest speakers, and other classroom diversions into the time slot of the subject or class you least enjoy teaching.
7. Turning off the classroom lights after dismissal so no one will knock on the door while you’re grading papers.
8. Wearing house shoes or slippers in the classroom [this was huge in D.C.].
9. Having a student fetch your sweater, phone, or keys from across the room.
10. Setting up a classroom behavior system that involves pizza party rewards because you love Papa Johns". http://thecornerstoneforteachers.com/2009/03/top-10-harmlessly-unprofessional.html
A Batavia High School teacher is under fire from school administrators after he reportedly told his students they did not have to answer questions about their behavior, which included their use of drugs and alcohol, on a survey designed to ferret out Batavia students' mental acumen.
Teacher John Dryden, whose actions have garnered support from students, parents and some Batavia officials, told his students they had a constitutional 5th Amendment right to not incriminate themselves with answers to the school survey that was given out on April 18. The individual surveys had each student’s name printed on it, according to a report by the Daily Herald.
"Former teacher at Francis Combe School who swore at students found guilty of unprofessional conduct
The Committee said that, on October 6 2008, Mr Woodville acted inappropriately and unprofessionally in compiling a "fit list" of teachers, with students. The findings say that the list was “derogatory to colleagues”.
The Committee also found that he compiled the list of attractive teachers with a Year 7 class, describing one colleague as having “a really good body". It rejected his claim that the list was actually a list of the class’ favourite teachers.
The findings also say that he “repeatedly used inappropriate language in front of students”, with pupils claiming he swore in front of them". http://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/news/9416116.Teacher_who_swore_at_students_found_guilty_of_unprofessional_conduct/
This case really deserves much attention. I hope that similar conduct of Russian teachers would be punished too.
"Two head teachers spent Christmas in gloomy moods after being dismissed from their jobs for assisting their pupils in answering questions during final external examinations. They were fired together with an ordinary teacher, who also committed the same offence. They were found to have used their positions at the schools to instruct the invigilators to give correct answers to pupils as they wrote their Primary Certificate exam.They assisted about 50 pupils with answers". Russian mass media makes us believe that teachers helping pupils during final state exam are also punished though we don't know any obvious examples. I doubt that teachers at Russian primary schools can be fired for helping their pupils with tests.
"I have a friend - who has been in school to be a teacher for quite some time. He graduated the other day this weekend (hooray for him!) and has been teaching already for a couple months. He got high marks on his reviews, everything - but he has been fired today due to the principal finding a video of him that was made approximately 3 years ago, of him taking a can of bear mace in the face".
I don't think that the same cese would have been treated the same way. Though I am not agree with the punishment for this situation.
"A maths teacher who branded Barack Obama a n****** in front of a class of children as young as 15 has astonishingly been allowed to go back into the classroom.
ОтветитьУдалитьMichael Webb, who also made anti-Jewish comments, escaped a classroom ban despite being found guilty of unacceptable professional conduct by a teaching body.
He was found guilty of unacceptable professional conduct by the General Teaching Council (GTC) on Thursday.
Astonishingly, Webb escaped being struck off and received a reprimand which will stay on his record for two years".
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2015179/Teacher-racist-comments-Cambridge-classroom-escapes-ban.html#ixzz2h6tvyJW7
This example shows how serious is the attitude to rasism in Great Britain. The similar situation in Russia woudn't be payed attention to at all.
"A primary school teacher who trawled the internet during lessons was found guilty of unacceptable professional conduct today.
ОтветитьУдалитьSian Mediana, who was head of Fairwater primary school's behaviour unit, in Cardiff, admitted accessing the internet on the computer in her classroom to check her bank account and order school books, but denied it was during lessons.
A panel of the General Teaching Council for Wales, sitting in Cardiff, said it accepted the evidence of Mediana's two teaching assistants that she regularly used the internet for personal use during working hours".
This news shows how attentive British Teaching councils are towards teachers' break of professional dicipline. Such case woudn;t have been punished and even noticed in Russia.
"More than one in 10 school teachers accused of misconduct last year had used social networking sites and email to forge inappropriate relationships with their pupils, an analysis of disciplinary cases has found.
ОтветитьУдалитьFacebook, Twitter, online chatrooms and emails were used to befriend children in 43 of the cases brought to the regulator, the General Teaching Council for England in 2011. Eighteen teachers were given prohibition orders and struck off, while 14 were suspended. In all, the GTC heard 336 cases of "unacceptable professional conduct" last year".
In Russia teachers and pupils are often friends in social networking sites. I don't see anything bad in it. The bans? sited in the article touches the questions of "inappropriate and sexually explicit" conversations between teachers and pupils. That's why the friendship between pupils and teachers in social sites is banned.
"The whole thing got me thinking about the subtle and trivially unprofessional behaviors that we as teachers sometimes engage in:
ОтветитьУдалить1. Giving an assignment mainly because you want to write about it on your blog. Heh.
2. Positioning yourself towards the sun during recess to darken your tan.
3. Talking on a cell phone while walking the class to lunch.
4. Eating in front of students.
5. Setting up a book buddies routine (or other combined class activity) so you and your colleague can chat while the kids work.
6. Always scheduling book fair visits, guest speakers, and other classroom diversions into the time slot of the subject or class you least enjoy teaching.
7. Turning off the classroom lights after dismissal so no one will knock on the door while you’re grading papers.
8. Wearing house shoes or slippers in the classroom [this was huge in D.C.].
9. Having a student fetch your sweater, phone, or keys from across the room.
10. Setting up a classroom behavior system that involves pizza party rewards because you love Papa Johns". http://thecornerstoneforteachers.com/2009/03/top-10-harmlessly-unprofessional.html
A Batavia High School teacher is under fire from school administrators after he reportedly told his students they did not have to answer questions about their behavior, which included their use of drugs and alcohol, on a survey designed to ferret out Batavia students' mental acumen.
ОтветитьУдалитьTeacher John Dryden, whose actions have garnered support from students, parents and some Batavia officials, told his students they had a constitutional 5th Amendment right to not incriminate themselves with answers to the school survey that was given out on April 18. The individual surveys had each student’s name printed on it, according to a report by the Daily Herald.
Source: http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Teacher-Under-Fire-for-Advising-Students-of-Their-Rights-209231311.html#ixzz2hIp3mBRl
"Former teacher at Francis Combe School who swore at students found guilty of unprofessional conduct
ОтветитьУдалитьThe Committee said that, on October 6 2008, Mr Woodville acted inappropriately and unprofessionally in compiling a "fit list" of teachers, with students. The findings say that the list was “derogatory to colleagues”.
The Committee also found that he compiled the list of attractive teachers with a Year 7 class, describing one colleague as having “a really good body". It rejected his claim that the list was actually a list of the class’ favourite teachers.
The findings also say that he “repeatedly used inappropriate language in front of students”, with pupils claiming he swore in front of them". http://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/news/9416116.Teacher_who_swore_at_students_found_guilty_of_unprofessional_conduct/
This case really deserves much attention. I hope that similar conduct of Russian teachers would be punished too.
"Two head teachers spent Christmas in gloomy moods after being dismissed from their jobs for assisting their pupils in answering questions during final external examinations.
ОтветитьУдалитьThey were fired together with an ordinary teacher, who also committed the same offence.
They were found to have used their positions at the schools to instruct the invigilators to give correct answers to pupils as they wrote their Primary Certificate exam.They assisted about 50 pupils with answers".
Russian mass media makes us believe that teachers helping pupils during final state exam are also punished though we don't know any obvious examples. I doubt that teachers at Russian primary schools can be fired for helping their pupils with tests.
"I have a friend - who has been in school to be a teacher for quite some time. He graduated the other day this weekend (hooray for him!) and has been teaching already for a couple months. He got high marks on his reviews, everything - but he has been fired today due to the principal finding a video of him that was made approximately 3 years ago, of him taking a can of bear mace in the face".
ОтветитьУдалитьI don't think that the same cese would have been treated the same way. Though I am not agree with the punishment for this situation.