ch. 10 quiz Flashcards
What is Misfeasance?
Failure to act in a proper manner to prevent harm.
What is Malfeasance?
Deliberately acting improperly and causing harm to someone.
What is nonfeasance?
Failure to exercise appropriate responsibility that results i someone’s being harmed.
Explain Fair Use.
A legal principle allowing limited use of copyrighted materials. teachers must observe 3 criteria: brevity, spontaneity, and cumulative effect.
What is the Zero-Tolerance Policy?
Rigorous school rules that offer little or no flexibility to student infractions involving alcohol, drugs, tobacco, violence and weapons. Students usually expelled for violations
What is the Cumulative Effect?
The total number of works reproduces
What is Corporal Punishment?
the physical disciplining of a student by a school employee
What is Due Process?
The procedural requirements that must be follow in such areas as student and teacher discipline and placement in special education programs. Due process exist to safeguard individuals from arbitrary, capricious or unreasonable policies, practices or actions.
Explain Academic Freedom.
The opportunity for teachers and students to learn, teach, study, research, and question without censorship, coercion, or external political and other restrictive influences
What is Traditional Inculcation?
An approach to moral education that transmits a common set of values to students
When a student requires disciplining, the student must be informed of the rule he or she has broken, as well as the applicable evidence. This action is known as _____.
Due Process.
Due Process is protected by which amendment?
The 14th.
Lisa, an English teacher at the local public high school has assigned her students to read Ayn Rand’s the Fountainhead for the year’s reading project, despite the school requiring the class to read F. Scott Fitzgerald’s the Great Gatsby. When the principal discovers Lisa’s assignment he immediately tells her to change the required reading to Great Gatsby. She feels she is not being allowed to teach in the manner she feels is beneficial to her students and takes it up in court. What right does Lisa think she has, and will she win?
Academic Freedom / The right to teach without coercion, censorship, or other restrictive interference IS NOT ABSOLUTE.
Lisa, a teacher, reads several articles by the same author. She thinks the author has a great perspective and feels his writings are appropriate to her class lessons. Lisa chooses 7 of her favorite articles, prints them and distributes to her class. Has she broken the law? If so, how?
Yes, Lisa should have received written permission from the author or publisher because she has exceeded the allowed number of articles she can take spontaneously from one author. According to the cumulative effect, she is only allowed 1 complete piece, or 2 excerpts from one author within a semester.
