This course was approved by Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) in August, 2022. It awards 25 PIL hours on PERMS to School and System Leaders (SSL).
It is composed of four, 3 hour, online sessions meeting once a week over four consecutive weeks.
PIL Course Description – This Course equips participants with knowledge of the:
• 5 principles
of the Model Code of Ethics for Educators;
• values,
expected and forbidden conduct set forth in the PA Code of Professional
Practice & Conduct for Educators;
• differences
between a code of ethics and code of conduct;
• the
complaint, investigation and due process sections within the Educator
Discipline Act; and
• the
Members, website resources and functions of the PA Professional Standards &
Practices Commission as well as the role they play in the professional
disciplinary process for educators.
Learning Objectives. SSLs will learn to:
Participate in and facilitate
peer discussion of case studies based upon common ethical dilemmas faced by PA
educators while weighing possible outcomes and proactive measures to be taken.
SSLs are required to form a small (3-5 persons) Ethics
Professional Learning Community with educators of their choice from his/her
Local Education Agency. SSLs reteach 70% of materials they learn to Ethics PLC
members including case studies.
SSLs and Educators take Pre and
Post Assessments to show improvement and are submitted to PDE as part
of Culminating Project. SSL & Educator feedback is also part of
Culminating Project.
At least two
Educators are required to teach an ethics lesson to one of their classes based upon a student code of conduct. Pre and Post Assessments are taken to show
student achievement and are also submitted to PDE as part of Culminating Project.
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