PIL Course - PA Educators: Your Ethical Codes & School Law
Awards 25 PIL hours on PERMS to School and System Leaders (SSL).
Composed of four, 3 hour, online sessions meeting once a week over four consecutive weeks.
Cost is $325 paid through Paypal. To pay $325 by school check you must make prior arrangements with Tom Bailey at 412.452.1677.
Approved by PDE in August, 2022
PIL Course Description – This Course equips participants with knowledge of the:
- Model Code of Ethics for Educators;
- PA Code of Professional Practice & Conduct for Educators;
- differences between a code of ethics and code of conduct;
- Educator Discipline Act; and
- PA Professional Standards & Practices Commission.
Learning Objectives. SSLs will learn to:
- Participate in and facilitate peer discussion of case studies based upon common ethical dilemmas faced by PA educators.
- 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 and Educators take Pre and Post Assessments to show improvement and are submitted to PDE as 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.
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