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Reply to other student posts with a 200-word reply. In your reply, apply the code of ethics to a relevant situation you have observed, experienced, or viewed in current events. Also, discuss strategies that can assist educational leaders to avoid violations of a specific aspect of the code.
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Ethics and laws are guidelines in which we can tactfully maneuver around them or ignore them. Both are right and left boundaries which ultimately guide us to the right path. Ethics impact everyone and a leader should be mindful of morals, norms, laws, and current situations. Announcing personal or organizational ethics without following them is comparable to displaying a diploma or certification from a prestigious university. While the diploma is displayed proudly on the shelf or wall, it is a nice décor to boost confidence and add no value. The diploma is a piece of paper, and the paper does not contribute to human relationships.
Displaying ethics without following them is similar to displaying your diploma without establishing a meaningful human relationship. As stated by Rebore (2014), “the quality of that relationship can determine the extent to which someone can be of assistance” (p. 89). Ethical and effective leaders need good human relationship skills (Rebore, 2014). An effective leader understands and knows when a follower or consumer is mad and curses at the situation and not at the leader. While an educated leader, might use regulations or ethics to subside the individual to the leader’s power, but the leader failed to establish an effective relationship.
In agreement with Rebore, the past influences the present. From experience, good leaders listened to their followers and discarded the follower’s emotions. Leaders found the underlying issue and guided the follower by displaying regulations or ethics to the emotional follower. We cannot pick and choose our ethics or which organization ethics to follow. Ethics were established by the collective for a reason. Therefore, educators’ leaders should give the new teacher a review of state ethics and establish continuing education on ethics.
When a follower is knowledgeable of ethics and laws, they can find solutions to current issues and reduce emotional reactions. The Office of the Secretary of State as the Texas Administrative Code (TEA) established Code of Ethics and Standard Practices for Texas Educators Rule 247.2. The established Texas code of ethics includes Title 19: Education Title Part 7: State Board For Educator Certification Chapter 247: Educator’s code of ethics. Title 19-part 7F states educators “shall not falsify records, or direct or coerce others to do so” (TEA, 2016). This rule was violated when a principal told me to give fifty to students who failed to turn in the homework.
In 2015, I was not aware of the Code of Ethics and Standards Practice for Educators nor the Model Code of Ethics for Educators (MCEE). Yet, past experience gave me the innate ability to know it was unethical to give a student a grade which they did not earn. As Rebore states (2014), the “unconscious is a reservoir of memories, feelings, desires, and impulses” (p. 90). An effective leader understands their followers’ unconscious is established from past experiences. These experiences or unconscious arises in difficult situations.
Finally, the MCEE is similar to rule 247.2 Title 19 Part 7. Both codes of ethics can be summarized as do no harm. Title 19 Part 7 is a direct list outlining how educators should not do while the MCEE is a broad version of Texas’ code of ethics. I believe the MCEE was established to fit every state just like the Constitution was established for all the states or the Ten Commandments was established for all Christians.
References
Rebore, R. W. (2014). The ethics of educational leadership (2nd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson
TEA. (2016, December 27). Code of Ethics and Standard Practices for Texas Educators. Retrieved September 26, 2018, from http://texreg.sos.state.tx.us/public/readtac$ext.TacPage?sl=R&app=9&p_dir=&p_rloc=&p_tloc=&p_ploc=&pg=1&p_tac=&ti=19&pt=7&ch=247&rl=2.
