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Welcome to School Law for Elementary Education majors. Here you will find information on school laws relevant to teaching.
Teachers need to understand the legal requirements of the profession. At the end of the 6 sessions in this module on School Law, you will have a basic understanding about the different aspects of law that apply to educators. This module includes the most important information from the following book.
Schimmel, D. Stellman, L.R., Conlon, C.K., & Fischer, L. (2015). Teachers and the law - 9th edition. Boston, MA: Pearson.
The content has been updated as necessary based on the latest laws passed by the Indiana Legislature and interpretations (rulings) of education law by the US Supreme Court. There are 6 videos (6 to 10 minutes in length). Each video includes examples used to illustrate the points of law covered in the video.
Dr. Kathy Bauserman
Dr. Debra Knaebel
References
Schimmel, D., Stellman, L.R., Conlon, C. K., & Fischer, L. (2015). Teachers and the law (9th ed.) . Boston, MA: Pearson.
School Law
Work through each Lesson module to learn about the major topics of school law that affects classroom teachers.
Lesson 1: Introduction, Contracts, and Employment
Lesson 2: Due Process, Privacy Rights, and Student Records
Lesson 3: Child Abuse and Neglect
Lesson 4: Discrimination (Racial and Sexual)
Lesson 5: Freedom of Expression (Teachers and Students)
Lesson 6: Limits to Freedom (copyright, slander, liable)
Upon successful completion of all modules, you will receive a certificate for your professional portfolio.
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This School Law Unit is self paced instructional unit. The entire unit must be finished before the start of Study Week. Our course calendar (available to you in Canvas) will give due dates for the unit assessments (quizzes) to help you stay on track. It is wise for you to follow these quiz due dates and not overwhelm yourself at the end of the semester attempting to finish items.
You will have 3 attempts at the quizzes. The quizzes pull from a question pool, so do not expect to see the same questions. Quizzes will not be reopened once Study Week starts.
You may show me your completed paperwork at the end of class as you go.
Note: When watching the instructional videos, it is best that you find a quiet place to watch the videos. Take notes while watching the videos by pausing the clip to jot down your notes. At any point in time, if you do not understand or missed something, you can rewind or re-watch the video.
Lesson 1: Introduction, Contracts, and Employment
School law reflects the interests of many different parties in schools; the interests of parents, students, the communities in which the parents and students live and the teachers who work in schools. Furthermore,school law serves important national goals. Both federal and state law impacts education as education is one of government’s most important services to individual citizens.
Lesson 2: Due Process, Privacy, and Student Records
It is commonly accepted among lawyers that a right without adequate procedures to protect and enforce it is no right at all. This point was recognized by the framers of the U.S Constitution when they inserted the right to due process of law in both the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments. The core idea of due process is that governmental officials act fairly.
Lesson 3: Child Abuse and Neglect
Lesson 4: Discrimination
(Racial and Sexual)
In one of the most famous decisions the Supreme Court ever decided, Brown v. Board of Education,[1] the Court stated that “today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments.”
Lesson 5: Freedom of Expression
(Teachers and Students)
Lesson 6: Limits to Freedom
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