Those who come in contact with students at the post-secondary level face a myriad of potential legal challenges in their interactions with students and others. All members of the academic community should be familiar with the more common legal issues and to plan accordingly to avoid future problems. This article explores FERPA in the classroom, reasonable accommodations for students with disabilities, concerns about the transferability of course work, the syllabus and related issues, copyright violations, document retention, and situations involving student and faculty misconduct. An annual professional development seminar addressing these legal concerns should be provided to those new to the academy and for higher education veterans.
School districts use a variety of professional development initiatives, many of them successfully. Unfortunately, teachers often return to their previous ways of teaching soon after the initiatives are over. Consequently, sustaining or growing the results of these initiatives is challenging. This case study examines one Mid-western metropolitan school district's professional development coaching initiative through the eyes of four coaches who described their roles as coaches, the perceived success of the initiative, and their perceptions of what was needed to sustain that success after returning to their classrooms. Data were gathered via survey, documents provided by the district administration, and individual interviews with the coaches. Results indicated that coaches felt there was a...
Field experience has been proven to be superior to traditional campus-based teacher education programs. However, the public school establishment clings to outmoded structures despite the effectiveness of professional development schools.
Youth in correctional facilities experience a broad range of educational, psychological, medical, and social needs. Professional development, a systemic process that improves the likelihood of student success by enhancing educator abilities, is a powerful way to positively affect student outcomes in correctional settings. This article offers a professional development framework designed for the juvenile justice system. It includes information on the background and purpose of professional development, and provides the structure, objectives and components necessary to achieve a capacitybuilding professional development model in correctional education settings. In addition, examples of the National Center on Education, Disability, and Juvenile Justice (EDJJ) professional development activi...
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