This course is designed to provide you with a broad understanding of the major legal and ethical principles and issues that relate to teaching in Canadian schools, and to have you gain a familiarity with the important ethical and legal dimensions that are likely to affect an educator's professional life.
Outline
EDUC 404 is divided into eight units listed below.
Unit 1: Teachers, Professional Ethics, and Ethical Decision Making
Unit 2: Legal Structures and the Legal Context of Canadian Education.
Unit 3: Teaching as a Profession and a Teachers' Private Life
Unit 4: Teachers and the Duty of Care
Unit 5: Legal Rights of Students and Student Rights in Relation to Teachers
Unit 6: Discipline and Punishment
Unit 7: Controversy in the Classroom
Unit 8: Diversity, Equity, and Fairness
Evaluation
To receive credit for EDUC 404, you must achieve a minimum grade of D (50 percent) on each assignment, and a minimum grade of D (50 percent) on the final examination. The weighting of the course assignments is as follows:
Activity
Weight
Assignment 1
10%
Assignment 2
15%
Assignment 3
15%
Assignment 4
20%
Final Exam
40%
Total
100%
The final examination for this course must be taken online with an AU-approved exam invigilator at an approved invigilation centre. It is your responsibility to ensure your chosen invigilation centre can accommodate online exams. For a list of invigilators who can accommodate online exams, visit the Exam Invigilation Network.
To learn more about assignments and examinations, please refer to Athabasca University's online Calendar.
Materials
Crook, K. & Truscott, T. (2007). Ethics and law for teachers. Toronto: Thomson Nelson. (Print)
Strike, K. A & Soltis, J. F. (2009). The ethics of teaching (5th ed.). New York: Teachers College Columbia University. (Print)
Other materials
The course materials include a course manual and assignments, study guide, and a reading file
Challenge for Credit
Overview
The Challenge for Credit process allows you to demonstrate that you have acquired a command of the general subject matter, knowledge, intellectual and/or other skills that would normally be found in a university-level course.
Full information about Challenge for Credit can be found in the Undergraduate Calendar.
Evaluation
To receive credit for EDUC 404 challenge registration, you must achieve a grade of at least D (50 percent) on the examination.
Athabasca University reserves the right to amend course outlines occasionally and without notice. Courses offered by other delivery methods may vary from their individualized-study counterparts.
Opened in Revision 1, January 25, 2007
Updated July 26, 2021, by Student & Academic Services