Legal Considerations of Teaching

Performance Objectives:

• The teacher candidate will distinguish between tort and criminal liability.
• The teacher candidate will provide definitions of:
  • ordinary care.
  • negligence.
  • in loco parentis.
  • test of forseeability.
  • official capacity as teacher.
  • mandated reporter.
  • willful and wanton misconduct
  • negligence
  • immunity
• The teacher candidate will distinguish between willful and wanton misconduct and negligence.
• The teacher candidate will identify science teaching obligations as stipulated by law.
• The teacher candidate will state the source of teacher authority, and its relationship to other legal authority
• The teacher candidate will identify areas of concern science teachers, including the following:
  • pressure and interest groups, and
  • accounting procedures.
• The teacher candidate will have a basic understanding of how to handle legal problems should they arise by taking a proactive stance.
• The teacher candidate will state basic strategies for avoiding potentially litigious situations.
• The teacher candidate will give strategies to help in negotiating legal problems
• The teacher candidate will state the procedures and rules of mandatory reporting.
• The teacher candidate will differentiate between situations involving immunity and liability.
  

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Science Teaching and the Law (PowerPoint presentation)

Mandated Illinois Reporter Website

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