{"id":825,"date":"2013-01-24T11:42:03","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T18:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/catherinerawn\/?p=825"},"modified":"2013-01-24T11:42:03","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T18:42:03","slug":"ethics-in-teaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/catherinerawn\/2013\/01\/24\/ethics-in-teaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethics in Teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I gave a guest lesson in an &#8220;Ethics and Professional Issues&#8221; seminar for clinical graduate students. Although I encounter ethical issues in teaching routinely, preparing for this guest lesson gave me a chance to deliberately examine all the activities involved in teaching using the lens of ethics. My thinking was greatly informed by the edited volume called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apa.org\/pubs\/books\/4311035.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Teaching Ethically<\/em><\/a>\u00a0that came out last year, which also prompted me to examine the APA code of ethics.<\/p>\n<p>I came up with a list of domains in teaching where ethical issues pop up. You might be surprised by some of these, but not by others. Do you have anything to add?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Competency\n<ul>\n<li>Content knowledge (what to teach)<\/li>\n<li>Pedagogical knowledge (how best to teach it; evidence-based assessment)<\/li>\n<li>Adequate preparation (class, course)<\/li>\n<li>Classroom management (e.g., strategies for dealing with sensitive issues like mental illness, gender differences, ugly history of IQ scores)<\/li>\n<li>Self-assess \u201cboundaries of competence\u201d and don\u2019t work beyond them (if must, obtain training)<\/li>\n<li>Professional development<\/li>\n<li>Seeking advice from and collaborating with colleagues to improve learning<\/li>\n<li>Continual improvement (self, course, program, degree)<\/li>\n<li>Scholarly teaching\/SoTL: using new method without adequate research or preparation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Fairness\n<ul>\n<li>Diversity and inclusivity (access to materials including cost of the textbook, self-disclosure in class activities)<\/li>\n<li>Assigning a textbook you don\u2019t use (much)<\/li>\n<li>Discourage and pursue cases of plagiarism, cheating<\/li>\n<li>Textbook cost<\/li>\n<li>Grading and evaluation is clear, competently done, consistent<\/li>\n<li>Doing the SoTL work including withholding treatment to one group<\/li>\n<li>Accommodations for special circumstances: extra grade chances, re-grades, make up a missed exam<\/li>\n<li>Accurately describe your course, set up appropriate expectations (e.g., grades)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Faculty-student relationships\n<ul>\n<li>Trust and power<\/li>\n<li>Authorship with graduate and undergraduate student collaborators<\/li>\n<li>Writing reference letters for students you know have slim chances of getting in somewhere or who you don\u2019t know that well (<em>and not writing letters when you can<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>Avoiding multiple (conflicting) roles: research supervisor, employer, teacher, mentor, evaluator, researcher (SoTL), TA\/teaching supervisor<\/li>\n<li>Consider the impact of challenging students\u2019 core beliefs (e.g., God, evolution, trust in authority, gay rights\u2026)<\/li>\n<li>Social media: Facebook friends, Twitter following \u00e0 blurring edge of professional relationship<\/li>\n<li>Assigning a textbook when you\u2019re and author and will receive royalties<\/li>\n<li>Accepting gifts from students (and textbook publishers, for that matter)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Confidentiality\n<ul>\n<li>Grades files shared over email (security)<\/li>\n<li>Sending grades over email to students using non-UBC email addresses<\/li>\n<li>Storage and confidential shredding of paper material<\/li>\n<li>Non-disclosure to parents<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Law\n<ul>\n<li>Understanding copyright laws (including digital copyright)<\/li>\n<li>Complying with copyright laws<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I gave a guest lesson in an &#8220;Ethics and Professional Issues&#8221; seminar for clinical graduate students. 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