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Code of Ethics
Read and review CEC’s Professional Ethical Principles for Special Educators found in column one of the tables below.
Determine your understanding of each of the 12 principles as they relate to you currently and to your future career.
Write this understanding in Column Two.
In a third column, consider what learning activities or opportunities would assist in expanding your professional skills, abilities, and knowledge within each principle.
Column One
Column Two
Column Three
CEC’s Professional Ethics
What does this mean to you? Or define the
ethical principle in your own terms.
What learning activities or opportunities do
you think could expand your professional
skills, abilities, and knowledge of this ethical
principle?
1.
Maintaining challenging expectations for individuals with exceptionalities to develop
the highest possible learning outcomes and quality of life potential in ways that respect their dignity, culture, language, and background. To me this means don’t bring the level of difficulty down to a level in which the learner won’t be challenged in some way. This will help the learner develop higher quality learning outcomes.
Create lessons and assignments that are challenging yet also create a path to the highest possible amount of material being learned. 2.
Maintaining a high level of professional competence and integrity and exercising professional judgment to benefit individuals with exceptionalities and their families. Stay professional at all times in order to help learners and their families.
Maintain professional standards, keep up with practicing teaching etiquette and communication.
3.
Promoting meaningful and inclusive participation of individuals with exceptionalities in their schools and communities. Include the learners with exceptionalities to strengthen relations with others
Create activities and assignments that combine groups of students
4.
Practicing collegially with others who are providing services to individuals with exceptionalities. Learn from others who are in the same field
Reach out to other educators and learn from their experiences.
5.
Developing relationships with families based on mutual respect and actively involving families and individuals with exceptionalities in educational decision making. Be in contact with the learners’ families while informing and communicating the educational process.
Create a schedule with parents for check ins and reports on how their child is processing throughout the academic year.
6.
Using evidence, instructional data, research, and professional knowledge to inform practice. Keep up on research and data to stay up to date.
Research more information on the subject of special education on a regular basis.
Column One
Column Two
Column Three
CEC’s Professional Ethics
What does this mean to you? Or, define the
ethical principle in your own terms.
What learning activities or opportunities do
you think could expand your professional
skills, abilities, and knowledge of this ethical
principle?
7.
Protecting and supporting the physical and
psychological safety of individuals with exceptionalities. Help the learner out and make sure they are always safe.
Create a learning environment that make the learner feel safe.
8.
Neither engaging in nor tolerating any practice that harms individuals with exceptionalities. Never allow or participate in anything hurting the learner.
Be aware of any bullying or threatening behavior towards learners with exceptionalities.
9.
Practicing within the professional ethics, standards, and policies of CEC; upholding laws, regulations, and policies that influence professional practice; and advocating improvements in the laws, regulations, and policies. Always follow the CEC standards. Make sure you uphold the laws and regulations.
Frequently study the CEC standard and regulations.
10. Advocating for professional conditions and
resources that will improve learning outcomes of individuals with exceptionalities. Look out for resources that will help the learners’ education.
Actively search for any resources that will assist the learner in the classroom.
11. Engaging in the improvement of the profession through active participation in professional organizations. Improve your teaching by participating through involved organizations.
Find organizations that participate in the teaching community that help out in special education.
12. Participating in the growth and dissemination of professional knowledge and skills.
Help spread the facts and information related to special education.
Using the research from above, take the information and use your own experience to partake in helping further development in the field.
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