Classes & Workshops
Maintaining Ethics and Professional Boundaries in Our Schools
Protecting Teachers and the Students They Serve
This is an ethics protection/violation prevention course for middle and high school teachers and administrators. It is not intended for educators or administrators who are dealing with disciplinary procedures. The purpose of this course is to reduce a teacher’s or administrator’s violation potential.
The most unique ethics course ever developed for teachers, Maintaining Ethics and Professional Boundaries in Our Schools is an online, interactive, computerized experience based on the same teaching tools used to train physicians. The course is specially designed to minimize a teacher’s potential for an unfounded accusation or an actual violation of codes of ethics, school policies, regulations, or state statute.
This course has been created with the knowledge that all professionals have a violation potential that dynamically changes in response to professional risk factors and personal vulnerabilities. Most teachers are unaware of these factors, which explains why an ethical educator can commit an unethical act during a susceptible period in his or her personal life.
For its primary purpose, this course will guide you through a reflective experience that will bring understanding to your violation potential. As you gain insight, the program will automatically create your individualized Stratified Ethics Protection Plan for the maintenance of a low violation potential and a safer teaching environment.
If you believe you need this course, you do.
If you believe you do not need this course, you really do!
Credits: 6 contact hours/0.6 CE credits
Cost: $125
Version: Middle School / High School Edition
Format: an online course completed at your own pace
Available year-round
Registration will be available soon.
If you are interested in this course, please send an email to ccee@unc.edu.
Course Goal
The goal of the course is to reduce the occurrence of ethical and boundary transgressions committed by educators.
Course Objectives
Participants shall…
- Acquire a working understanding of the Boundary/Ethics Formula© in order to reduce their violation potential for ethical, boundary, and policy transgressions.
- Improve ethical decision making.
- Develop and implement a Stratified Ethics Protection Plan© to safeguard their students, colleagues, school, profession, and themselves.
This course is not intended for educators/administrators who are already dealing with disciplinary procedures, i.e. meaning those who have already committed a violation or have been accused of a breach of ethics, boundaries, law, or policy.
The course Maintaining Ethics and Professional Boundaries in Our Schools was developed by Professional Boundaries, Inc. It is offered to teachers in North Carolina by UNC's School of Education in collaboration with Professional Boundaries, Inc.