The Education Bureau announced today (15th) the "Guidelines for Teachers' Professional Ethics", listing 11 cases that have been handled and substantiated in the past, explaining the punishment of teachers involved by the Education Bureau. Among the cases of similar nature, some people put cards on them, while others only gave warnings.
Two of the cases involved a male teacher's communication with a junior high school girl with a lot of sexual content, and many messages that teased the female student to engage in intimate behavior with them, and they were eventually nailed down.
In another case, a teacher was issued a warning letter for staying at the home of a same-sex student without the consent of the parents.
Case sharing included a teacher who continued to use a large number of biased textbooks to teach high school general studies. The content contained a derogatory position on the country, which easily aroused readers' resentment towards the country, and was "pinned" as a result.
When asked about the "white paper movement" that occurred earlier in the Mainland and whether the classroom could cover related issues, Cai Ruolian, the director of the Education Bureau, asked: "What is happening in society should I explain? What grade should I tell? What grade should the first class talk about?" What’s the point of blank paper?” It’s not that talking is not allowed, but students’ time should not be taken up because of emotions, which is considered unprofessional behavior.
The Education Bureau announced the "Guidelines for Teachers' Professional Ethics", which listed eight categories, and Cai Ruolian, the director of the Education Bureau, personally explained the drawings.
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In the appendix of the "Guidelines", the Education Bureau selects cases that the bureau has handled and established in the past, explaining that teachers should have professional ethics and behavior, as well as follow-up and punishment of teachers involved.
Male teacher sent teasing and intimate behavior messages to junior high school girls, and his registration was cancelled.
Among them, some male teachers communicated with junior high school female students through social communication software, the content contained a lot of sexually explicit content, and there were also many messages that teased female students to engage in intimate behavior with them.
Although the teacher did not have sexual relations with the students, the Education Bureau believes that he abused his identity and power as a teacher, had perverse thoughts and extremely bad thoughts and behaviors towards the students, seriously violated the professional ethics of teachers, and was not suitable and appropriate to be a teacher. Therefore, its registration was canceled according to the Education Ordinance.
The education bureau issued a warning letter to the teacher who stayed at the home of a same-sex student without reasonable reason
In another case, a teacher arranged after-school sports training for a student of the same sex without the consent of the parents, and had many off-campus activities with the student alone, and stayed at the student's home when the student's family was out.
The Education Bureau pointed out that in this case, without reasonable reason and without the consent of the school and parents, the teacher conducted off-campus activities alone with individual students, and even visited and stayed at the student’s home without reasonable reason, which violated professional ethics and education. The bureau issued warning letters to teachers.
The Education Bureau pointed out that teachers in the home of live-in students may be inexperienced due to new recruits
When the Education Bureau met with the media today, it explained that the teacher in the first case was involved in immoral behavior and distributed a large amount of sex-related information, while the teacher in the second case may be new and inexperienced, so the Education Bureau will review it on a case-by-case basis Severity, and then decide whether to disqualify teachers for life.
▼On December 15, the Education Bureau announced the "Guidelines for Teachers' Professional Ethics"▼
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A Liberal Studies teacher who distorts the facts and derogates the country's position is nailed down
In another case, the Education Bureau pointed out that some teachers continued to use a large number of biased textbooks to teach senior high school general education subjects. The relevant textbooks only expounded views from a single perspective, lacked evidence or empirical support, and even distorted the facts. The content included false comments about others, spreading hatred and Extremist consciousness, with a derogatory national position, can easily arouse resentment towards the country and the people.
The Education Bureau pointed out that the teachers used biased, negative, inconsistent with the facts and deviated from the purpose of the curriculum, and the number of them was used for a long time. Their teaching behavior had a negative and far-reaching impact on students' learning and the establishment of values. Cancellation of its registration under the Education Ordinance.
Cai Ruolian pointed out that there is a lot of room for teachers to choose materials, but they should not subtly discriminate against a certain culture
Regarding this case, Cai Ruolian, director of the Education Bureau, emphasized in a meeting with the media that teachers have more room to choose teaching materials, but if they have poor awareness, they will intentionally or unintentionally instill "a certain ethnic group is particularly dirty, a certain ethnic group ignores pollution, and a certain place is particularly horrific." Elements” will imperceptibly discriminate against a certain culture: “(In the case) the teacher distorts the facts and buryes no grounds. It’s not that the words are controversial and can’t be taught, but they only support their own prejudices and slam them to the students. If you are a student, it is very painful...it will take up class time and only talk about your own position, which will make your classmates very troubled."
He only supports his own biased position and loses it to the students.
If it is painful to be a student, Cai Ruolian, director of the Education Bureau
Cai also pointed out that the teaching materials involved are not just "one or two sheets of work paper", but "a large number and biased". She pointed out that teachers have the right to choose teaching materials, and it is not impossible to say "bad things", but they must correspond to the teaching objectives. Pursue truth, goodness, and beauty: "There is no reason to find fake and ugly things, and deliberately occupy class time. Why do you need to spend time doing these things?"
Any teacher who has ever been trained knows what it means to be biased Cai Ruolian: Eating poisonous food will make you sick
When asked how do teachers interpret "biased"?
Cai Ruolian pointed out: "Any trained teacher knows that you don't know whether the teaching materials are good or not, just like a chef who doesn't know whether the dishes are poisonous or not, and then cooks them for people to eat. Like teachers, students go to class every day like eating food, poisonous If you eat and drink, you will get sick and affect your mental development. You don’t know when you hurt it.”
Can the classroom dabble in the white paper movement?
Cai Ruolian: Do you want to explain what is happening in society?
When asked about the "white paper movement" that occurred earlier in the Mainland and whether the classroom could cover related issues, Cai Ruolian, the director of the Education Bureau, asked: "What is happening in society should I explain? What grade should I tell? What grade should the first class talk about?" What’s the point of blank paper?” She reiterated that it’s not that talking about it is not allowed, but it’s unprofessional to raise it in class without any preparation because of emotions and occupy students’ time.
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