- Identify the personal and professional requirements for employment of prospective teachers.
- Describe teachers’ employment rights as derived from the employment contract and tenure status.
- Outline the legal requirements for dismissing a teacher.
- Provide an overview of teachers’ rights, inside and outside the classroom.
- Discuss the teacher’s responsibility in reporting child abuse and using copyrighted materials.
- Define the elements of negligence.
- Compare equal opportunity and affirmative action.
- Contrast the procedural requirements for suspension, expulsion, and corporal punishment.
- Trace the development of student rights in the area of search and seizure.
- Explain the restraints that may be placed on student expression and personal appearance.
- Distinguish between quid pro quo and hostile environment harassment as the concepts apply to employees and students.
- Discuss how the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act has expanded parental and student rights.
