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MTEL Professional Ethics & Legal Standards Flashcards

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  1. Under Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 71, Section 38R, educators are mandatory reporters of:

    Answer: Suspected child abuse or neglect

    Massachusetts law mandates that educators report reasonable suspicions of child abuse or neglect to the Department of Children and Families (DCF).

  2. FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act) primarily protects:

    Answer: The privacy of students' education records

    FERPA is a federal law that grants parents and eligible students the right to access and control the disclosure of education records.

  3. A teacher shares a student's IEP details with a parent volunteer without authorization. This action violates:

    Answer: Both FERPA and IDEA confidentiality requirements

    Sharing IEP information without proper authorization violates FERPA's student privacy protections and IDEA's confidentiality requirements for special education records.

  4. The Massachusetts Educator Code of Conduct requires teachers to maintain appropriate professional boundaries with students. Which of the following BEST exemplifies a boundary violation?

    Answer: Sending personal text messages to students through personal phone numbers

    Personal communications through non-school channels blur professional boundaries and violate the Massachusetts educator code of conduct's standards for appropriate relationships.

  5. Under IDEA 2004, a student with a disability is entitled to a Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) in the:

    Answer: Least restrictive environment (LRE)

    IDEA requires that students with disabilities be educated in the Least Restrictive Environment (LRE), meaning alongside non-disabled peers to the maximum extent appropriate.

  6. A Massachusetts teacher suspects a colleague is physically harming a student. The teacher's legal obligation is to:

    Answer: Make a direct report to DCF as a mandatory reporter

    Massachusetts mandatory reporting law requires individual educators to report suspected abuse directly to DCF; reporting to a principal does not fulfill the personal legal obligation.