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When creating a social media policy for the individual classroom, the teacher needs to be careful to make sure all policies the enact follows school or district policy. In today's society when individuals are fired or publicly shamed because of their social media presence, teacher need to set the bar higher, and be the example of how to use social media in the classroom. The policy list created below is a combination of my current district's policy and other policies and ideas located on the Internet. My district does not have a specific policy referencing social media but has policies that are close in nature.
1. Get all policies you want to establish in your classroom approved by administration. This will save you numerous headaches and surprises. Administrator like to be kept in the know, the easiest was to to do this is communicate. If a parent calls to complain, then the Administrator can support you because they approved your policies.
2. Develop a professional identity online that is separate from your personal identity. As a teacher I constantly tell me students becareful what you tweet, like, retweet, etc.... because this shows people what content you are looking at online. It will shape an online persona of you that could come back to haunt you. As a teacher, if you are interacting with students or with educational institution you need to keep this separate because you do not need students to see your personal information.
3. Maintain professional boundaries with students. As a teacher you need to only communicate with students on an educational purpose only. It is important that the boundary is maintain to ensure communication is appropriate.
4. Set personal accounts to private. As a way to limit what is seen by the general public, the easiest way to keep standard of professional boundaries is to limit access to social media. Whether it is keeping Twitter private or creating a private Facebook for your class, it is important privacy is respected.
5. Think twice then post. Once the send button is hit it cannot be taken back. Think before you post, read the post before you post, and if you still feel you need to send the post then post it.
6.Institute best practices for using Social Media in your classroom. Explain to parents what they educational purpose behind using social media and how does it improve the educational experience in your classroom.
7. Opt-Out. Allow parents to sign an opt out form for their son or daughter in your class. This policy can very easily lead to further discussion on the importance of using social media in your class.
8. Take responsibility for your posts. As with all actions, we need to be responsible for our posts we put online. Whether you intend it or not, your posts reflect upon you, your family, and your work place.
9. Respect Copyright laws, just as with writing a paper, you need to respect the original content. Give credit where credit is due.
10 Be respectful. In this age, we need to be smart about what we post, many time posts can be taken out of context. We need to think be for we post, do you not post demeaning, derogatory comments or pictures. Avoid harassing individuals.
Sources
www.nbasd.org-board policies
https://www.jpsk12.org/cms/lib/MI01908028/Centricity/Domain/29/JPS%202018-%202019%20Social%20Media%20Policy%20staff%20final.pdf
1. Get all policies you want to establish in your classroom approved by administration. This will save you numerous headaches and surprises. Administrator like to be kept in the know, the easiest was to to do this is communicate. If a parent calls to complain, then the Administrator can support you because they approved your policies.
2. Develop a professional identity online that is separate from your personal identity. As a teacher I constantly tell me students becareful what you tweet, like, retweet, etc.... because this shows people what content you are looking at online. It will shape an online persona of you that could come back to haunt you. As a teacher, if you are interacting with students or with educational institution you need to keep this separate because you do not need students to see your personal information.
3. Maintain professional boundaries with students. As a teacher you need to only communicate with students on an educational purpose only. It is important that the boundary is maintain to ensure communication is appropriate.
4. Set personal accounts to private. As a way to limit what is seen by the general public, the easiest way to keep standard of professional boundaries is to limit access to social media. Whether it is keeping Twitter private or creating a private Facebook for your class, it is important privacy is respected.
5. Think twice then post. Once the send button is hit it cannot be taken back. Think before you post, read the post before you post, and if you still feel you need to send the post then post it.
6.Institute best practices for using Social Media in your classroom. Explain to parents what they educational purpose behind using social media and how does it improve the educational experience in your classroom.
7. Opt-Out. Allow parents to sign an opt out form for their son or daughter in your class. This policy can very easily lead to further discussion on the importance of using social media in your class.
8. Take responsibility for your posts. As with all actions, we need to be responsible for our posts we put online. Whether you intend it or not, your posts reflect upon you, your family, and your work place.
9. Respect Copyright laws, just as with writing a paper, you need to respect the original content. Give credit where credit is due.
10 Be respectful. In this age, we need to be smart about what we post, many time posts can be taken out of context. We need to think be for we post, do you not post demeaning, derogatory comments or pictures. Avoid harassing individuals.
Sources
www.nbasd.org-board policies
https://www.jpsk12.org/cms/lib/MI01908028/Centricity/Domain/29/JPS%202018-%202019%20Social%20Media%20Policy%20staff%20final.pdf
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