Ethics

Most of your ethical requirements will be written into your insititution's policies an practices. This page only contains a few specific points regarding teaching.

It is easy to give too much attention to students whom you like (such as the friendly, talkative ones, or the naturally attractive ones). It is similarly easy to give inadequate attention to quiet, shy, rude, or unattractive students. It is also a natural bias that older men will feel protective toward younger women. A mark of your professionalism is your ability to treat all students equitably, giving help where it is most needed.

You shouldn't be alone in a closed room with a person of the opposite gender.

Ethics for class interactions

Keep your discussion on what it is that students are supposed to be learning. If you digress too far for too long, you reduse student's popportunity to learn.
1. It is unethical to exclude some students and give others unfairly large amounts of speaking time; all your students are entitled to your attention.
2. Give students the right to their own opinions. Don’t try to force them to agree with you. In many matters of opinion, students should generally be able to arrive at their own conclusions, and you should not try to indoctrinate or manipulate students into accepting your personal view. This is easy to do, but it is unfair to create an extremist stereotype of a view that you dislike, and then present your own view as the only balanced view.
3. As a general guideline, you should intervene if the student pushes an opinion that will risk his/her ability to pass the unit or that contravenes other ethical guidelines (e.g. offensive or discriminatory).