The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a legal workshop which could be used to provide information relative to professional rights and responsibilities to elementary and secondary school teachers. To accomplish this purpose, a review of literature was done of legal cases involving classroom teachers, federal and state statutes, Constitutional rights of teachers, administrative rulings, and workshop and instructional design. Workshop content was drawn from six legal knowledge areas: Federal Statutes and Constitutional amendments; freedoms in and outside of the classroom, pursuant to classroom teachers; major Supreme Court decisions; tort liability; rights and responsibilities of Florida teachers; and Florida teacher certification. The 8-10 hour workshop was presented to 66 volunteer inservice educators from two rural north Florida districts. Materials used included the pretest instrument consisting of a personal data questionnaire, 69-item legal knowledge segment, and a component to determine perceptions of legal education and its effect. The posttest instrument included the same 69-item legal knowledge segment and perceptions of legal education; an additional category was included to see how participants viewed the workshop treatment, and a write-in section elicited comments from the workshop participants. Statistically significant gains were made in each of the six selected categories of school law. The greatest gains were found in Category II, teachers' rights and responsibilities inside and outside of the classroom. Of the workshop participants, 97% agreed that the workshop increased their awareness of the rights and responsibilities of teachers, both within and outside of the classroom. Responses to the evaluative instruments supported the use of the workshop format and materials tested as effective means to provide legal knowledge to inservice teachers. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 43-03, Section: A, page: 0765. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1982.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_74786 |
| Contributors | KERLEY, AVERY JAMES., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 266 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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