EDUC1231 - Week Two - ATA Code of Conduct

The focus of this week's discussion was on the Alberta Teacher Association's Code of Conduct.

In preparation for the class discussion, the students read the code of conduct and then generated a series of questions in the Blackboard Discussion Board that we  then transferred to a Google Doc.

We then had the ATA Representative for our MRU B.Ed. program, Kurt Moench, visit our class in order to provide a brief introduction to the ATA and then engage the students in a discussion about their questions related to the Code of Conduct.

After the class, the students were required to have a conversation with their K to 12 mentor teacher about the Alberta Teacher’sAssociation (ATA) for their journal assignments with regards to the following questions:

• ·       How does the ATA support your mentor teachers’ professional practice?
• ·       What role do you think the ATA will play in your future career?
• ·       Is there an ATA Specialist Council that you would like to join?