This document discusses professional ethics topics for staff development including plagiarism, copyright, privacy rights, challenges with materials, and internet ethics. It defines plagiarism as taking others' work and passing it off as one's own. It provides tips for teaching students to avoid plagiarism such as well-defined assignments, teaching note taking and paraphrasing skills, and modeling paraphrasing. The document also notes that one should not post photos or student work without permission and requests for student information must be in writing.

1. Professional Ethics
Staff Development

2. Professional Ethics
• Plagiarism
• Copyright
• Right to Privacy
• Materials Challenges
• Internet Ethics

3. Plagarism
…is the practice of taking someone else's work
or ideas and passing them off as one's own.

4. How to Teach Students to
Avoid Plagiarism
• Well defined assignments.
• Teach students to use a writing process that includes:
note taking skills, how to paraphrase, draft and revise.
• Model several times the steps to paraphrase. This is a
skill and teachers and students alike must practice.
• Discuss the consequences of plagiarism.

5. Copyright©
have the right to freely use someone else’s pictures, words, a

6. Use Public Domain Sites
Use Google Advanced Search Option

7. Right to Privacy
• Do not post pictures or
students work without
permission!
• Request for information about
a student must be in writing.

8. Internet Ethics

9. Materials Challenges

10. Sources
Bishop, K. (2007). The collection program in schools: concepts and practices. Westport, CT: Libraries
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Woolls, B. (2004). The school library media manager (4th ed.). Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited.
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http://www.davis.k12.ut.us/cms/lib07/UT01001306/Centricity/Domain/12/Forms/EleStudentAU
A.pdf
http://wpacouncil.org/positions/WPAplagiarism.pdf