It is very vital that the students’ development are moulded and guided well by the appropriate persons such as the teachers. But if such persons fall short in their responsibility, then the future is unclear for these students.
The competency of educators in public schools in the United States is becoming dodgy to the parents and students nowadays. This has become one of the reasons why the quality of education in the country is deteriorating.
Professional misconduct of teachers in the past has shaken the public education because of the results of investigative research conducted in some cities in the country. Teachers were found out to have deviated from the norm of academic excellence as students were allowed to take their tests home; go beyond the prescribed test duration; students were given higher scores than actual performance-while no sanction was given to such malpractice.
Regardless of the degree of prevalence of teaching misconduct, this issue on professional malpractice should be resolved to preserve the decaying of the quality of education in public schools. School administrators should adopt a learning management system, or LMS. The LMS is software that will take care of the administrative and academic undertakings of the school such as record-keeping, performance management, materials sharing, and many more. Since an LMS is web-based, the curriculum is standardized, hence, ensuring that all information, manuals, modules, and test questionnaires are official and approved by the governing administrators. The centralization of information sharing through the internet will promote virtual learning to students and virtual management for educators. In essence, there exists transparency in terms of regulations and curriculum compliance among teachers, students, and the school administrators. The LMS also provides a performance management feature that will monitor the conduct and behaviour not only of students, but also of teachers. This will guarantee the parents that the teachers are abiding by the school’s standard procedures. Lastly, the LMS is capable of quantifying the performance of the students based on inputs, thus assuring the parents of the actual grades of students, without biases or anything else.
A learning management system can cure the aggravating issue on teaching misconduct and malpractice, hence it should be adopted by public schools in the country.
