It is in our personal and professional opinion that Miss Hawkins has acted inappropriately. Even as Pre Service Teachers (PST) with an evolving pedagogical stance on education revolving around building positive relationships with students, we really do believe you must draw a line with both your personal and professional life. Miss Hawkins has seemed to overstep the ‘line’ in this case.
There is no doubting social media has a heavy presence in society today, so it is important that educators identify both the correct and incorrect ways to use it. It can be a tricky situation to judge with certain aspects of Australian educational regulations being somewhat subjective and can be interpreted differently from one individual to another.
It is our belief that if Miss Hawkins wished to use Facebook, or any social media, for class purposes she should treat her profiles as a professional platform; strictly regulating the information that she chooses to share. By failing to do so Miss Hawkins has put the school’s reputation at risk as well as her own reputation amongst parents, students and colleagues.
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