Classrooms, courtrooms, & common sense
By: Instructivision, Inc. in collaboration with the National Association of Secondary School Principals and the National School Public Relations Association ; segment producers, Kevin Comras, Kevin M. Nelson, Mark Abney
Contributors: Gass, J. Ric; Instructivision, Inc; National Association of Secondary School Principals (U.S.); National School Public Relations Association
Series: CED 614 (NU course); PED 680 (NU course)
Publisher: Inservice Video Network
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Livingston, N.J
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 29
Subjects: Teachers; Malpractice
Other titles: Inservice Video Network.
Description: An attorney at law who has spent time as a classroom teacher and who has 17 years experience trying cases and knows how teachers are received in the courtroom gives common sense guidelines to keep the teacher in the classroom and out of the court. Discusses procedures in filing a suit, jurisdictions where suits are heard, and the actions for which a teacher may be sued. Presents guidelines to protect the teacher from suits resulting from searches and seizures of places or individuals; libel, slander, and defamation; false imprisonment; and assault and battery.
Notes: #873 SP.

Presenter, J. Ric Gass.

VHS.