LMS is the Key to Teaching Malpractice
The development of a society greatly depends on the foundation of the citizens during their formative years in school; hence, educators play a very vital role. That is why, if these educators fail in their portrayal, the future of the society will predictably collapse.
The quality of education in the United States is swarmed with numerous unresolved issues such as the incompetence and malpractice of educators. For years now, the reputation of public school educators or teachers are stained because of erupting infamous incidents about their attitude and management in the classroom.
In 1999, investigative studies in some cities in the United States revealed the "other" face of teachers of public schools. There existed teaching malpractice by the way they ran and managed the supposed standard procedures such as test administering. It was found out that students were allowed to bring home their tests as home-works; students could take tests even beyond the allotted time; students who were considered poor in academics were discouraged from taking tests; students were given grades higher than their actual performance; and lastly, the teachers were not reprimanded for such misconduct and policy violations.
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.