British Columbia Teachers’ Federation (BCTF)
Guidelines and rules for BCTF social media and discussion forums
BC Teachers’s Council
Professional Standards for BC Educators (June 2019)
Ministry of Education – Teacher Regulation
Standards Questions and Case Studies
Ministry of Education – Teacher Regulation
Search the Discipline Database
- Use dropdown menu “Search Topic” to search within “Inappropriate use of social media” category
Academic Papers
- Forde, K. (2019). Regulation of teacher professionalism and social media: An analysis of disciplinary outcomes and teacher candidates’ self-regulation in British Columbia. [Master’s graduating paper, University of British Columbia]. cIRcle: UBC’s Digital Repository. https://doi.org/10.14288/1.0380582
- Fornwald, E. (2017, September 6). From student to teacher: Becoming a professional. Digital Tattoo website: https://digitaltattoo.ubc.ca/2017/09/06/case-studies-for-studentteachers/
- This was the article that really got me interested in this whole area. Emily correctly highlights the additional challenges teacher candidates have as they transition from private citizen to public servant
- Foxman, S. (2020, December). Communicating Online. Professionally Speaking (Ontario College of Teachers). https://www.oct.ca/publications/professionally_speaking/2020-12/December-2020-EN.pdf
- Kimmons, R., & Veletsianos, G. (2015). Teacher professionalization in the age of social networking sites. Learning, Media and Technology, 40(4), 480-501. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2014.933846
- Kimmons, R. (2016, March 11). Online professionalism for teachers [Video file]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz333YW9awg
- Marín, V. I., Carpenter, J. P., & Tur, G. (2021). Pre-service teachers’ perceptions of social media data privacy policies. British Journal of Educational Technology, 52(2), 519-535. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/bjet.13035
- School policies, public policies and regulations related to social media and data privacy in the education sphere are inadequate and in flux.
- MacKenzie, B. (2016). #Inappropriate: Ramifications of teachers’ off-duty social media postings. Education Law Journal, 26(1), 53-72. https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/c2b6c3_06c63035486045acb4839edcac3f562e.pdf
- Maxwell, B. (2018). When teachers’ off-duty creative pursuits conflict with role model expectations: A critical analysis of “Shewan”. Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 49(2), 161-178. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10780-018-9320-y
- Muls, J., Thomas, V., De Backer, F., Zhu, C., & Lombaerts, K. (2019). Identifying the nature of social media policies in high schools. Education and Information Technologies, 25, 281–305. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjet.13035
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- Ontario College of Teachers (OCT). (2017, September 27). Maintaining professionalism – Use of electronic communication and social media. https://www.oct.ca/resources/advisories/use-of-electronic-communication-and-social-media
- Papandrea, M.-R. (2012, June). Social media, public school teachers, and the First Amendment. North Carolina Law Review, 90(5), 1597-1641. https://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/lsfp/390/
- Quintanilla, B. U. (2016). The implications of social media use: Secondary teachers’ use of social media for personal, professional, and instructional purposes (Order No. 10307590). https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc862871/
- Warnick, B. R., Bitters, T. A., Falk, T. M., & Kim, S. H. (2016). Social media use and teacher ethics. Educational Policy, 30(5), 771-795. https://doi.org/10.1177/0895904814552895