Code of Conduct and Disciplinary Standards for Nepuga/FAPUGA Faculty

CODE OF CONDUCT FOR FACULTY CHAPTER I

Nepuga/FAPUGA faculty responsibilities fall into three main areas: Teaching, Research, and Intellectual Contributions / Institutional Contributions. Faculty are also responsible for keeping their personal records up to date.

Prohibitions for Faculty

All planning and management work related to Nepuga/FAPUGA faculty is based on a body of information about the faculty, including academic training, professional experience, intellectual contributions, institutional contributions, and more.

It is therefore the faculty member's responsibility to keep their registration data up to date, so that it is kept in a file created specifically to store the relevant information about their qualifications and development.

It is also the faculty member's responsibility to inform Nepuga/FAPUGA, regularly and in advance, about talks, advising, classes, research, and other commitments undertaken outside the Institution that relate to the activity carried out at this Institution and that could create a conflict of interest.

This information must be sent to [email protected] at least 30 days in advance, and the request will be reviewed together with the pedagogical directorate, and the faculty member will be told this Higher Education Institution's position on each particular case.

Nepuga/FAPUGA recommends that all faculty keep their Lattes CV (Brazil's academic CV platform) up to date; professors who teach in the specialization programs should update it regularly, with each new entry throughout the year; this is a recommendation of the MEC (Brazil's Ministry of Education) evaluators, the ministry responsible for regulating lato sensu postgraduate education in Brazil.

Teaching

The responsibility of Nepuga/FAPUGA faculty, more than to the activity of teaching, is to students' learning.

We consider that all admitted students are, in principle, able to perform well in their respective postgraduate programs and university extension courses.

Thus, as a whole, students are expected to reach high levels of achievement of the learning goals in the programs and their subjects.

Responsibility for this success is shared by students and faculty. Any failure by some students is likewise shared by students and faculty.

Nepuga/FAPUGA aims to give both students and faculty the best conditions for achieving the learning goals.

Nepuga/FAPUGA's methodological approach promotes a high degree of interaction among students, taking advantage of diversity in training, prior experience, areas of practice, and other aspects.

At the same time, the structure of Nepuga/FAPUGA's teaching programs includes a distribution of course load (hours) and days in the month that gives students the chance to reach the professor to ask questions about the material taught.

This support can be provided in person or through an interactive platform, according to the teaching program's guidelines.

Faculty responsibilities tied to the course load (hours) of subjects, courses, and commitments include the following activities and attitudes:

1. following the NEPUGA/FAPUGA methodology. The entire methodology was standardized by Dr. Ana Carolina Puga and faculty must follow it in accordance with the training and guidance given at hiring, as well as the use of handouts, their own slides or those provided by Nepuga/Fapuga, and the classroom layout. All classes are standardized, according to the lesson plan given to the faculty member during training, in which the distribution of hands-on and theoretical classes is determined in advance in each course's pedagogical plan.
2. providing educational services with care and efficiency, including observing the best practices in the market for hands-on classes, through the rational use of new technologies, as well as the rules on workplace safety, hygiene, and medicine, taking responsibility for any damage or accidents caused or suffered by professors, teaching assistants, students, and staff.
3. preparing courses in accordance with Nepuga/FAPUGA's educational proposal.
4. conducting classes in accordance with Nepuga's educational and methodological vision.
5. contributing to the improvement and innovation of student performance assessment, ensuring consistency among the assessment of learning, the subject's learning objectives, and the class dynamics (with the understanding that learning objectives will be suited to the level of demand/difficulty of each course — undergraduate, postgraduate, continuing education).
6. defining assessments and their grading criteria jointly and based on the fundamentals and learning evidence set out in the lesson plan, according to the pedagogical directorate. Specifically, the midterm and final exams must be the same and have the same grading criteria. Lesson plans may vary in the “activities” and “prior reading” dimensions, based on each professor's teaching style and way of approaching the content. On the other hand, “problems,” “fundamentals,” and “learning evidence,” because they are the purpose and core of the subject, must be the same whenever more than one professor teaches the same subject because of the number of classes. Any exceptions may occur only by prior determination of the Nepuga/FAPUGA postgraduate pedagogical coordination in special contexts, such as curriculum transition (classes in different semesters) or redesign of the subject based on a curriculum review.
7. grading midterm and final assessments, based on previously defined criteria applied consistently to all students, so that constructive feedback can be given to students and also to the faculty member, regarding results and opportunities for improvement, for any necessary adjustments to the subject. In this way, assessments fulfill their role as a tool for learning and development.
8. following the guidance of the academic and academic support coordinations regarding the grading system, distribution of class materials, and more.
9. answering the call of the pedagogical coordinators to take part and contribute in the regular meetings relevant to the teaching program in which they teach.
10. Following lesson plans in line with the STANDARD methodology, without making any changes before notifying the pedagogical coordination and waiting for the request to be approved. All suggestions for improving the lesson plan must be sent to the pedagogical coordination's email and the change awaited if APPROVED.
11. taking responsibility for the performance of the assistant professors (teaching assistants) of the subjects they teach, whether in the classroom or in other aspects of the teaching assistant's work.
12. meeting the deadlines, workflows, and procedures, according to the guidance of the Academic Support Coordinations.
13. considering student evaluations as a relevant source of information for developing their classroom performance.
14. seeking feedback from teaching program coordinators and colleagues in order to improve their classroom performance.
15. actively taking part in Nepuga/FAPUGA's faculty development programs or initiatives that aim to align teaching practices with the school's educational proposal.
16. Following the class guidelines developed on the NEPUGA/Ana Carolina Puga methodology, for each subject taught.
17. using the resources offered by Nepuga/FAPUGA, such as microphones, projectors, videos, such guidance in the course design, and workshops on topics related to methodological and pedagogical practices.
18. observing and upholding the Code of Conduct and Disciplinary Standards for Students of Nepuga/FAPUGA, guiding students on behavior that is inconsistent with the principles and values of Nepuga/FAPUGA, such as cheating, plagiarism, safety rules, and classroom behavior, for example.
19. observing and upholding the Internal Postgraduate Regulations of Nepuga/FAPUGA, in relationships among students, among professors, between students and professors, between students and staff, and between professors and staff.
20. clinical care, consulting, and advisory services OUT CLASS by the faculty member, offering any service to students with a current contract at this Higher Education Institution, are not permitted by NEPUGA/FAPUGA, nor is the sale of any teaching material to students and/or any product related to the field.
21. consulting, sales of clinical internships, sales of products, sales of books and/or handouts, sales of tickets, and any other type of selling by the FACULTY MEMBER at NEPUGA/FAPUGA are not authorized, and result in breach of contract and payment of a fine, under penalty of legal action.
22. all photographs taken at NEPUGA/FAPUGA may not be shared on the faculty member's personal profile for self-promotion, only to promote the class and always mentioning NEPUGA/FAPUGA in their posts.
23. all teaching material provided by NEPUGA/FAPUGA for teaching classes at the Institution may not be used at other schools and/or for other purposes, and is classified as a breach of contract and of the laws in force.

Notes:

1) Nepuga/FAPUGA respects and protects copyright, and for this reason the school's Copy Center does not make photocopies that may conflict with the guidelines of the ABDR – Brazilian Association of Reprographic Rights.

2) Nepuga/FAPUGA manages the use of teaching materials through the Moodle system and the Student Portal, among others, requested by faculty in order to control the number of licenses that must be paid to the institutions holding the rights to all materials made available to Nepuga/FAPUGA faculty.

3) Materials developed by faculty must be reviewed by the PEDAGOGICAL COORDINATION before being made available to students; other materials such as (class notes, assessments, grading rubrics, lesson plans) are treated as belonging to the institution and can therefore be shared with other faculty or even among students (who sometimes take the initiative to share notes with classmates, including through social media). In this regard, we guide faculty to include in all materials they prepare a footnote indicating no reproduction or distribution without the institution's prior authorization. The Student Handbook explains the procedure for obtaining permission from the professor and the Institution. In addition, special attention must be paid to properly citing authors and/or bibliography when the faculty member uses concepts, quotations, etc. that are not their own.

Teaching Assignments for Non-Exclusive Faculty

• Faculty go through a rigorous admission process in the selection of new professors and, once their mastery of the subject is proven, are assigned to NEPUGA/FAPUGA faculty training, where they are trained in the Ana Carolina Puga Methodology, developed for the undergraduate, postgraduate, and extension courses offered.
• For each subject there is a methodology that faculty must follow across the entire country; it is a standard in Nepuga/FAPUGA teaching. The assignment decision is made by Nepuga/FAPUGA's pedagogical/academic coordination for teaching programs, during the academic year according to the need and availability of classes.
• The pedagogical/academic coordination will be in touch with outsourced/contract faculty by email to assign classes for the semester.
• A faculty member's assignment is determined based on the program's requirements regarding the distribution of participating professors per program and an assessment of each faculty member's academic and professional qualifications.
• Pedagogical/academic evaluation is based on analysis of the faculty member's classroom performance, as well as compliance with the program and the methodology used, through post-class forms completed by students and by each unit's local secretary.
• A professor's teaching assignment is under a temporary contract for that weekend.
• A new contract may or may not be offered for the same programs and/or new programs, with prior notice and under the terms of the service agreement established with Nepuga/FAPUGA, according to the Institution's needs.

Research and Other Intellectual Contributions

Faculty with Research Responsibilities

Research activities are part of this Higher Education Institution's effort to spread knowledge, a fundamental element of its mission.

• All Nepuga/FAPUGA faculty/staff are therefore encouraged to engage in research and to meet the institutional expectation that faculty have a high level of academic qualification, regardless of the type of relationship, profile, or career level the professor holds.

The intellectual contributions generated by faculty will generally meet the following requirements:

1) They exist in written form and are publicly disseminated, although some contributions may take the form of public presentations or talks, or have restricted access;

2) They were subject to some type of evaluation, by academic or professional peers or by an editor, before publication. Intellectual contributions can be of three types by nature:

• Basic Academic Research – contributions that add knowledge to the theoretical base or generate empirical evidence that supports or rejects theories. These contributions are normally published in scientific journals and aimed at an academic audience.
• Contribution to Practice – contributions that influence professional practice in a given field of knowledge. They are normally published in professional journals and aimed at a managerial audience or those who develop public policy.
• Teaching and Learning Research – contributions that influence the school's teaching-learning activities. Preparing new materials used in subjects, creating teaching support materials, and research carried out in the pedagogical field are considered pedagogical and epistemological dimensions. The institutional effort to develop case studies that made up the Nepuga/FAPUGA collection stands out here.

In addition, contributions can be classified into two categories:

• Peer-reviewed, defined as an independent evaluation/review process before publication. It is generally carried out by a committee/editorial board considered expert in the field. Ideally it should be independent, provide critical but constructive feedback, demonstrate mastery of the field, and take place transparently (even if the reviewers are anonymous).
• Not peer-reviewed, when the process meant to ensure the quality of the contribution does not take place as described in the item above, and may involve an invitation to publish, evaluation of only an abstract instead of a full article, among other forms.

Research results are understood to mean the publication of academic articles in indexed journals (national and international), books, and book chapters in the institution's main areas of interest, namely Health Sciences, Biomedicine, Aesthetics, Business Administration, Economics, Statistics, Sociology, Psychology, Political Science, Law, International Relations, or also in the area of Pedagogy or Teaching and Learning Processes.

Excluding extraordinary situations, normally only publications in which the Nepuga/FAPUGA name is explicitly mentioned will be taken into account.

Other faculty, including full-time and exclusive administrative faculty and non-exclusive faculty, are encouraged to maintain their academic qualifications, although this is not mandatory, particularly in the case of those who are professionally qualified.

However, it should be kept in mind that the best teaching-learning conditions are provided when professors are up to date academically and professionally.

Thus, in order to encourage academic output by professors who have no specific research responsibility, the school established a policy of granting research funds aimed at this group of faculty.

This policy, detailed in the GENERAL BYLAWS: INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN – PDI – CAREER PLAN, WORK REGIME, AND FACULTY QUALIFICATION/TRAINING PLAN, requires the faculty member to hold a doctorate and prepare a work plan to obtain or maintain their academic qualifications.

Faculty without Research Responsibilities

Other faculty, including full-time and exclusive administrative faculty and non-exclusive faculty, are encouraged to maintain their academic qualifications, although this is not mandatory, particularly in the case of those who are professionally qualified.

However, it should be kept in mind that the best teaching-learning conditions are provided when professors are up to date academically and professionally.

Thus, in order to encourage academic output by professors who have no specific research responsibility, the school established a policy of granting research funds aimed at this group of faculty.

This policy, detailed in the GENERAL BYLAWS: INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN – PDI – CAREER PLAN, WORK REGIME, AND FACULTY QUALIFICATION/TRAINING PLAN, requires the faculty member to hold a doctorate and prepare a work plan to obtain or maintain their academic qualifications.

Institutional Contributions

Nepuga/FAPUGA values faculty involvement in activities beyond those related to teaching and research, staying attentive to continuous evolution and innovation in a way consistent with fulfilling the mission, contributing to the School's soundness and good reputation, and to creating a harmonious and efficient environment among the various institutional initiatives.

A professor's interest in dedicating themselves to Nepuga/FAPUGA is a fundamental aspect to be addressed and evaluated in the admission processes for new faculty.

Likewise, this aspect will be part of the performance evaluation of all Nepuga/FAPUGA faculty. Institutional contributions vary in nature and format. As examples, contributions may be of the following nature:

• leadership roles;
• coordination of teaching programs or study and/or research centers;
• participation in committees;
• advising or running internal projects;
• participation in activities promoted by Nepuga/FAPUGA;
• organizing academic events;
• advising papers and theses;
• participation in events by invitation, among others.

The annual institutional contribution responsibility of Nepuga/FAPUGA faculty depends on the terms of the teaching services agreement with individuals and/or legal entities.

GENERAL OBLIGATIONS OF PROFESSORS IN THE CLASSROOM

1st. The professor must arrive 30 minutes early and check all equipment and teaching resources before using them, including whether all requested materials are available, so that local secretaries and teaching assistants are not inconvenienced by going up and down with materials and leaving the reception/office alone:

1. Regarding the handling of classroom equipment, from projectors, cables, sound system, computers, air conditioning, lights, to aesthetic equipment, descarpack, etc.; the faculty member is responsible for taking care of equipment, handling it, plugging it into the correct voltage, using the biohazard collector, turning the air conditioning and lights on and off, and organizing equipment and materials in the classroom….
2. The use of consumable materials is the faculty member's responsibility;
3. Regarding the use of PPE; Faculty must use PPE, and it is even more essential that its use be enforced among students.

2nd. Students must NOT arrive late to class. DO NOT allow a late student to enter the classroom. If the late arrival happens for a valid reason, the student will be accompanied by someone from the Coordination.

3rd. Once in the classroom, do not allow late students to enter, except when expressly authorized.

4th. At break times and at the end of a period, the professor must stay in the classroom until the last student leaves. Close the door and windows, turn off the lights, and shut down equipment, computers, projectors, and air conditioners. Note: You may ask for help from a teaching assistant or the local secretary.

5th. The professor must be the last to leave. Erase the board, collect the markers, and lock the door. Note: You may ask for help from a teaching assistant or the local secretary.

6th. Students may not stay in the classroom without the professor present.

7th. Many things take students' attention away and disrupt your classes and cause problems in the classroom itself. For your convenience, only allow your students to use CELL PHONES, SMARTPHONES, TABLETS, LAPTOPS, and similar devices for teaching activities, and DO NOT allow eating in the classroom. NOTE: It is the FACULTY MEMBER's prerogative to prohibit in their classroom filming, photos, or any other kind of sharing of procedures in hands-on classes.

8th. Caps and sunglasses are prohibited in the classroom.

9th. Lab coat: Faculty may wear a WHITE lab coat with no logo, only the faculty member's name, and if there is a logo, the only one allowed is NEPUGA/FAPUGA's. All classes of health professionals have their uniform: doctors, dentists, workers, waiters, and professors. The lab coat is extremely important for health professionals. It is a sign of an organized Higher Education Institution, a sign of a professional who takes care in their work. Always wear the WHITE lab coat in front of students.

10th. The professor must not make any announcement to students, except at the request or with the knowledge of the coordination, about: – approval criteria; – schedule changes; – other professors; – reviews; – exam dates and types; – extracurricular activities.

11th. Under no circumstances may the professor abandon the class in the middle of a lesson, claiming student misbehavior.

12th. Tell students to use the restroom during break time, except in cases of physiological problems. The same applies to drinking water.

13th. The professor must fill their water bottle before entering the classroom.

14th. Students should preferably leave the classroom during the break between classes.

15th. Nothing is more unpleasant than starting your work and realizing that a student did not bring their full materials and cannot take part in the class. Talk to them the first time. If it happens again, report the action taken to the Coordination.

16th. A student who is not properly dressed for class may not attend it.

CLASSROOM DISCIPLINE

1st. Respect your students. Do not become overly familiar with them. DO NOT use nicknames, mockery, or jokes, which will end up causing you disciplinary problems. Young people do not always know how to tell the serious from the joking. That is often where the causes of misbehavior lie. Be careful with exposure on social media.

2nd. Under no condition USE GRADES OR ABSENCES as a form of punishment.

3rd. Under no circumstances THREATEN THE CLASS with hard exam questions, strict grading, etc. All of this reveals only the professor's LACK OF SKILL in running the class and keeping discipline.

4th. If you must punish a student, be “creative” in your decision. DO NOT use outdated methods, such as writing lines a thousand times and the like; this will do nothing to increase the student's knowledge and will end up becoming a joke to them.

5th. Try to resolve DISCIPLINE CASES IN CLASS ITSELF, following this approach:

a) VERBAL WARNING, seeking to make everyone aware of the obligation of each one to PAY MAXIMUM ATTENTION;

b) Any student who, after the verbal warning, DISRUPTS the class AGAIN must be ASKED TO LEAVE THE CLASS and the professor must, without fail, at the end of class RECORD THE INCIDENT IN THE CLASS MINUTES and be consistent with the student's participation and performance grade, as well as check their attendance on the attendance lists; Note: You may ask for help from a teaching assistant or the local secretary.

c) IF THE MISBEHAVIOR PERSISTS, the faculty member may halt the class until the disruptive student leaves, asking for the local secretary to be present and sending the student immediately to the office, which will take the appropriate action for the case. It is also important to stress that, depending on the seriousness of the offense committed by the student, SOLELY AT THE COORDINATION'S DISCRETION, the student may even be expelled from the student body. Note: We ask for the professors' cooperation regarding discipline, not only in the classroom but in ANY AREA OF THE HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTION.

6th. Do NOT allow, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, students to stay in the hallways between classes (except during break).

7th. TRASH. This is an old and well-known problem. It is very important that the professor act as a “monitor” of cleanliness and of the biosafety rules in their classroom; after all, they are an educator. Care for cleanliness is also something learned at the Higher Education Institution.

KEEPING TO THE SCHEDULE

1st. The professor must arrive at least 30 (thirty) minutes before their class starts, in order to catch up on school matters and announcements. Note: Always keep an eye on the announcements on the bulletin boards in the faculty lounge and on messages left by the Coordination. After one week on the board, the content of an announcement will be considered known to all professors.

2nd. For the 1st class of the day, the professor must always go to the classroom right away, on time.

3rd. Under no circumstances dismiss the class BEFORE THE END OF CLASS TIME. This behavior creates a disturbance, discredits the Educational Institution, and significantly harms another professor who is teaching a different class.

4th. The content taught must have a beginning, middle, and end, in order to use all class time on content relevant to the subject.

5th. The attendance sheet must be passed around at the times set by the COORDINATION.

6th No professor has the authority to dismiss the class before the end of class time; for any unforeseen event, notify the institution's COORDINATION.

7th Once all the content has been covered in class, all hands-on practice has been done, and if students have no questions, they may be dismissed at a minimum time corresponding to at least 75% (seventy-five percent) of the subject's total course load (hours). It is the FACULTY MEMBER's responsibility to stay in the classroom until the last student leaves.

GENERAL GUIDANCE ON STUDY METHODS

1st. Make clear to students that study habits are only built by studying every day after the module, and that only when, after class, they dedicate themselves to reading and studying everything that was taught will they truly get the most out of that session, that class, and gain mastery of the subject.

2nd. Guide students so that they will:

a) In class: Pay attention in class, asking for clarification whenever necessary;

b) Pay attention to their classmates' questions and listen to the professor's answers, because that way many doubts can be cleared up;

c) Take notes in class and copy the outline given by the professor;

d) Do the in-class exercises, asking the professor for help whenever needed;

e) If in doubt, clear it up with the professors themselves in the same class or, if appropriate, later when the assignment is corrected;

f) Correct the exercises, both in-class and homework, so that they are all right when reviewing them for the exam;