Transcript Ethics in the Elementary Classroom Deborah Hamm Department of Teacher Education

Ethics in the Elementary
Classroom
Deborah Hamm
Department of Teacher Education
California State University, Long Beach
Todays learning outcome
•Identify, observe, and problem-solve about the
particular ethical issues you (may) see at your
student teaching site.
•Identify how they can be agents of change.
•Related SLOs: Students will identify theory and
application of multicultural education, social justice,
anti-bias and anti-racist education, and an
awareness of educator-activist models; and,
students will identify and reflect upon their
attitudes, beliefs, & approaches to diversity issues.
Whole Class
• View photos of Civil Rights pictures, respond
to each one, discuss our responses.
• Did those photos make the reading “Whites
only” more real for students? Is this in the
past- who cares now? What does this have to
do with being a teacher?
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Today
Discuss in your group
• Is Civil Rights just a thing of the past?
– Donald Sterling
– NBA
– Arizona Immigration Laws
– Other current events?
• What connections can we make to theories?
Readings? DVDs? YouTube presentations we
have watched?
Historical Heroes
• Choose an historical hero.
• Write them on the board. Identify why.
• Discuss the “unknowns” why are they
unknown?
• Did they each face challenges/obstacles/
adverse reactions from others?
Teacher as Activist
• Can a teacher make a difference?
• View the Hagopian presentation.
• Read the Activist article.
Pyramid of Hate
• Where on the Pyramid can you as a teacher
respond?
• What is the Teacher’s Ethical role?
Guidelines
• Identify an ethical issue/challenge you have
had during student teaching (or perhaps as a
student or SERVE student).
• Even if you did not respond appropriately at
that time given your powerlessness, how do
you pledge to respond better in the future, or
what are you going to work on?
Ethics in the Elementary
Classroom
•Jessica Zacher Pandya
•Teacher Education & Liberal Studies
•CSULB College of Education
•EDEL 300
Today’s learning outcome
•Learn more about ethics: identify, observe, and
problem-solve about the particular ethical issues
you (may) see at your SERVE site
•Related SLOs: Students will identify theory and
application of multicultural education, social
justice, anti-bias and anti-racist education, and
an awareness of educator-activist models; and,
students will identify and reflect upon their
attitudes, beliefs, & approaches to diversity
issues.
Start with a whole-class
brainstorm
•what have we learned about
inequality in
the elementary classroom so far, in terms
of class, ethnicity, gender, and language
learning?
Sample from actual class—one group’s
discussion
Ethical treatment in our readings:
Education Specialist Teachers
•Some Principles for Education Specialists (and all teachers!) from the
Council on Exceptional Children:
•Maintain challenging expectations for individuals with exceptionalities to
develop the highest possible learning outcomes and quality of life potential
in ways that respect their dignity, culture, language, and background.
•Promote meaningful and inclusive participation of individuals with
exceptionalities in their schools and communities.
Ethical treatment in our readings:
Undocumented students
•Plyler vs. Doe, 1982: Teachers and
Administrators may not engage in:
• Chilling: Creating fear amongst potentially
undocumented students (e.g.: by asking them to
fill out forms completely, including SSN, even
when forms are not required to be complete)
• Exposure: Exposing undocumented students,
asking for documentation, or asking about
documented status
• Disparity: Treating potentially undocumented
students differently
At your table
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2.
Discuss the ethical issues or unequal
treatment of students you have seen at your
SERVE site related to those inequality issues.
Each student should have already noted at
least one issue in their observation/SERVE
notes. If you did NOT write about them,
please add to your #3 observation by hand so
I can read about them when you turn the
observation in today
Whole group questions
1.
2.
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4.
What issues did you see?
What are teachers’ ethical obligations?
Look at today’s readings [Morse &
Ludovina, CEE]
What are teachers’ legal obligations?
Let’s make some ethical treatment
guidelines to take with us in our (your and
my own) future classrooms:
Ethical treatment guidelines
(assessment)
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Take 15 minutes at your table to come up with your
own—or your group’s—ethical treatment
guidelines for your own teaching in your future
classroom. I’ll ask you to turn them in (ungraded)
and will return them to you next week
You may also wish to draw on your own past
educational experiences to create your guidelines
We will share these aloud in class today and discuss
our reasons for including each guideline