Team Professional Ethics Code Paper
Title: Team Professional Ethics Code Paper
Area of Mastery: Analytical and Integrative Thinking
Description:
This Team Professional Ethics Code Paper was completed as part of my coursework for ETT 553.
This artifact is a paper on a case study that deals with professional or ethical practice issues. In particular, our group was asked to examine a scenario in which a principal must decide how to respond to a situation with which he has been confronted. One of his counselors may have crossed a line in attempting to diagnose a student she believed had a drug problem. Through her efforts, the counselor discovers the student is pregnant. Both the student and her parents feel the counselors repeated efforts to diagnose the student amount to harassment. My group and I were asked to develop a solution for the case, including information about the case, the ethics issues indicated, and the conclusion that the team developed.
In addition to a solution, we developed questions for further discussion among our classmates. Our questions included:
This case study is an example of my ability to analyze a theoretical issue of ethical practice, assess the issues involved, and propose appropriate solutions. Like most everything in life, the ethical situations we are faced with as professional educators are never clear cut. There is almost gray area in which we must navigate to come to the best possible solution. I believe that this artifact is a clear example of my ability to face such challenges, process them rationally, and then come to a logical, best possible solution. As a person who wishes to deal with technology, a field that increasingly involves issues of privacy and moral dilemmas, I think its is an absolute necessity. I am able to handle these situations to make sure my students are spending as much of their time learning as possible. It is in that way that I feel this artifact really demonstrates how my students will be positively affected. I will be able to make the types of difficult, ethical choices that are necessary to be in a leadership position. As I said, this then allows me to spend more time focused on what happens in the classroom in my role as an educator.
Area of Mastery: Analytical and Integrative Thinking
Description:
This Team Professional Ethics Code Paper was completed as part of my coursework for ETT 553.
This artifact is a paper on a case study that deals with professional or ethical practice issues. In particular, our group was asked to examine a scenario in which a principal must decide how to respond to a situation with which he has been confronted. One of his counselors may have crossed a line in attempting to diagnose a student she believed had a drug problem. Through her efforts, the counselor discovers the student is pregnant. Both the student and her parents feel the counselors repeated efforts to diagnose the student amount to harassment. My group and I were asked to develop a solution for the case, including information about the case, the ethics issues indicated, and the conclusion that the team developed.
In addition to a solution, we developed questions for further discussion among our classmates. Our questions included:
- Should Mrs. Teahorn have to apologize for looking out for her students’ well being?
- Should Natasa have been challenged on why she didn’t speak up sooner especially when her well being is what was being looked after?
- Could the situation have been avoided if sex education was part of the curriculum?
- Was the parents concern more for their reputation as a family then their daughter?
- Was it ethical for Mrs. Teahorn to search Natasa’s bag for what she thought were drugs?
This case study is an example of my ability to analyze a theoretical issue of ethical practice, assess the issues involved, and propose appropriate solutions. Like most everything in life, the ethical situations we are faced with as professional educators are never clear cut. There is almost gray area in which we must navigate to come to the best possible solution. I believe that this artifact is a clear example of my ability to face such challenges, process them rationally, and then come to a logical, best possible solution. As a person who wishes to deal with technology, a field that increasingly involves issues of privacy and moral dilemmas, I think its is an absolute necessity. I am able to handle these situations to make sure my students are spending as much of their time learning as possible. It is in that way that I feel this artifact really demonstrates how my students will be positively affected. I will be able to make the types of difficult, ethical choices that are necessary to be in a leadership position. As I said, this then allows me to spend more time focused on what happens in the classroom in my role as an educator.
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