Moral Reasoning and Themes of Care
Part 1:
1. How will you structure your classroom management plan to encourage higher levels of moral reasoning?
In my class I will allow students to grade their own work and the work of their peers to encourage them to foster their own integrity. At the beginning of the semester I would have a discussion with my students about their integrity and how it's up to them to maintain their integrity and how integrity makes them a good person. I would also want my students to start thinking about how much their integrity is worth to them and make them think twice about whether their integrity is worth an extra point on an assignment. I would talk to them about maintaining a level of maturity and the consequences of cheating both in my class and at the school and in the real world. I would really make the point that I am trusting them and that if they lose that trust it will be difficult for them to earn that trust again and how losing my trust would affect our classroom dynamic.
2. How will you engage students in discussions of moral reasoning with regard to your content? Provide at least one example and explain how you will guide the discussion to advance their moral reasoning.
There are many ways to engage students in moral reasoning in the health curriculum. I want to establish my classroom as a safe space so that my students feel confident and comfortable to share their ideas and opinions. Most likely, our first discussion on moral reasoning will be in the first unit in regards to healthy and unhealthy relationships. We will do an activity in class where I present the students with dilemmas in relationships and then engage the students in a discussion about what is problematic about the relationship and what could be done to resolve it. This could be difficult for the students depending on their existing ideas of relationships and what they view as healthy vs unhealthy even if those ideas are skewed. Another example is exploring the legalization of marijuana. I would have the students explore both sides of the issue so that they can make a more informed decision as they navigate their ideas and beliefs.
Part 2:
1. Care for Self: Health is all about care for self. We will discuss self esteem and loving yourself. We will do activities like writing their own obituary and highlighting their strengths and skills and accomplishments. We also talk about nutrition, self care, and body image and appreciating their bodies and how best to maintain them which is the physical basis of self care.
2. Care for Familiar Others: We discuss relationships and communication in the health curriculum. This information is really important for students to learn how to best serve their relationships and making choices about communicating and maintaining friendships. We also talk about making health choices to best serve their close friends and family like in nutrition and communicable diseases as well as making lifestyle changes to prevent chronic non-communicable diseases.
3. Care for Strangers: In health we work to break down stigmas. Stigmas surrounding issues like addiction mental health, disease, sexuality and pregnancy. This helps my students care for strangers because it allows them to be more understanding, kind, patient and accepting of other people's experiences.
4. Care for the World: In health we talk about how individual choices affect more than just ourselves. We'll discuss how decisions to engage in substance abuse can harm others and harm the environment. We talk about recycling and taking responsibility for the environment and their impact on the environment. We also talk about safety and making safe choices and influencing their peers to be more safe. We also talk about disease prevention which is another important aspect of caring for the world because it will help them make choices when they are sick to prevent outbreaks.
1. How will you structure your classroom management plan to encourage higher levels of moral reasoning?
In my class I will allow students to grade their own work and the work of their peers to encourage them to foster their own integrity. At the beginning of the semester I would have a discussion with my students about their integrity and how it's up to them to maintain their integrity and how integrity makes them a good person. I would also want my students to start thinking about how much their integrity is worth to them and make them think twice about whether their integrity is worth an extra point on an assignment. I would talk to them about maintaining a level of maturity and the consequences of cheating both in my class and at the school and in the real world. I would really make the point that I am trusting them and that if they lose that trust it will be difficult for them to earn that trust again and how losing my trust would affect our classroom dynamic.
2. How will you engage students in discussions of moral reasoning with regard to your content? Provide at least one example and explain how you will guide the discussion to advance their moral reasoning.
There are many ways to engage students in moral reasoning in the health curriculum. I want to establish my classroom as a safe space so that my students feel confident and comfortable to share their ideas and opinions. Most likely, our first discussion on moral reasoning will be in the first unit in regards to healthy and unhealthy relationships. We will do an activity in class where I present the students with dilemmas in relationships and then engage the students in a discussion about what is problematic about the relationship and what could be done to resolve it. This could be difficult for the students depending on their existing ideas of relationships and what they view as healthy vs unhealthy even if those ideas are skewed. Another example is exploring the legalization of marijuana. I would have the students explore both sides of the issue so that they can make a more informed decision as they navigate their ideas and beliefs.
Part 2:
1. Care for Self: Health is all about care for self. We will discuss self esteem and loving yourself. We will do activities like writing their own obituary and highlighting their strengths and skills and accomplishments. We also talk about nutrition, self care, and body image and appreciating their bodies and how best to maintain them which is the physical basis of self care.
2. Care for Familiar Others: We discuss relationships and communication in the health curriculum. This information is really important for students to learn how to best serve their relationships and making choices about communicating and maintaining friendships. We also talk about making health choices to best serve their close friends and family like in nutrition and communicable diseases as well as making lifestyle changes to prevent chronic non-communicable diseases.
3. Care for Strangers: In health we work to break down stigmas. Stigmas surrounding issues like addiction mental health, disease, sexuality and pregnancy. This helps my students care for strangers because it allows them to be more understanding, kind, patient and accepting of other people's experiences.
4. Care for the World: In health we talk about how individual choices affect more than just ourselves. We'll discuss how decisions to engage in substance abuse can harm others and harm the environment. We talk about recycling and taking responsibility for the environment and their impact on the environment. We also talk about safety and making safe choices and influencing their peers to be more safe. We also talk about disease prevention which is another important aspect of caring for the world because it will help them make choices when they are sick to prevent outbreaks.
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