Edu215 Week 2 Ethical Dilemmas

A dilemma is more than just a problem. It is "a situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two or more alternatives, sometimes equally undesirable ones." Choose one of the following dilemmas that could occur in the early childhood/elementary setting.    A. It is state testing season, and everyone at the school is anxious. You have been asked to be a proctor for a class for the test. On Day 2 of testing, as the students are working in their test booklets, you observe the teacher talking to individual students and pointing at answer choices. You suddenly realize she has been telling students the answers. If you tell someone, the students will suffer the consequences and have to take the test all over again. The teacher might be terminated. But the rules for the test indicate that this teacher's actions are clearly illegal. What should you do?   B. You are a teacher of a kindergarten class with 17 students. There is an instructional assistant who comes in three days a week to help in your room. She is the best IA that you have ever had. However, you start to notice that the IA is giving special treatment to a particular little girl in your class. She allows her to be the first one to play with new materials, be whatever job she wants for the day, and does not make her sit and follow the directions. Over time you find out that this little girl is the IA’s niece, and she did not tell anyone. What do you do?   C. You have the principal’s son, Josiah, in your classroom. He’s a good kid who gets along with everyone and works hard, but his mom, the principal, is a “helicopter parent” and can be rather annoying at times. One day during a weekly vocabulary test, you see Josiah take something out of his desk several times, look at it, and put it back in the desk. You casually stroll over to his area of the room to observe his behavior. You realize that he is pulling a list of the week’s vocabulary words and their definitions out of his desk during the test. What do you do?    D. You have a student in your 3rd grade class who does not stand for the daily Pledge of Allegiance. The school has the Pledge every morning during Morning Announcements. You noticed that the student didn’t stand one day last week, and this week, the student hasn’t stood up at all. The students are noticing the behavior and are talking among themselves. What do you do?    E. Ms. B teaches 2nd grade. You are an instructional assistant in her class. She gives the class directions for a short writing assignment that is to be completed in the next 15 minutes. Josh isn’t paying attention and missed the directions. He frequently bothers his classmates by humming, tapping his pencil, scraping his chair along the floor, making noises, and speaking out of turn. He asks for the directions to be repeated. The other students in the class begin to make fun of Josh and ridicule him for not paying attention once again. Ms. B, feeling frustrated because she is asked to repeat the instructions once again, ignores Josh and the other students and looks out of the window instead. What do you do?    F. Kacey is a Pre-K student and has always been a picky eater. Her mother has met with the classroom teacher, Ms. M, a number of times to discuss options, but after six months, Kacey still barely picks at the food that is offered, and the mother is deeply concerned. As a solution, she develops a sticker chart and requests the Ms. M award Kacey a sticker every time she cleans her plate, culminating with a prize at the end of the week. This is clearly not a practice the school endorses. What should Ms. M do?  G. Sunny is a new first-grade student in your class. She prefers to be called Sunny and wants to be referred to as “she” and “her” although that is not the name and pronoun which the parents had registered the student. She wears jewelry and dresses and loves to twirl around. Some of Sunny’s teachers have refused to call her by her preferred name and pronoun while other teachers have supported the student. What should you do?     Choose 1 of the following options to complete this assignment:  Option 1: Design an 8- to 10-frame teacher superhero cartoon or comic strip, using a cartoon or comic strip generator or tool from the Internet. Option 2: Create a 1-page collage using Piktochart, Popplet, or Powtoon located in the Technology Resources Library. Option 3: Create a 4-7 slide PowerPoint presentation using clipart characters/photos/scenes from a classroom. You can use a text box to indicate what the characters are saying or use speaker notes. Please submit as a PowerPoint, not a PDF. Option 4: Create a 5- to 10-minute digital