ETHICS demonstrate the skills necessary and
appropriate in the teaching of ethics at
Teaching the New Ethics the college level, such as identifying and
Curriculum managing group dynamics, and
facilitating discussions.
Course Description
Exercise
Designed for teachers of Ethics under the new
CHED General Education Curriculum, the What is the most important reason why
seminar course serves as training and also for you teach Subject Ethics? (if you
those who will further guide other ethics
haven’t taught it, what would be your #1
teachers throughout the country, particularly in
their service areas/schools. goal?)
Do you think the way you teach Ethics
Thus, the course deals with both the substance as is accomplishing your goal? Why yes,
well as the pedagogy of ethics. The former why no?
concerns the principles of ethical behavior in What is the most important change you,
modern society at the level of the person, will introduce in the way you teach
society, and interaction with the environment Ethics?
and other shared resources (CMO 20 s2013),
while the latter pertains to the various methods Processing Techniques:
of teaching the course, as well as the skills
necessary to accomplish it, in a way that Ask the question, and please take note
incorporates the most recent principles of and that the answers should parallel the
insights into teaching in the college level. questions.
Clarify the answers which are not clear
Learning Outcomes: to you, so that the students will become
aware of their answers and make them
Difference between moral and non-
particular (deductive approach).
moral problems;
Don’t drop any hanging answers if the
explain the influence of Filipino culture
answers are not clear for both the
on the way the students look at moral
facilitator and the students.
experiences and solve moral dilemmas;
Make the answers of the students to be
describe what a moral experience is as it
the current theme of the session.
happens in different levels of human
existence; Critical Thinking on Ethics
describe the elements of moral
Carefully read the text/concepts (facts,
development and moral experience;
something, situation, text, person)
make sound ethical judgments based on
principles, facts, and the stakeholders; Don’t create an opinion if you are not
aware on the physical evidence
develop sensitivity to the common good;
(Anecdotal).
understand and internalize the principles
The goal is to understand Critical /
of ethical behavior in modern society at
critique (puna) (ayaw o gusto).
the level of the person, society, and
interaction with the environment and
other shared resources;
To Think Critically, Think RED The willingness to absorb the moral
dilemma/s.
How should we teach ETHICS?
ETHICS CAN BE TAUGHT!
Heuristic Approach (find/discovery)
(Socrates, James Rest, Lawrence Start from the students’ questions, their
Kohlberg) experiences not ours.
Ethics
“We must start with the student They will remember it better because
experiences and the culture of the they will be emotionally attached to the
professional world and then build the matterr and not treat it as something to
theories from there” (Werhane, 2002). be memorized.
Ethics require cognition (reason), moral The heuristic approach needs different skill
imagination, and will. sets:
Ethics teaches us to become prudent
(prudential-practical knowledge). Listening
R ecognize Assumptions
Keys to
Asking the right
CRITICAL question
E valuate Arguments
Opening one’s self to
THINKING
different experiences
Synthesizing (tying up the discussion
D raw Conclusions
and relating
it to the theories we have mastered as
Ethics and Cognition EXPERTS)
Ethical judgment is not about feelings, Summary
it’s all about facts, and cognition
Why Ethics?
(reason).
A course that helps the students to think To capacitate students so they:
about their feelings. Moral judgment.
become aware of their moral dilemmas.
Ethics and Moral Imagination Critically examine their ethical
traditions and standards, and
Must be creative in presenting the
consequently “OWN” and CHANGE
theories and cases.
them.
Ethics and Will Make reasonable value-based ethical
decisions. Sensitive, Analytic, Willful.
Develop the students to think if there
is/are moral dilemma/s. How?
A different course outline
Methodologies and Tools
Culture and environment scanning
Case analysis using a mix of cases
progressing from individual to
organizational to systematic
Individual and group drills Assessment
Teaching Ethics…
- We want to teach our students to be
mindful of those situations of hard
choices. Matuto silang mabagabag;
TO CONFRONT these and articulate
them.
- We must help them to make control of
each ethical dilemma as a way of
defining their character, their lives, and
their country’s future; and to make them
see that these situations are not
occasional isolated instances where they
have to choose between good and evil.
- The course is all about developing
phronesis. To do so we must provide the
occasions, the tools, and the staging area
chosen, with the singular goal of helping
from them into ethical human beings.
