
Exploring General Capabilities: Ethical Understanding
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Course Summary
Course Content

Getting Started
Introduction
Background to ethics
Set some learning goals

Ethical Understanding in the Australian Curriculum
What is ethics?
A world without ethics
What is an ethical issue?
General Capability: Ethical Understanding

Approaches to Teaching Ethical Understanding
Teaching ethical principles
Applying ethical principles
Values criteria and ethical understanding
Applying values criteria
Ethical understanding as a three-part process
Guiding questions of the three-part process
Try it yourself
Teaching tips
Reflection

Ethical Understanding in Action
Cool lesson plans

Reflection
Taxonomy of learning
Congratulations
Course Writer

Gabrielle Munro has worked in the education sector for over 12 years as a classroom teacher and tertiary educator of pre-service teachers. Gabrielle loves working with teachers to develop practical teaching skills while challenging them to think creatively about how best to teach their students.

Sam Charlotte is a secondary English and Humanities teacher with over 4 years of classroom and student management experience. Sam left the classroom in 2014 to have a wider impact on Australian students. She joined The Foundation for Young Australians then Cool.org where she excelled in pedagogical application and curriculum design. She currently works in special needs education. Sam is passionate about the creation of innovative and practical resources for teachers to engage and inspire students.