Exploring General Capabilities: Ethical Understanding

Course summary

This course will help you identify and incorporate different approaches to the General Capability: Ethical Understanding into your everyday teaching practice.

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You will learn:

• What ethics and ethical issues could look like in a classroom context.
• Why ethical understanding is important for 21st Century teaching and learning.
• Where ethical understanding fits within the Australian Curriculum.
• Approaches to teaching ethical understanding, including applying ethical principles, developing and applying values criteria, and reflecting on ethical understanding.

Course time:

This course will take you 2 hours to complete. Enjoy it in one session or spread it out over a few weeks. You will have ongoing access via your personal dashboard.

Accreditation:

This course is mapped to the Professional Standards for Teachers. It is accredited for teacher professional development hours in the following states and territories:

Proficient Teacher:

• 2.1 Apply knowledge of the content and teaching strategies of the teaching area to develop engaging teaching activities.
• 2.2 Organise content into coherent, well-sequenced learning and teaching programs.
• 3.2 Plan and implement well-structured learning and teaching programs or lesson sequences that engage students and promote learning.
• 3.3 Select and use relevant teaching strategies to develop knowledge, skills, problem solving and critical and creative thinking.

This course is not currently accredited in NSW (NESA). However, it can be counted toward NESA PD elective hours.

This course is accredited by TQI for 2 hours of professional development for teachers in the ACT for 2024.

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Course Content

Getting Started

01.

Introduction

02.

Background to ethics

03.

Set some learning goals

Ethical Understanding in the Australian Curriculum

04.

What is ethics?

05.

A world without ethics

06.

What is an ethical issue?

07.

General Capability: Ethical Understanding

Approaches to Teaching Ethical Understanding

08.

Teaching ethical principles

09.

Applying ethical principles

10.

Values criteria and ethical understanding

11.

Applying values criteria

12.

Ethical understanding as a three-part process

13.

Guiding questions of the three-part process

14.

Try it yourself

15.

Teaching tips

16.

Reflection

Ethical Understanding in Action

17.

Cool lesson plans

Reflection

18.

Taxonomy of learning

19.

Congratulations

Course instructors

Jarryd Bendall comes from a long line of teachers, which is why he initially avoided this calling. After a myriad of roles in law, medicine, used car sales, and as the mascot for the Western Bulldogs AFL team, Jarryd eventually taught primary school for a number of years, before combining his love for writing and education at an Education Specialist role with Cool. This role sees him as a bridge between knowledgeable industry experts and classroom teachers, bringing excellence into the classroom and challenging the average curriculum with innovative and effective ideas.

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