Curricula Samples
Elementary Decision Skills
The Elementary Decision Skills curriculum provides a hands-on, interactive classroom model for teaching ethics in educational settings. Newly revised and expanded, the curriculum guides teachers and students through a practical and conceptual process of making ethical decisions and defining shared values.
Goals of Elementary Decision Skills
- To cultivate awareness that "we're all in this together," and that our consideration of each other is essential
- To provide a language for talking about key ethics concepts, and to encourage discussion of ethical issues
- To provide practical experience with core values as the underpinnings to common ethical ground
- To promote Ethical Fitness® by providing tools and experiences in analyzing and resolving tough ethical dilemmas
- To promote moral courage through practical experience in putting ethics into action
Intended Learning Outcomes
After completing all age-appropriate lessons in this curriculum, students should be able to:
- Understand the basic responsibilities of working in any group
- Use ethics terminology appropriately and consistently
- Recognize and understand most choices between right and wrong
- Understand that some choices are a conflict of right versus right
- Analyze, to some degree, right-versus-right dilemmas based on four paradigms and begin to resolve right-versus-right dilemmas
- Define and recognize moral courage as a part of ethical decision making
Pricing
- Elementary Decision Skills: K-2
$50.00 (incl. Tough Choices paperback) - Elementary Decision Skills: 3-5
$50.00 (incl. Tough Choices paperback) - Elementary Decision Skills: Complete K-5
$90.00 (incl. Tough Choices paperback) - Bound in an 8-1/2" x 11" three-ring binder to facilitate photocopying of student materials
The Concept "Build"
Elementary Decision Skills is organized by concepts that build on one another as follows:
- Awareness
- Values
- Decision Making
Each curriculum is accompanied by a teachers' guide; lesson plans including readings, overheads, and handouts; numerous examples of ethical dilemmas appropriate to elementary-school settings; assessment tools; listings of additional resources; and, for younger students, "A Note to Parents" discussing the lessons.
