Ethics

1. What does ethics mean?
- Ethics is how a person decides what is morally correct and what is morally wrong. These tend to vary from person to person depending on culture, religion, beliefs, and personality.

2. How does ethics affect your work as a teacher with your students and your colleagues?
- When in the teacher environment, teachers are constantly faced with decisions that tap into their belief regarding ethics. With students, teachers want to exhibit the most positive and mature ethics in order to set a good example for their students and to have a calm and well controlled classroom. When working with colleagues, there are often a variety of personalities with in a school and in turn a variety in ethics. It is not necessarily that some ethics are better than others, but it does boil down to how these ethics are exhibited in the school environment. Many times the basis of how ethics should be exhibited is created by those in charge of a school or district.
3. Positives and negatives of being concerned with ethics?
- When teachers are concerned about their ethics they are most often trying to exhibit them in a better light for their students and colleagues. This can help a school in terms of the staff environment. If all of the staff and teachers in a school are worried about their ethics and how they will effect others, there is much less likely to be petty problems with in. These teachers will also look to provide the best possible outlook for their students.
- If teachers decide not to concern themselves with ethics, they can face a number of problems with in their classroom. They could exhibit inappropriate language or body language in their classroom, they may participate in inappropriate actions outside of the school environment, and they may also have problems with some of their colleagues when addressing ethical subjects.