Professional development and schoolwide seminars supporting the ethics curriculum¶

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Evidence · no claims cited

Description¶

The Institute for Global Ethics offers "one-day or two-day on-site professional development workshops conducted by a Global Ethics staff trainer," plus on-site seminars and assemblies for students, using "lectures, group discussions, and small-group activities" with topical sessions on moral awareness, values definition, ethical analysis, and dilemma resolution. A one-day Ethical Fitness® seminar for school faculties costs $2,500, and three-day train-the-trainer seminars ($12,600) certify trainers to teach it. These supports build teacher capacity to deliver the curriculum's key concepts.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Trainers or staff provided by the Institute for Global Ethics, or school districts that certify their own trainers through the three-day train-the-trainer seminar

Constraints¶

• The professional development and seminars are paid services offered by the developer; the article reports no information on teacher training in the reviewed study

Target Learners¶

• high school teachers and school faculties
• middle and high school students attending seminars and assemblies

Target Learning Goals¶

• moral awareness
• values definition
• ethical analysis
• dilemma resolution

Related Strategies¶

• Pairing an ethics curriculum with integrated community service learning

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Building Decision Skills. (2006). WWC Intervention Report, What Works Clearinghouse. https://www.globalethics.org/services/edu/bds.htm