Enduring Understandings

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Enduring Understandings
Teaching/Learning Strategies

• Awareness of personal prejudices and limitations

• Have students view clips of To Kill a
  Mockingbird and develop new endings that
  illustrate the characters awareness of personal
  prejudices
• Conduct a Socratic Seminar
• Have students walk in the shoes of probationers
  by riding bus to the office from an unknown
  neighborhood
• Have students complete a workshop on how to
  change

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Teaching/Learning Strategies
Enduring Understandings

• Importance of resisting the stereotyping of others

• Have students complete the Ethics of Diversity
  workshops labeling exercise which deals with
  stereotyping
• Have students research the impact of stereotyping
  others and complete an interactive telling of
  what they discovered through role playing,
  telling a story, etc.
• Challenge students to keep a detailed journal of
  when they stereotype others for a month and then
  have them share their observations

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Enduring Understandings
Teaching/Learning Strategies

• Importance
• of exhibiting
• ethical behaviors
• at work and daily life

• Have students review departmental codes of
  ethics, policy and procedures and attend Ethical
  Use of Authority workshop
• Have students compare those documents with the
  Ethics of society and religions, the Principle
  of Utility and Kantdeontological ethics
• Have students develop their own code of ethics
  and guidelines for dealing with probationers and
  society

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Enduring Understandings
Teaching/Learning Strategies

• After viewing video have students debate two
  sides of the moral message with emphasis on the
  negative impact on various characters
• Have students reflect and discuss the impact of
  their stereotyping based on entries from journals
• Have students create an exhibition, showing the
  impact of unethical and ethical behavior

• Impact of unethical behaviors on self and others