The Institute for Global Ethics (IGE) offers a variety of downloadable K-College level curriculum, to members of the Ethical Literacy Learning Community, based on a hands-on, interactive classroom model for teaching ethics. Each curriculum guides teachers and students through a practical and conceptual process for making ethical decisions and defining shared values. Curriculum titles include.
Elementary Decision Skills (K-2)
Elementary Decision Skills is designed to help K-2 teachers lay the conceptual groundwork for understanding and resolving the tough right-versus-right dilemmas that face each of us every day. Rather than dictating formula, this framework encourages divergent, crtical thinking and provides students with experiences and language that will open their eyes to the rich ethical fabric of the world around them.
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Elementary Decision Skills (3-5)
Elementary Decision Skills is designed to help 3-5 teachers lay the conceptual groundwork for understanding and resolving the tough right-versus-right dilemmas that face each of us every day. Rather than dictating formula, this framework encourages divergent, crtical thinking and provides students with experiences and language that will open their eyes to the rich ethical fabric of the world around them.
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Building Decision Skills (6-12)
Ethics involves the study of standards relating to right and wrong. Ethics is about what we “ought” to do. Ethical dilemmas occur when two choices–each of which appears to be right–come into conflict. We call these right-versus-right dilemmas, and our research shows that students face them all the time:
- Should I tell on a friend or say nothing and remain loyal?
- Should I sacrifice my own needs for the needs of the larger group?
- Should I always do what the rule says, or are there exceptions that ought to be made?
Building Decision Skills is designed to assist teachers in laying the conceptual groundwork for understanding and resolving the tough right-versus-right issues that face each of us every day. It provides students with a language of ethics and opens their eyes to the rich ethical fabric of the world around them.
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Decision Skills for Colleges
The Decision Skills for Colleges curriculum is a previously tested and highly effective approach to learning the concepts and skills of ethical decision making and applying them to the real-life experiences of college students regardless of major, age, gender, religious affiliation, or cultural and ethnic background. Used with all ages, from adults in work and professional settings to elementary school children, this curriculum, adapted from Building Decision Skills, is designed for a variety of classroom formats and approaches in the higher education setting. The curriculum is not intended to support, nor is the Decisions Skills for Colleges license-holder certified to deliver, the Ethical Fitness Seminar. Within a sequential and structured framework, the facilitator has multiple options for presenting basic concepts and adding supplemental material as appropriate.
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Ethics and Service (Service Learning)
Ethics and Service is designed to help you maximize the effectiveness of your teaching by combining the values and service messages into one sequential process. This first edition of Ethics & Service has been organized into a series of 12 basic lesson plans, with a teacher’s guide preceding them and an assessment section following them.
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Ethics and Choices (Youth at Risk)
Ethics and Choices is designed to assist teachers and facilitators in laying the conceptual groundwork for understanding and resolving the tough right-versus-right issues that face each of us every day. It provides students with a language of ethics and opens their eyes to the rich ethical fabric of the world around them.
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How Big is Your Backyard? (Environmental)
How Big is Your Backyard? was developed to give educators a way to teach environmental studies through the lens of ethics. Using the tools for ethical decision making developed by the Institute for Global Ethics, How Big is Your Backyard? looks at the ecological and ethical dimensions of environmental issues. Through experiential learning in the field, sensitivity to the natural environment is enhanced while specific concepts are taught. This process gives students a way to look at the complex and serious environmental issues we face in the 21st century and to make informed, values-based decisions.
How Big is Your Backyard? is designed to help educators maximize the effectiveness of their teaching by combining ethical decision making and environmental studies into one sequential process. The first edition of this curriculum has been organized into ten lesson plans, with a teacher’s guide at the beginning and an assessment section at the end. Many of these lessons are clearly experiential and require active participation in the outdoors. Other lessons are more traditional but are designed to work well outside in a less formal setting. This curriculum is designed with the expectation that teachers will expand on the lessons and add additional activities where they see fit. The subjects touched on here provide only an introduction to specific areas of environmental studies. There are many more lessons that can and should be added to students’ study of the natural environment.
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Tough Choices: Today and in History (History)
This teacher’s guide is designed to be used in conjunction with the interactive video, Tough Choices: Today and in History. We encourage teachers to use these materials as they fit best in each classroom program, not as an inflexible formula that must be followed that must be followed to the letter. That said, we have been careful to design the guide in strict sequence according to the film, including a running account of highlights from the video so teachers will be oriented for the classroom activities and to the opportunities for discussion.
Each act of the film introduces a new actor and a new series of ethical dilemmas to consider. For each act, the teacher’s guide provides a Teacher Background Page and a Classwork Outline.
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