Ethics – Understanding the Importance of Professional Ethics (PowerPoint)
This is a National FFA Organization LifeKnowledge high school lesson (HS.33) on understanding the importance of professional ethics. Through an interest-approach skit, ethical scenarios, decision-making criteria, and discussion, students learn to distinguish ethical from unethical behavior, identify the benefits of making ethical decisions in the workplace, and define ethics. The lesson includes transparency masters and scoring rubrics for an ethics paragraph and poster.
At a glance
- Learning objectives
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- Identify ethical and unethical behavior.
- List benefits of making ethical decisions in the workplace.
- Define ethics.
- Time required
- Instruction time for this lesson: 50 minutes.
- Grade level
- High School
- Materials
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- Writing surface
- Paper
- Writing tools
- Poster paper and pens
- HS.33.TM.A–B
- HS.33.Assess.A—one per student
- HS.33.Assess.B—one per student
- Overhead projector
- List of information on HS.33.TM.B on cards hidden throughout the room
- Unit
- Stage One of Development—ME
- Problem Area
- How Do I Begin to Grow?
- Precepts
- I3: Demonstrate professional ethics. N3: Make ethical decisions.
- Resources
- Ricketts, Cliff. Leadership: Personal Development and Career Success Second Edition. Albany, New York. Delmar Publishing, 2003.
- Key Terms
- Ethics
Downloads & Links
Lesson plan
Presentation
Aligned Standards
National Standards
- NPH-H.9-12.5Using Communication Skills to Promote Health — Analyze how interpersonal communication affects relationships.