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Ethical Scenarios

[WLO: 3] [CLOs: 1, 2, 3, 4]

Prior to beginning work on this assignment, read the NAEYC Code of Ethical Conduct and Statement of Commitment (Links to an external site.).

Those
who work with young children often face difficult ethical decisions.
You are realizing your center has various situations that compromise the
code, but unfortunately your lead teacher and a few others within the
center don’t see the issues the same way you do. They have given you the
opportunity to justify your rationale and create a potential plan to
rectify the situations.

Review the scenarios below and choose two situations to rationalize and resolve for your lead teacher and colleagues. Use the NAEYC Code of Ethical Conduct and Statement of Commitment (Links to an external site.)
as a guide to make recommendations and identify rationale. There are
four areas of ethical responsibilities: children, families, colleagues,
and community and society. Be sure to select scenarios from different
areas.

Scenarios:

#1: Your center has a rule that no outside
food is to be brought in for snack or lunch for a child under any
circumstances. While your weekly menus often support the diverse needs
of the learners, you now have a student who has extreme sensitivities
and allergies. When trying to create the menu, you are realizing that
the other students would need to eat unbalanced meals and would begin
lacking the proper nutrition. You have asked your teacher about this
rule to see if it can be changed for this situation and she said no.

#2:
One child is having a hard time adjusting to class and his mom would
like to stay a little bit longer in the beginning of class to help him
get familiar and comfortable. You were allowing this and it was working
very well, however your director has now told you that this is not
allowed. Parents are required to drop off their kids and leave
immediately after.

#3: A little girl is having issues with another
little boy in the class. They often fight with each other and recently
she told you that he always tries to touch her and watch her in the
bathroom and she doesn’t like it. You took this very seriously, however
your director told you that she is only five years old so it’s nothing
to worry about. You believe you should contact both parents in this
situation, but the director argues that the parents will think you
aren’t doing a good job watching them.

#4: You have a few children
in your class with various cultures and religions. Some of these
conflict directly with the holiday calendar that your teacher has
created. You’ve asked your teacher if you can modify the activities to
help bring in all of the cultures of the families and she turned you
down. One parent has let you know that they have issues with Christmas
due to their own religion, however your teacher said, “this is the way
it’s always been.”

#5: You proposed curriculum surrounding manners
and helping others. You believe this curriculum is important for the
age you are working with, as a lot of the kids don’t seem to understand
the basic principles. Your teacher isn’t open to the change, but you are
seeing more and more selfish behaviors and think this type of
curriculum could really make an impact on their lives. Most of your kids
come from families where parents work at least two jobs, so you believe
they just don’t have the time to teach their kids these basic
principles.

To complete your assignment, identify each component below for each scenario:

• Summary
  of the scenario and justification that proves how this situation is
  unethical (rely heavily on the NAEYC Code of Ethical Conduct and
  Statement of Commitment here and point to specific principles within the
  code).
• Identify appropriate resources to use for the scenario and the individuals necessary to inform.
• Create a plan to not only solve the problem now, but also to prevent it from occurring again in the future.

In your paper,

• Include an introduction and a conclusion.
• Summarize both scenarios and the specific code numbers that were compromised within the scenarios.
• Identify the proper individuals necessary to inform.
• Determine appropriate resources for both scenarios.
• Explain the steps necessary to problem solve each scenario.

The Ethical Scenarios Paper

• Must
  be three to five double-spaced pages in length (not including title and
  references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in
  the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.)’s APA Style (Links to an external site.)
• Must include a separate title page with the following:
  • Title of paper
  • Student’s name
  • Course name and number
  • Instructor’s name
  • Date submitted
• For further assistance with the formatting and the title page, refer to APA Formatting for Word 2013 (Links to an external site.).
• Must utilize academic voice. See the Academic Voice (Links to an external site.) resource for additional guidance.
• Must
  include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction
  paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the
  purpose of your paper.
  • For assistance on writing Introductions & Conclusions (Links to an external site.) as well as Writing a Thesis Statement (Links to an external site.), refer to the Ashford Writing Center resources.
• Must use at least two credible sources in addition to the course text.
  • The Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources (Links to an external site.)
    table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you
    have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this
    assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the
    final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a
    particular assignment.
• Must document any information used from sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center’s Citing Within Your Paper (Links to an external site.)
• Must
  include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA
  style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. See the Formatting Your References List (Links to an external site.) resource in the Ashford Writing Center for specifications.

Carefully review the Grading Rubric (Links to an external site.) for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.