I think it is very important for my children to learn

I think it is very important for my children to
learn about what is right and wrong. I try to give them examples and life experiences each day
about what is right and wrong.” (L. Johnson, personal communication, April 9, 2020). I believe
that it is not the sole responsibility of the parent to teach and raise a child to instill moral
character, but it is the responsibility of the school and community to have a role in this also. Our
youth are subjected to thousands of negative effects through the mass media and their friends
every day, combine with the depressing statistic that most parents are spending less and less time
with their children. Students need the tools, skills and guidance to be able to handle the
difficulties that are placed on them by society. I believe that therefore educators have a
responsibility to bring moral and ethical development into their teaching.
Through the future instructional strategies that I have decided to implement into my
classroom, I believe my students would gain the much needed moral and ethical guidance that
they need to develop into the model citizens that this world deserves. These strategies are geared
to give my students real life role models to emulate instead of just reading about people in

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textbooks or online. I believe that having a person that is within their community to model their
behaviors to may have a greater impact then those that they may read about, for they can witness
firsthand the role models behaviors. Ms. Johnson (personal communication, April 9, 2020)
stated, “I feel that there is a lot of good and bad within society. We see it every day. We
experience injustice within our society but on the other hand we also experience heart-felt acts in
our society, which can be displayed on social media, TV and online. I think it is important to
address these situations as they occur, because it is an important learning tool to teach my
children about what is acceptable and what is not.” When students try to emulate celebrities, I do
not believe that they are getting the one-hundred percent truth about what morals and ethics that
the celebrity really holds, it is purely an image that the celebrity may be trying to portray. But as
Ms. Johnson stated, I think that as parents and teachers, we all need to take all the experiences of
a person and use them as learning tools to help guide our children and students down the right
path of life.

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References
Gutek, G. (2014). Philosophical, Ideological, and Theoretical Perspectives on Education.
Chicago, IL: Pearson Education, Inc.
Ryan, K. O. (Producer). (2011). A Child's Mind: How Kids Learn Right & Wrong [Video file].
Learning Seed. Retrieved June 13, 2016, from Education in Video: Volume I.