Exploring General Capabilities: Ethical Understanding

This course will help you identify and incorporate different approaches to the General Capability: Ethical Understanding into your everyday teaching practice.You’ll learn:

• What ethics and ethical issues could look like in a classroom context
• Why ethical understanding is important for 21st Century teaching and learning
• Where ethical understanding fits within the Australian Curriculum
• Approaches to teaching ethical understanding, including applying ethical principles, developing and applying values criteria, and reflecting for ethical understanding

This course will take 2 hours to complete. Enjoy it in one session or spread it out over a few weeks.

This course is on-demand and for private study. Learn at your own pace and at times that suit you. Get a certificate when you finish. You will have ongoing access.

• Primary and Secondary: Ethical Understanding
• General Capabilities: Personal and Social Capabilities, Critical and Creative Thinking

This course is mapped to the Professional Standards for Teachers. It is accredited for teacher professional development hours in the following states and territories:

Proficient Teacher
2.1 Apply knowledge of the content and teaching strategies of the teaching area to develop engaging teaching activities.
2.2 Organise content into coherent, well-sequenced learning and teaching programs.
3.2 Plan and implement well-structured learning and teaching programs or lesson sequences that engage students and promote learning.
3.3 Select and use relevant teaching strategies to develop knowledge, skills, problem solving and critical and creative thinking.

 

This program has been approved for accreditation within the ACT for 2023.
Please be advised you will be accredited within 14 days of completion.  

Jarryd Bendall comes from a long line of teachers, which is why he initially avoided this calling. After a myriad of roles in law, medicine, used car sales, and as the mascot for the Western Bulldogs AFL team, Jarryd eventually taught primary school for a number of years, before combining his love for writing and education at an Education Specialist role with Cool. This role sees him as a bridge between knowledgeable industry experts and classroom teachers, bringing excellence into the classroom and challenging the average curriculum with innovative and effective ideas.