Module Five: Ethical Responsibilities in EC

Learning Objectives:

• Use strengths-based approaches to recognize your own and others’ unique perspectives, biases, experiences, skills, beliefs, cultures, and identities.

• Apply the content of the NAEYC Code of Ethical Conduct and the Supplement for Early Childhood Program Administrators to a given scenario. 

• Compare the guidance from the NAEYC Ethics documents with their experience of evidence of systemic and individual bias in education settings.

• Demonstrate collaborative problem solving to support building awareness of barriers and action steps to meet individual goals.

• Make commitments and action plans to respond in educational settings where you find evidence of systemic or individual bias.

Module Resources:

These resources are needed before or used for the Module 5 session.

• Reframing: Remove judgment to shift

• NAEYC Code of Ethical Conduct 

• NAEYC Code of Ethical Conduct: Supplement for Early Childhood Adult Educators (2004) 

• NAEYC’s Recommendations for those Facilitating Educators

• Coach Partner Action Plan

Additional Module Resources:

• International Coaching Federation (ICF) Code of Ethics

• Other Ethical Dilemmas Activity

• “Positive Reframing and Examining the Evidence” 

• Teaching the NAEYC Code of Ethical Conduct: A Resource Guide Revised Ed. (2016) by Stephanie Feeney, Nancy K. Freeman, and Eva Moravcik 

• Interpersonal Positive Reframing in the Daily Lives of Couples Coping with Breast Cancer

• How Cognitive Reframing Works

• The Convention on the Rights of the Child: The children’s version, UNICEF

• Ethical dilemmas of the early childhood professional: A comparative study, Early Childhood Research Quarterly, Volume 5, Issue 4, December 1990, p 461-474

• Focus on Ethics: Ethical Issues -Responsibilities and Dilemmas. NAEYC, Stephanie Feeney, Nancy K. Freeman

Competencies

• Competencies for Early Childhood Educators and Professionals

• Colorado Competencies for Early Childhood Coaches