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: 

(Items with ** are needed before or during class, everything else is additional resources.)

PDF

• Reframing: Remove judgment to shift

• **NAEYC Code of Ethical Conduct (2011)

  • Glossary Terms Related to Ethics, page 8

  • Statement of Commitment, page 9 (in the Participant Guidebook)

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

• Scenarios from NAEYC: (in the Participant Guidebook)

"Don't Let My Son Dress Up as a Girl! (2017)"

"Gender Expression and Identity (2019)"

 "Make Sure My Child Drinks Her Milk (2016)"

• Reframing to Remove Judgment and Shift Perspectives

• Using a Dilemma Case in Early Childhood Teacher Education: Does it Promote Theory and Practice Connection, Kevser KOC 

• The Primary Program for All Children

• How do early childhood education leaders navigate ethical dilemmas within the context of marketized provision in England?

• Other Ethical Dilemmas 

• Coach Partner Action Plan

Video

Websites

• International Coaching Federation (ICF) Code of Ethics

Articles

• “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" 

• Recommendations for Facilitating Educator Preparation and Professional Development

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

• NAEYC Focus on Ethics: Ethical Issues–Responsibilities and Dilemmas from Young Children March 2016 Vol. 71, No. 1 

• 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

Books

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

Competencies 

• Colorado Competencies for Early Childhood Educators