Tough Choices for Teachers: Ethical Challenges in Today's Schools and Classrooms
I recommendTough Choices for Teachersto anyone considering teaching as a profession; it will be an invaluable resource. The authors have carefully crafted each chapter based on research and their own experiences with ethical issues, and as a result, the reader is presented with realistic, complex case studies. Each chapter concludes with key questions that guide the reader through a process to determine possible solutions to the scenarios.Tough Choices for Teachersprepares educators to meet the challenge of important ethical situations that arise in public schools on a daily basis. (Mark Baldwin, dean of the College of Education at California State University, San Marcos)Tough Choices for Teachersis an engaging set of real-world cases that dramatically illustrate some of the difficult decisions educators are confronted with in their classrooms, schools, and communities. A frank discussion of the importance of these ethical challenges is a must for pre-service and in-service teachers who will lead our nation's classrooms in the twenty-first century. (Stuart E. Gothold, retired Los Angeles County superintendent of schools and clinical professor emeritus at the University of Southern California's)Tough Choices for Teachers: Ethical Challenges in Today's Schools and Classroomsis a significant addition to the growing pool of instructional resources with subject matter concentrating on professional ethics in teacher education. It is a primer for integrating ethics philosophy with analysis of cases featuring ethical dilemmas faced by teachers in their teacher preparation curricula undergirding national and state accreditation standards and teaching performance expectations. The time is right for this book. It fits into a progressive focus on teacher and student conduct in an age of widespread professional and media attention to the phenomena.(Issues In Teacher Education)