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Making a Moral Decision

Katherine Irizarry Rosario

Lisa Gerber

Ethic

Capella University

March 24, 2017

Making a Moral Decision

In every individuals daily life we have to approach controversy and learn how make a best decision. Situation presented in our life style can be difficult when we are experience conflicts duties, values and see the consequences that the situation or problem can bring with. Using critical thinking and understanding the ethical theories can help to manage the problem and make a more accurate decision for every part involved.

Ethical situation

I work with a teacher that have more than forty year of experience teaching fourth graders, She retired move to Florida and start working at the school with us. This teacher is now working with me in kindergarten, I’m hers assistant, working with her I find out that she is not consistent, change her mind constantly making me waste time and materials. I had been working with her for three long years with this situation, she talk to the dean of the school about retire last year and three weeks later she change her mind.

This year she came out with the same thinking and the then of the school in conjunction with the head master tell her that she is definitely out at the end of the school year and she wont be able to change her mind. She is a type of person that need to be in control of everything and find out that she wont be able to change mind had her with a different attitude, she Don't teach the same way one day she decide to do something the next day she don’t want me to do it, for example have her material ready for the math and language class, center area is where the kids have five different learning tables in where involve writing, motor skills, art, reading, see and do.

The teacher don't want me to help the kids with the writing journals something that I used to do the first two years. During centers now she call a group of kids to do reading with her and basically I do center during that period, but she really care less about what I do during center I came with the Idea to review math with the kids for there to know how they are doing and how much they are understanding, but she don’t even look at the paper she tell me to check the paper and send them home. Everything that I do bathers her and I heard her talking about politics with one of our students a five year old, her defending her position and believe and talking bad about the other candidate, I find this very inappropriate, first of all because he is a five years old and second because we should not talk about politic and we should be neutral in that aspect. We have basically two more month of school, What should I do?

Theories of Normative Ethic

There are many theories how approach ethical issues, some of these theories can have some opinions that may differs from each others but share the basic principals. The normative theory have three traditional approaches virtue, deontological and theological ethics.

Virtue is one of the three normative theories this one emphasize in moral character. A virtuous individual is generous, good, admirable and that person actions are according of their believe.

Reference

Hursthouse, Rosalind and Pettigrove, Glen, "Virtue Ethics", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2016 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2016/entries/ethics-virtue/>.