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What is ethics?

Ethics and Accountability Jennifer Harding Manager Workforce Capability and Development Teacher Induction September 9 2009. What is ethics?. knowing the difference between right and wrong and choosing to do what is right. Love to Know Business

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What is ethics?

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  1. Ethics and AccountabilityJennifer HardingManager Workforce Capability and DevelopmentTeacher Induction September 9 2009

  2. What is ethics? • knowing the difference between right and wrong and choosing to do what is right. Love to Know Business http://business.lovetoknow.com/wiki/A_Definition_for_Business_Ethics Last accessed 13th January 2009

  3. What is accountability? • an obligation or willingness to accept responsibility or to account for one's actions Meriam Webster Dictionary http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=accountability Last accessed 23rd January 2008

  4. http://www.ethicsnetwork.net

  5. http://users.bigpond.com/KEVINRBECK/ethics.htm

  6. Public servants are accountable to the public, and to meaningful standards of conduct and competence. http://ched-macquigg.blogspot.com/2007/09/beth-everitt-made-promise.html Last accessed 14th January 2009

  7. A teacher, 28, sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in jail for having an unlawful sexual relationship with a 14 yr female student http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/12/12/2445067.htm?section=australia Dance teacher Jennifer Porter, the woman charged with leaving the scene of an accident that left two children dead. http://www.sptimes.com/2005/11/04/Tampabay/The_Jennifer_Porter_c.shtml

  8. Wednesday, October 10, 2007 • this guy stopped me after some awkward seconds i realised it was one of my old TAFE teachers. One of favorites, i used to call his class, "unethical 101".He prided himself on knowing how to scam people out of money, and basically told me everything i know about sales, …. His life long goal was to send a class into the wilderness and secretly video tape it...he was a lil strange. http://scottyknows.blogspot.com/search?q=unethical+101

  9. If teachers were robots would ethical dilemmas exist?

  10. Activity • Think of a time when you had to deal with an ethical dilemma. • What made the situation an ethical dilemma? • How did you deal with the ethical dilemma? • What was the outcome?

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