TOPIC

: THE ETHICAL, MORAL AND PROFESSIONALISM DILEMMA.

SITUATION : One of your students confesses to you that he is a homosexual. He asks you not to reveal this fact to his parents. Explain the ethical, moral and professional dilemma for you as a teacher.

ETHICAL DILEMMA MORAL AND PROFESSIONALISM An ethical, moral and professionalism dilemma is a complex situation that often involves an apparent mental conflict between moral imperatives, in which to obey one would result in transgressing another. This is also called an ethical paradox since in moral philosophy, paradox often plays a central role in ethics debates. Ethical dilemmas are often cited in an attempt to refute an ethical system or moral code, as well as the worldview that encompasses or grows from it. In my situation, which one of my student admits that he is homosexual and I am having a complex situation that involves apparent conflict between moral imperatives. Perhaps for that student the most commonly cited ethical conflict is that between an imperative or injunction not to discuss with his family that he is gay because he assume that his family will have prejudice towards him instead of guiding him back on right track. Due to this situation, the next topic is all about how to overcome this problem and what process occur to solves this matter.

What you can do to help your students do the right thing in your profession: The process that leads to effective moral action can be roughly divided into three components:

1 . Moral awareness: the process of identifying the ethical issues involved, the parties who have a stake in the action, what is at stake, and what are the action options.

2 . Moral judgment: the process of weighing the ethical considerations that bear on the situation and determining the moral course of action.

3 . Acting in accordance with moral judgment: deciding what the right thing to do is not enough. One still needs to form the intention to do the moral thing and deal with practical obstacles in order to act effectively.

IMPROVING MORAL AWARENESS Challenge students to look for the ethical aspects of situations. If you dont, most likely they won't bother looking for these themselves. If you do, youll encourage this as a habit. Alert students to obstacles that may impede moral awareness so that they develop a habit of mindfulness about these obstacles. Often, just being aware of these obstacles can be enough to guard against them. Challenge students to role-play various parties impacted by the actions in question. Seeing the world from the perspective of others and empathizing with others is central to moral awareness. Getting your students to role-play is a good way to encourage that. Encourage students to be creative in identifying action options. Many of us resign ourselves too quickly to the options that appear obvious to us. The more options we identify, however, the better our decisions making.

Help create high expectations regarding the importance of good moral inquiry to help create the classroom, departmental, and school-wide expectation that investigations on topics that potentially touch on moral issues, will include a critical examination of the moral impact such practices may have on all affected parties. Such an expectation would replace the norm common today, which is largely to ignore the ethical implications of professional practices presented in classroom discussions.

MAKING GOOD ETHICAL JUDGMENTS Provide opportunities to practice ethical judgment by examining issues from IOU angles:

Ideals how do the actions/policies measure up to your ideals about what someone with good character does? Obligations what obligations does the acting party have to others? Utilitarian considerations what are the positive and negative consequences of the actions in question for the greater social good?

We know about many of these obstacles: prejudices, self-serving leaps of reasoning, etc. Being aware of these can help.

Provide students with opportunities for self-reflection on their decision-making process and on their vision of themselves as professionals Self-reflection on ones ethical decision-making process can lead to greater attention to the details of that process. And self-reflection about who you want to be can help you focus on taking the steps needed to become that person.

ACTING IN ACCORDANCE WITH THEIR VALUES AND DOING SO EFFECTIVELY Prompt students to consider seriously the obstacles to ethically courageous action and to become aware of the costs of inaction. This may help both to motivate students to do the right thing and to prepare them for effective ethical action.

Recount memorable stories from your field that illustrate ethical courage. These might be published stories, your own antidotes, or perhaps those of a guest speaker. Few things can give your students an idea of the realities of acting on ones moral convictions in your field than hearing it from you.

Help students identify the arguments the opposing side is going to use so that they are prepared to deal with them. Effective ethical action often requires the ability to argue ones position effectively.

Help students find common ground with a balance of inquiry and sincere, direct, and well-considered advocacy. Effective ethical action particularly in terms of its long term consequences often requires being able to find common ground with those who might find the action disagreeable or not in their interest.

CONCLUSION As conclusion, students will exposed to ethic issues and its relationship to teaching. Come to the situation given at first, that students are given multiple steps to overcome his problem due to his homosexual problem which is Moral awareness, Moral judgment and Acting in accordance with moral judgment. With this steps, hope that students could reveal his true identity as a man and not as a woman. As a hope in the future, this method still can be used to overcome this kind of problem in some other time.