You are a student teacher fulfilling the practicum requirements for your teaching certification.

The Case:

You are a student teacher fulfilling the practicum requirements for your teaching certification. You have been placed at a middle school under the supervision of a PE teacher with 25 years experience. During your initial observations (for the first two weeks) you notice a trend in the way the teacher manages kids with disabilities. Each time an activity is introduced that is not suitable for those particular students, the teacher simply instructs the Education Assistants (the support staff that assist in the education and care of students with special needs) to “just go and do something else for a while!” When he was challenged by an EA regarding a certain activity during your first week of observation, the teacher quite certainly made it known that he is the teacher and that the EAs are “to do what I say!” Accordingly, the EAs do lead the kids with special needs toward other activities. However, you observe the EAs either allow their students to sit and watch the other students engaged in the activity or they engage in rudimentary physical activities that do not satisfy the lesson objectives and/or overall goals for physical education. After the initial observations you begin to lead the class instruction. You intend to include all students in the activities which you plan to modify as needed. Yet, each time you introduce a challenging activity (and the recommended modifications), your supervisor steps in and, again, directs the EAs to “go and do something else for a while!” He takes you aside after one of the classes and explains to you that “including those kids makes it much more difficult for the others to excel. They have to play down to the lowest common denominator rather than be challenged by their peers of equal ability. Besides, most of those kids with problems won’t be playing sports anyway! And if they get hurt … Well, then I have to deal with their parents who want little “Suzy” to be normal when it is clear that she is not!” 

Please explain why you would or would not choose each course of action for the situation stated above: *make sure to include 2-3 of the following ethical frameworks in your answers*

Consequence

Commitment

Character 

virtues of a teacher which include: respect, ethical leadership, empathy and care. 

Utilitarianism 

Deontology 

Inclusivity

Abdicate Responsibility to the Students and Follow the Directive of the Teacher 

Advocating for the students with disabilities and challenging the teachers methods. 

Modify activities for students with disabilities for the EAs to use in order to ensure they are engaged in the lesson objectives and overall goals for physical education. 

Sit down separately with either the PE teacher, the school principal, or the disabled students. 

Involve the parents of students with disabilities in the decision-making process. 

I know it is a bit of work, but please help me explain how the ethics are challenged for each of these courses of action. I will give a very good review.

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