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What is the LITTLE Online Course?
The LITTLE Online course for teachers in methodologies related to Ethical Education is designed to build the capacity of teachers in active teaching and learning methodologies. The course is framed under Ethical Education and will be relevant to teachers of this subject and related subjects. Access to the course is free; but users are required to register for an account before they can gain access to each module.
Module 1 - Introduction to Ethical Education
Module 1 provides:
- An overview of the six modules of the LITTLE Course
- Guidance on creating on classroom climate conductive to Ethical Education
- A definition of Ethical Education
Before Starting - Make sure you have clicked the Enrol me in this course under Course Administration so that your certificates generate.
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Module 2 - Critical & Creative Thinking
This module will:
- Explore methodologies that support critical thinking
- Look at how to use Socratic Dialogue in the classroom
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Module 3 - Ethical Decision Making and Ethical Dilemmas
This module provides:
- An overview of decision making when faced with ethical dilemmas
- A look at ethical dilemmas in a theoretical sense
- An introduction to strategies and scenarios that encourage critical thinking
- Methodologies that can be used in the classroom
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Module 4 - Holistic & Biographical Learning
This module will:
- Look at the key characteristics of holistic and biographical learning
- Look at educational tools, materials and methodological tools to use these approaches in the classroom
- Instruct how to use a Gestalt approach to teaching Ethical Education
- Help you to construct your own lesson materials and plans using holistic and biographical learning
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- Look at the key characteristics of holistic and biographical learning
Module 5 - Managing Conflict & Facilitating Dialogue on Controversial Issues
This module will:
- Develop your skills and confidence in discussing potentially contentious or controversial issues with students in class
- Facilitate safe and respectful discussions of controversial issues with students in your classroom
- Prepare you to use a range of teaching methodologies and strategies to help facilitate respectful discussion and debate
- Enable you to apply a number of strategies to help develop students’ listening and communication skills
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- Develop your skills and confidence in discussing potentially contentious or controversial issues with students in class
Module 6 - The Ethics of Care
This module will:
- Inform you about how the ethics of care applies to education
- Prepare you to understand the essence of teaching as an ethical enterprise
- Enable you to enact an ethics of care in your teaching using relational postures
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Certificate of Completion
Congratulations! You have completed all modules in the Methodologies for Ethical Education Course. We hope that you will continue to use these methods in your teaching.
You may now download your certificate of completion - well done!
The LITTLE GUIDE For Teachers of Ethical Education
The LITTLE Guide for Teachers of Ethical Education is aimed at teachers and other educators. It was developed out of the Little - Learn Together to Live Together Project. The Guidelines build on the LITTLE online course available elsewhere on this site. While the online course provides support on methodologies for Ethical Education the guide is focused more specifically on gaining knowledge, skills and capabilities related to active learning or active classroom approaches in combination with co-created teaching.
To go directly to the website of the LITTLE project click here.