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Ethical Leadership: Facilitator's Guide
Ethical Leadership: Facilitator's Guide
Ethical
Leadership
Facilitator’s Guide
Copyright, National PTA, 2009
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
1. Viewed the current National PTA mission and purposes; vision; values; National PTA
Basic Policies; and a generic PTA "Code of Ethics."
2. Explored ethical dilemmas that might present in their involvement with PTA using the
"case study" method and identified an ethical course of action in each.
The following discussion is to help you, the Facilitator, understand the broad context of this
course and its overall conceptual framework.
The concept behind the creation of this course was "To prevent people from doing something
stupid." While preventing all possible forms of stupidity is obviously beyond the scope of this
or any course, this course attempts to help PTA officers and members avoid doing anything
that would get them into legal trouble, or impair pursuit of the PTA Mission and Purposes.
This course breaks into two parts and has the following "flow:"
There is no substitute for actually setting up and practicing with this material, no matter how
experienced a Facilitator you are. If you skimp on preparation, you will cheat your
participants and make yourself, your local and state units, and the National PTA look bad.
Take the time to prepare to teach this class by thoroughly familiarizing yourself with this
facilitator’s guide, the participant manual, the Ethical Leadership Presentation, and the case
studies including the case study outcomes.
To make the course fit the 60-minute time frame you will cover only
two of the seven case studies found in the E-Learning version of the
course. Encourage the participants to complete the E-Learning
version of the course when they get home. This way they will cover
the remaining five cases, as well as qualify to receive a course
Certificate of Completion.
To make the course fit the 60-minute time frame you will need to
decide how to summarize each slide in your own words. A number of
the slides in the front part of the course are "text intensive" as they
are intended to present the participant with what are the actual PTA
policies, bylaws, mission and purposes, etc. The participants receive
a copy of the slides in their Participant’s Guide so it is neither
necessary nor desirable for you to read these slides to them.
Encourage them to read over the materials after class, and to go to
the E-Learning section of www.pta.org to take the course, chase
down all the hyperlinks to review source materials, and carefully
reflect on the content presented.
Arrive early at the training site to familiarize yourself with the site,
and all the equipment. Check to make sure the equipment is working
correctly.
ETHICAL Unlike some other training programs with which you may be familiar,
LEADERSHIP the visual aid for this program is a standalone file. Simply download
PRESENTATION this file from the TCBI Wiki to somewhere you can easily locate it like
your computer’s desktop, just as you would a PowerPoint file.
It will look just like the E-Learning version of the course. In fact, it is
essentially the E-Learning version of the course, only repurposed for
use as a teaching aid in this course. There are three advantages to
developing the course this way:
• Allows rapid development
• Synchronizes the content with the E-Learning
• Allows retention of animations, hyperlinks, and other course
features that would be either very time-consuming or
impossible to recreate using a conventional PowerPoint
presentation
The quickest way to tell whether or not you have Flash installed on
the computer you’ll be using for the presentation is after you have
downloaded the Ethical Leadership Presentation file to that
computer, double-click it to start it running. If Flash is installed, it will
run OK. If Flash is not installed, you will get a warning that looks
something like:
http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/?promoid=BUIGP
While the Ethical Leadership Presentation will still work (sort of)
without Flash, the animated sequences contained in it will not, and
the presentation’s performance may be erratic.
http://get.adobe.com/reader/?promoid=BUIGO
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/suites/default.aspx
SECRET In addition to navigating through the Ethical Leadership Presentation
SHORTCUTS using mouse clicks, some "secret" keystroke "shortcuts" have been
built in as shown below.
These give you, the Facilitator, extra control of what slide you are
going to jump to after the slide you are currently viewing.
The Course Map lets you navigate to any main slide in the course.
To make the course map appear, either click the course map button
at the bottom of most slides, or press the key combination CTL+M.
The Course Map is provided for the convenience of the Facilitator,
and is not included in the Participant’s Manual.
HYPERLINKS Hyperlinks appear throughout the Ethical Leadership Presentation.
You may click on links as they appear and the page to which they
are linked will open in a new window. Close or minimize the new
window to continue with the presentation.
WELCOME Welcome the participants to the course by reading the full course
title and subtitle on Slide1.
EXPLAIN Tell the participants that you are proud to present this workshop on
behalf of your State and National PTA.
THANK Thank the participants for volunteering for PTA, for coming to the
workshop, and for giving you the opportunity to offer it to them.
INTRODUCE Introduce yourself. Tell the participants your role in PTA.
DISTRIBUTE Pass out the Participant’s Manual at the beginning of the class as
the participants will likely want to have copies of the slides in front of
them to read and take notes as the class progresses.
A student may ask "If this course is online, why am I taking it here
instead of just going online when I get home." There are a variety of
reasonable answers to this question, one of them being "Because
the sponsors wanted to use this occasion as a way to publicize the
course and give all of you the opportunity to experience it in a group
setting."
EXPLAIN Describe in your own words that the foundational premise of this
course is that Ethics addresses the question "What Ought To Be
Done?"
CLICK Click a name, read the quote. You could build class participation by
asking "Who do we want to do first?" then clicking that name, and so
on instead of taking the quotes in top-to-bottom order.
Clearly we had to narrow it down. The quotes chosen for this slide
were ones that supported the conceptual framework of this E-
Learning program which is "Ethics deals with the question ‘What
These particular sources were chosen solely because they fell out of
the above described search. No preference toward these sources, or
against any other source is either implied or intended.
SLIDE
Note: This slide is essentially just some visual humor, inserted to let
the course "breathe" a little. Let the animation run for a few seconds
and in your own words say something like "OK, now let’s learn some
ways to avoid the potholes."
EXPLAIN in your
own words.
Buddhism Taoism
Treat not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful. Regard your neighbour's gain as your own gain
The Buddha, Udana-Varga 5.18 and your neighbour's loss as your own loss.
Lao Tzu, T'ai Shang Kan Ying P'ien, 213-218
Christianity
In everything, do to others as you would have them do to you; Unitarianism
for this is the law and the prophets. We affirm and promote respect for the interdependent web
Jesus of Nazareth, Matthew 7:12 of all existence of which we are a part.
Unitarian principle
Confucianism
One word which sums up the basis of all good conduct....loving- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
kindness. Do not do to others what you do not want done to yourself. All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.
Confucius, Analects 15.23 They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act
towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
Global Ethic United Nations General Assembly
The Declaration Toward a Global Ethic from the Parliament of the
World’s Religions (1993) proclaimed the Golden Rule Wicca
(both in negative and positive form) An it harm no one, do what thou wilt
as the common principle for many religions. The Wiccan Rede
EXPLAIN The idea of a "triple filter," "three-way test," etc. has been around a
long time. It is used here as a rule of thumb to be applied to making
a decision to determine whether or not it is ethical within the PTA
context. The idea being if an action is legal, follows PTA Policies,
and advances PTA’s Mission and Purposes, we can have a high
degree of confidence that the action will one that can be considered
ethical within the PTA context.
EXPLAIN in your
own words.
Joke (optional): "This course is neither a lawyer, nor does it play one
on television"
EXPLAIN in your
own words.
"The Second
Filter"
SLIDE
EXPLAIN in your
own words.
Note: These are the actual National PTA Basic policies from the
actual National PTA Bylaws, Article III.
EXPLAIN in your
own words.
EXPLAIN in your
own words.
While the National PTA does not have an "official" code of ethics, a
number of state and local PTAs do.
Adapted from:
http://www.wisconsinpta.org/pages/Codeofethics.cfm
EXPLAIN in your
own words.
SLIDE
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own words.
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own words.
SLIDE
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own words.
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own words.
SLIDE
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own words.
CASE STUDY This is the case study "dashboard." You can navigate to either of the
NOTES two case studies on the top row. The others are "grayed out" and are
included just to show the titles of the cases that are covered in the
online version of this course.
You may process the two case studies on the top row in any order
you choose.
It is highly unlikely that you will have time to chase down each
outcome for each case. That is why you should distribute the Case
Study Outcomes handout after working the two cases.
This slide IS
reproduced in the
Participant’s
Manual
SLIDE
This is the
recommended
response.
SLIDE
This slide IS
reproduced in the
Participant’s
Manual
This is the
recommended
response.
Note: This case is the only case with a "surprise" follow-on to the
selected answer. It has been included:
• To "break the pattern" and lend a little variety and interest to the
course
• To reinforce that sometimes doing the right thing does have a
little extra reward
SLIDE
EXPLAIN in your
own words.
EXPLAIN in your
own words.
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own words.
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