Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Ethics in My Life
Everyday we make choices based on our own ethics and morals. An example of when my ethics were compromised was in high school, working on a group project. One of the group members didn't make any input on the project at all. When they did say something, it was usually a stupid joke or rude comment about someone. Most of the time, we tried to ignore him, but it was very hard. When we presented the project, he didn't participate at all. No one in our group knew what to do, but fortunately our teacher handed out worksheets to grade our group and other groups. We finally got to tell the teacher what was happening.
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That is great that you told the teacher the truth about the bad egg in your group! I was in the same situation, but because I was brand new to the school, I let it slide and said that everyone contributed equally to the assignment. I look back with regret because I was never friends with the lazy kid in my group so I don't know why I lied for him. I know now to privately email my teacher and be honest about the group and their work ethics. Honesty is the best policy after all!
ReplyDeleteGroup projects never seem to work out the way they are supposed to, there's always that one person who's just along for the ride. One of my teacher's in high school had a system of making sure everyone put in effort and it always helped. the one's that didn't do anything didn't get the full grade and he made sure he asked each person individually what they did for the project and who didn't do anything. It was so much easier than having to rely on everyone to have the same work ethic when in reality most kids just don't care.
ReplyDeleteI had an issue like that here in my first semester of college. Teachers should really know group projects aren't a good idea. Either someone is not going to want to do anything, or one person is too anal and they want to do everything or you don't trust your group members to do their best. But in one of my classes fall semester last year it was a group of four and one kid never came to any of the group meetings and didn't do any research we told him to. I never really like to "tattle" so I just said I would do his work, but my group members chose to talk to the teacher and he ended up getting a bad grade and we didn't. I'm glad they told the teacher because I didn't want to do extra work.
ReplyDeleteYou should have told your teacher before hand. It may look like snitching but it helps everyone in the long run because then the teacher can issue the person a warning and maybe he'll start working. Then he'll get some credit for the project and you have more help, or he'll continue to not work and it's the same end result you had.
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