Dilemma 2

teacher

you have a student who is from a single parent family. The student must work to attend college. However, the job is interfering with the student's performance and several assignments have not been turned in. You have determined that a "D" is all the student can make when a counselor informs you the student need "C" to qualify for an academic scholarship.

what do you do ?

As a teacher, I have to be fair to all my students. That would my primary motivation. However, the mentioned scenario can referred to as a dilemma. This dilemma is centered on the situation of giving the student an extra chance would conflict with being fair and unbiased to the rest of the class, and vice versa. However, there is a possible way that can overwhelm this problem. As a teacher, I would offer an ‘optional’ extra credit to all the students. This extra credit can be homework or a paper. Not all students are obligated to perform this task, while on the other hand, the student that needs the grade of C can finish it and therefore avoid jeopardizing his/her scholarship. At the same time, that ‘extra chance’ was provided to everyone else in the class, not specifically to that one student who needed it. The moral basis of this decision was the desire to be helpful to all my students and, at the same time, to be ‘equally’ supporting. Situations such as this dilemma are very difficult to cope with and simultaneously keeping some standards constant. Nevertheless, one of my duties as I teacher is to talk to student individually to go over the problem in deep details so that I make sure this never happens again wether in my class or other classes. I will try to plant values such as discipline, honesty and hard work. In my opinion, the previous point is more important than the original issue. Solving the origins of the problem will be more effective than solving the problem itself.

 

 

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