The document discusses the author's views on authority and ethics as a teacher. The author believes they need to establish order in the classroom as a "benign monarchy" where they are the sole authority over students. The author was taught from a young age in their Asian culture to respect elders and authority, which shapes their ethical views. The author believes their way of thinking is influenced by how they were raised and their culture. They plan to teach students the importance of respecting authority and elders based on the morals they learned growing up.

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Jeanie Tran
March 13, 2014
UF300
Ethics Paper
I think my moral compass does not need adjusting. As a teacher of 30 or more
impressionable young minds, I feel that I need to establish a sense of order and that my class is
not a democracy, but a benign monarchy. It will be a monarchy in that I will assert all
responsibility for my students and expect them to come to me with all needs academic. I am a
respected, fair, but firm, authority. To be a firm authority, rules are needed to be in place before
hand. To be fair in my authority, I will teach these young minds the rules, but also model them.
My ethical system revolves around respecting my elders. In my culture, as an Asian-
American, I was taught from very young age that respecting elders is something I have to do. For
this reason I will teach my students the virtue of respecting their elders, and then in return, they
will gain respect from their elders.
Based on the data from the survey, I am not presently surprised that my level of authority,
loyalty, harm, and fairness is above the score of liberal and conservative because my level of
thinking, perception and my lifelong journey as Asian-American has taught me a lot about
morals and the difference between right and wrong. "According to Platonism, there is a realm of
necessarily existing abstract objects do not originate with creative divine activity” (Carder, n.d.).
There are more than just material things in life and more to or how we treat each other as people;
it’s about being accountable to who we are and what we have.
Furthermore, my way of thinking is different than others because of the way I was raised
as a child and because of my Asian culture. I was taught to respect my elders, which gave the

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power to authority. I was also taught as a child the importance of working hard for what you
have and about always being kind and fair to others. The type of influence I had growing up will
always be a part of who I am. I have and always will continue to use the morals, that I learned
growing up, throughout my adult life and in my career as a teacher.

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Everyday Life Scale
Moral Foundations Questionnaire

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