1. When you think of some of your favorite teachers, can you recall in any ways you would say they exhibited ethical habits or principles?
2. What would you say is the greatest ethical obligation of a teacher? Do these situations really involve ethics? Do they involve unfairness or a breach of ethical standards?
3. Are there complexities that cause ethical conflicts? If so, what are they?
4. What are the consequences of various courses of action?
5. Who needs to be considered as you try to decide on courses of action?
6. What, specifically, would you say or do?
7. Is the freedom of expression limitless? Can a teacher say anything or teach anything, claiming it is his or her right to free expression?
8. To what degree do you think that you, as a potential teacher, should have the right to select your own course materials or to provide information to students?
9. Are there any instances that you think a teacher's freedom of expression should be limited?
10. To what degree do you believe that a teacher's personal life truly private? Should what the teacher does on his or her own time always be protected by the law?
11. Is the teacher completely free to live his or her life in whatever way he or she decides?
12. Do you believe that the textbooks you used as a student, or that you have seen in your fieldwork, promote secular humanism? What can you do, as a teacher, if your assigned curriculum materials do seem to you to promote or denigrate a particular religious viewpoint?
13. Do you believe that controversies about religion in the schools will have a chilling effect on your own willingness as a teacher to have students read religious literature or study the contributions of religions?
14. If school authorities hear rumors that there are drugs in students' lockers, do you believe it is correct for them to search students' lockers without their permission?
15. When you think of some of your favorite teachers, can you recall in any ways you would say they exhibited ethical habits or principles?
16. What would you say is the greatest ethical obligation of a teacher?