We know that a teacher’s first moral obligation is to provide excellent instruction but, when we teach a
Professional Ethics Course our purposes are to develop student teachers professional and moral
responsibilities, to build up the commitment and the passion for the teaching profession.
We used during the seminars and experiential activities two main debate teaching methods: Study case
and Ethical dilemma. The Ethical Dilemma like a reflective and critical thinking teaching technique,
based on a personal adaptation of the George Lind structure and take into account that a dilemma, in
general, is that disjunctive-hypothetical reasoning type of argument. For the Focus Group we prepare a
list of 6-7 items starting from the debates from the previous learning activities.
We have used the same designing learning model for all our Focus group and reflective classes on the
topic of Teaching Professional Ethics - Professional Ethics vs Professional Moral. There is a
Reflective learning schema elaborated by Smyth and his collaborators in 1991, for Critical Thinking
Reading and Writing activities.