Huron students participate in program outlining respectful conduct
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HURON – Practices of how to determine right from wrong were illustrated through discussions, lessons and activities to approximately 170 senior students, as an educational experience focused on the importance of what it means to be ethical took place on Tuesday morning at Huron High School.
Junior Achievement (JA), a non-profit organization aiming to assist youth in working toward successful futures, hosted a program called “Excelling through Ethics,” which outlined ethical decision making in various scenarios and why they are important, not only in everyday life, but also in professional and work environments.
“This is the 11th year for Ethics in South Dakota,” said Tasha Lee, board member and Ethics Co-ordinator. “Last year over 9,300 students were taught ethics, it took 500 volunteers to teach it and that was in 32 different communities.”
Students were given the opportunity to participate in the program, which was split into nine different classes with local business leaders, who taught the curriculum prepared by JA, while also sharing their personal experiences and encouraging conversation on how specific situations should be handled.
The nine instructors that volunteered to present the lessons included Tom Glanzer, Dawn Mutchelknaus, Ryan Maxted, Lisa Snedecker, Kim Rieger, Ted Haeder, Rachel Haigh-Blume, Bryan Van Scharrel and Jill Luque, who were each assigned a separate classroom of students also accompanied by their teachers.
“It’s nice to have the interactive activities, which gets the kids up and moving, it gets them a little bit more engaged, they have more freedom to talk and express their feelings. So you roll with that as the framework and I let the discussion carry them,” said Van Scharrel. “What’s really fun is when you get them discussing amongst themselves whether something is right or wrong and the different reasons why it could be or not.”
Included in the program was a worksheet that showed different scenarios where the student attendees gathered into groups and rated the various situations from one to ten, one being ethical and ten being unethical. The groups shared their outcomes with the class and discussed why they felt a certain way about the examples given.