Reflection on Ethics

(1) Definition or description of what ethics means?
- Ethics is what determines if an act or thought is right and wrong. Ethics usually vary from person to person depending on the person's culture, religion, background or race.

(2) How ethics will affect your work as a teacher with your students and your colleagues?
- In American school systems a set of ethics are usually set for the faculty and students. These ethics mostly relate to rules that are to be followed during school and are located in the handbook. There are also other ethics that are not covered by the handbook, which will have to be dealt with when they come around.

(3) Pros and cons of being concerned with ethics?
- The pros of being concerned with ethics is that our character is a representation of what we do in our everyday lives and so by being concerned with ethics we are improving our character.
- The cons of being concerned with ethics is that it naturally make life a little more difficult for those people. It is difficult to have good character and those who do not care take the easy way out and some of the time do not have the best character. So, by caring about ethics we have to invest a little more time and effort to become people with good character.