Grade: Second Year
Subject: Ethics and Law
Title-
Law and information, ethics and moral, tolerance, social problems.
 
Background-
1. Culture of tolerance.
2. Social problems in modern Cambodia.
3. Ethics and Moral.
4. Law.
5. Human Rights.
6. Freedom of Press.
7. Cambodian law (National Constitution).
8. Journalism and law.
 


Expected Outcome Of This Lesson Plan-
1. Create reflexion over real modern problems in the Cambodian society.
2. Develop an ethic conscience in the students.
3. Write a book on ethics and journalism in Khmer language.
 
Teacher Objectives-
1. Students must develop a conscience of tolerance and respect for others.
2. Students must know very well the basics of international and national laws and analyze contradictions and lights of them.
 
Resources-
1. Websites and books related to ethics, moral, tolerance, social problems.

2. Researches over ethic problems and proposals to improve it.
 
Teaching Methods-

1. Lesson Introduction-

Agents of information, communication and journalists must have a deep conscience of the principle of ethics. They must be for example tolerant people able to respect and understand other social groups or ways of thinking different to them. In Cambodia, with a big crisis of ethics by administrative corruption as a norm, it is difficult to develop an ethic conscience. Children and young people, especially, should be educated in what is right and wrong when we live in society.
 

2. Lesson Progression-

1. Exposition of real social problems that involve ethics in modern Cambodia.
2. The students will know cases that face their own culture and principles, for example, accepting persons from other races, nations, languages, sexual options and religions. The students must discuss over if those persons are good or not and why it is thought they are good or not. Students must do options in class like electing between males and females for government positions, making business relations with persons from other races and nations, etc.
3. Forums about linguistic problems in Cambodia, for example, how to teach Khmer language to foreigners, the importance that foreigners learn Khmer language...
 

3. Guided Practice-

1. The students will study the life of persons who have been important in history and belong to groups that have been victim of discrimination (black people, Jews, women, gays, religious leaders different to the Cambodian official religion, etc.)
2. Students must do an interview from persons belonging to groups that are traditionally marginalized in Cambodia.
3. Students must do their own research over practices of discrimination in their societies.
 

4. Student Practice-

Documentaries like videos or blogs in Khmer language over ethic formation, especially to be thought in schools.
 

5. Learner Accommodations-

Using famous cases that can be traced through the Internet.
 

6. Assessment-

1. Forums.
2. Articles written by the students.
 

7. Lesson Closure-

1. The normal final exam at the end of the semester.
2. Presentation of any production from the students.
 
Measuring Student Progress-
1. Do we discriminate people?
2. Do I know the laws of my country and the international law?
 
 
 

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