TWI is passionate about providing educators at all levels useful and effective ethics-related tools to help them create classroom opportunites that give their students the awareness and skills for being more ethical decision makers. We are convinced that when students are given the means to think in ethical terms-when they are given the tools to think beyond themselves to the impact of their decisions on their relationships-this will create meaningful and lasting change in behavior.
The teaching resources we are developing are real-world. They are used by educators, and were developed by educators. In fact, our coming teachers ethics forum will provide educators with the means to assist one another in dealing with the challenges that teachers face when attempting to offer meaning ethical discourse in the classroom. This community of support should be a useful and meaningful way to help build ethics in education.
TWI's annual high school ethics essay contest is a fantastic means for encouraging ethical reasoning and generating ethical discussion in the classroom. The essay contest pages will offer information about each year's contest and offer ways to encourage classroom discussion using the year's contest topic.
Students at all academic levels will be given age appropriate resources that teachers can use or reference for classroom discussion. Coming soon
TWI's character education programs have proven to be useful in encouraging meaningful interaction about ethical issues for youth and adults.