NEW: It's For Real Workplace Ethics: Series III & IV

It's for Real Workplace Ethics Series III and IV are NEW in every way - new characters, new stories, new dilemmas, new activities, and new instructor's guides. Featuring five typical young employees who face ethical dilemmas in their part-time jobs, the lessons ask your classes to help Bela, Sabrina, Luke, Ethan, and Josh find solutions to their ethics concerns. Series III focuses on ethics of the employee while Series IV targets ethics of the employer and the company. In these 16 lessons, your students will learn in advance some of the troubling, difficult-to-handle situations that bosses and co-workers generate.

Click here for the It's for Real Series III & IV topics.

For a PDF sample of the paper version of It's for Real Series III, click here. You are welcome to print and make copies of this sample to use with your students. When printing the PDF, if your computer does not print the entire lesson within page margins, set the "Page Scaling" to "Fit to Printable Area" or "Shrink to Printable Area".

Click here to view Lesson 1 from the Series III CD version. You are welcome to send your students to this link to work through a full lesson on responsibility. Please note: because this sample opens in a web browser, you will see a scroll bar on the right. The CD version does not open in a web browser and does not require a scroll bar. To view full screens without scrolling, as installed with the CD, download the version below. Note that you will need administrator rights on your computer to install the software.

Click here to download and install a sample from the It's for Real Series III CD version. You are welcome to load the lesson on student computers or your server and try it out. Please note that this requires administrator rights on your computer and may require approval from your technology director.

 

Highlights of It's for Real Workplace Ethics III and IV

• The short story tells of an ethical dilemma encountered by one of the five young people.
• "The Boss’s Point of View" describes what a boss might think about each ethical situation.
• "Ask Chad " answers questions about ethical concerns related to a specific topic.
• Activities challenge students to consider other cases that involve the same ethical problem.

Topics

It’s for Real Series III focuses on ethics of the employee and covers the following topics in 16 lessons: responsibility, covering up, entitlement, theft, negligence, confidentiality, wasting time, integrity, customer discrimination, wasting time, honesty, overstepping authority, arrogance, dependability, work commitment, and drug concerns.

It’s for Real Series IV targets ethics of the employer and the company. In these 16 lessons, your students will learn in advance some of the troubling, difficult-to-handle situations that bosses and co-workers generate. Series IV includes topics such as: temper, safety violations, dishonesty, cheating the employees, favoritism, unsupportive boss, abusing confidentiality, schedule manipulation, uncooperaive co-workers, bullying, drug user, over-reacting boss, ignoring raise, sexual harassment, intimidation, and manipulation.

What You Get

• Paper - Each series includes 30 student copies. Each issue comes with it's own Instructor's Guide.
• CD - The interactive CD provides a fun and compelling look at real workplace ethics.  The narrated stories are the same as in the paper version.  Students may work individually or in groups on-screen.  ON/OFF narration and integrated activities address the needs of visual, auditory and kinesthetic learners.  Students type their answers on screen and print a hard copy for the teacher. 

Instructor's Guide with Every Issue

Each of the 32 Instructor's Guides contains three contextual learning activities, teaching suggestions, solutions, and transparency masters.  Activity 1 requires problem solving.  Activity 2 integrates job skills with English, math, science or social studies.  Activity 3 promotes cooperative learning, provides a challenge, and demands critical thinking.  Suggestions and recommendations for instructors include performance standards and a generic evaluation system.

Pricing Information

• Paper - $595 for each series.
• CD - Lifetime building site license; $695 for each series.