Although he has no formal curriculum for the course, Sabbeth is completing a manual, which he plans to publish, on how parents can talk to children about values, morality, ethical principles, and justice. Now, he has settled into teaching every week in John Mollicones fifth grade class at Cherry Hills. Starting with his childs first grade class at Cherry Hills Village Elementary School, outside of Denver, Colorado, Sabbeth followed his three children through the grade levels, teaching the course in each of their classes. I wanted to honor the skills and dedication of the doctors, nurses, and technicians who took care of me, and of those who created the artificial heart valve." Now, his ethics course is "like a coral reef it keeps growing.Īfter proposing the idea to his childs teacher, and meeting with the principal and school psychologist, Sabbeth began teaching his course in February 1990. I became more introspective after my heart surgery," Sabbeth told Education World. Thirteen years ago, while recovering from surgery to implant an artificial heart valve, Sabbeth mentally mapped-out a course to help young people look more critically at the choices they face, analyze the consequences of those choices, and then make the right choice. Included: Examples of the kinds of situations students discuss in the course.Īttorney Michael Sabbeth calls teaching an ethics course to elementary school students paying his cosmic debt. That's why Colorado attorney Michael Sabbeth is teaching an ethics framework to fifth graders - to arm them with the confidence to make correct moral decisions. What should the friend do? Some elementary-aged students already have faced that kind of decision - and the choices only get tougher as they get older. A student tells a close friend that she plans to commit suicide - and says that she trusts her friend not to tell anyone else.
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