ECE 207, NAEYC Code of Ethical Conduct Quiz

To work to ensure that appropriate assessment systems, which include multiple sources of information, are used for purposes that benefit children.

We shall communicate openly and truthfully about the nature and extent of services that we provide.

To provide the community with high-quality early childhood care and education programs and services.

To work through education, research, and advocacy toward a society in which all young children have access to high-quality early care and education programs.

To establish and maintain relationships of respect, trust, confidentiality, collaboration, and cooperation with co-workers

To accord co-workers due recognition of professional achievement.

To establish and maintain relationships of respect, trust, confidentiality, collaboration, and cooperation with co-workers

To share resources with co-workers, collaborating to ensure that the best possible early childhood care and education program is provided.

To be familiar with the knowledge base of early childhood care and education and to stay informed through continuing education and training

To ensure that each child’s culture, language,ethnicity, and family structure are recognized and valued in the program.

To recognize and respect the unique qualities,abilities, and potential of each child.

To recognize and respect the unique qualities,abilities, and potential of each child.

We shall use appropriate assessment systems,which include multiple sources of information, to provide information on children’s learning and development.

When another person tells us of his or her suspicion that a child is being abused or neglected, we shall assist that person in taking appropriate action in order to protect the child.

We shall use appropriate assessment systems, which include multiple sources of information, to provide information on children’s learning and development.

Above all, we shall not harm children. We shall not participate in practices that are emotionally damaging, physically harmful, disrespectful, degrading, dangerous, exploitative, or intimidating to children. 

We shall communicate openly and truthfully about the nature and extent of services that we provide.

When a program violates or requires its employees to violate this Code, it is permissible, after fair assessment of the evidence, to disclose the identity of that program.

We shall be objective and accurate in reporting the knowledge upon which we base our program practices

We shall apply for, accept, and work in positions for which we are personally well-suited and professionally qualified. We shall not offer services that we do not have the competence, qualifications, or resources to provide.

An absolute truth.

People's’ views of what is good, right, and proper; their beliefs about their obligations; and their ideas about how they should behave.

That true wisdom comes from knowing nothing.

The rules you abide by in order to remain within a community or profession.

Behavior that one must or must not engage in. 

Making sure program funds to cover the cost of socially responsible programs.

Being respectful to others.

Being fair at all times.

When values conflict.

When children argue over materials or space.

An irresolvable situation.

A moral conflict that involves determining appropriate conduct when an individual faces conflicting professional values and responsibilities.

Having superiority over another person or group of people.

The moral commitments of profession that involve moral reflection that extends and enhances the personal morality practitioners bring to their work, that concern actions of right and wrong in the workplace, and that help individuals resolve moral dilemmas they encounter in their work.

Commitments held by a profession that are consciously and knowingly embraced by its practitioners because they make a contribution to society. There is a difference between personal values and the core values of a profession

The study of right and wrong, or duty and obligation, that involves critical reflection on morality and the ability to make choices between values and the examination of the moral dimensions of relationships.

A moral conflict that involves determining appropriate conduct when an individual faces conflicting professional values and responsibilities.

Defines the core values of the field and provides guidance for what professionals should do when they encounter conflicting obligations or responsibilities in their work.

People's’ views of what is good, right, andproper; their beliefs about their obligations; and their ideas about how they should behave.

The moral commitments of a profession that involve moral reflection that extends and enhances the personal morality practitioners bring to their work, that concern actions of right and wrong in the workplace, and that help individuals resolve moral dilemmas they encounter in their work.