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At which of Kohlberg's levels of moral development are the students in your class functioning? Cite specific evidence and explain your reasoning for selecting these levels. What did the teacher do, or what might be done, to help the students advance to higher levels with regard to the examples you supplied above? Be sure to underline the concept's vocabulary in your response.

I think that the students in the class I am observing are functioning at the Conventional Reasoning stage; Stage 3: Good boy/Good Girl. Just referring back to the example of the journal question on egocentrism that my cooperating teacher asked the class to engage in discussion about. I think the students that chose to not participate in the discussion were worried about saying something that would be disapproved or rejected by the rest of the class. It's also unknown as to whether or not the students who did choose to share actually shared what they initially wrote down or thought. There is the chance that, because of the stage these students are in, they just conformed to the expectations of others in order to fit in. They wanted to participate with the students in order to feel accepted. Something that my cooperating teacher does in class to ensure acceptance and belonging is having each student present something that makes them happy, and then after their presentations, the class will voluntarily say something that they like about what makes that student happy, etc. 

This type of behavior helps the students advance to higher levels with regard of class discussions by creating an accepting and comforting environment. If the students have those comfortable relationships from the start of each class, then they are more likely to express themselves and what they truly are thinking without having to worry about being rejected or disapproved by the rest of the class. The article about teens and sexting is a perfect example of this because it demonstrates how many teens will set their morals aside in order to feel accepted and "cool". The article says that, "20 percent of teenagers have taken nude or semi-nude pictures or videos of themselves and sent them to someone or posted them online." If the 20 percent of students who participate in sexting could fully understand the risks and severity of consequences of sending those pictures, they likely would not participate in those types of behaviors. But since they are in the Conventional Reasoning stage, they are more worried about fitting in and being accepted.

https://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/26/sexting-may-place-teens-at-legal-risk/?_r=0

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