Ethical Thinking Rubric Category Emerging Developing Proficient Exemplary 1 2 3 4 Responsibility Recognizes Recognizes Recognizes Recognizes responsible personal responsible personal responsible personal responsible personal behavior but is behavior but has behavior and behavior and clearly unable to explain its difficulty expressing expresses its expresses its importance. its importance. importance importance Civic Lacks an Articulates some Articulates some Articulates an understanding of the understanding of the understanding of the understanding of the Engagement role of being a role of being a responsibilities of responsibilities of productive member of a being a member of a being a productive community member community but has community and member and leader and does not identify difficulty identifying identifies the skills of a community and the skills necessary the skills necessary necessary to function clearly identifies the to function as one. to function as one. as one. skills necessary to function as one. Identification Does not identify a Identifies a social Identifies and Identifies and social policy issue. policy issue but has evaluates a social evaluates the difficulty policy issue and importance of understanding the explains the participating in importance of importance of solving a social addressing that addressing that issue problem and clearly issue. articulates the impact of individual actions on policy.
Category Emerging 1 Developing 2 Proficient 3 Exemplary 4 Responsibility Recognizes responsible personal behavior but is unable to explain its importance. Recognizes responsible personal behavior but has difficulty expressing its importance. Recognizes responsible personal behavior and expresses its importance Recognizes responsible personal behavior and clearly expresses its importance Civic Engagement Lacks an understanding of the role of being a productive community member and does not identify the skills necessary to function as one. Articulates some understanding of the role of being a member of a community but has difficulty identifying the skills necessary to function as one. Articulates some understanding of the responsibilities of being a member of a community and identifies the skills necessary to function as one. Articulates an understanding of the responsibilities of being a productive member and leader of a community and clearly identifies the skills necessary to function as one. Identification Does not identify a social policy issue. Identifies a social policy issue but has difficulty understanding the importance of addressing that issue. Identifies and evaluates a social policy issue and explains the importance of addressing that issue Identifies and evaluates the importance of participating in solving a social problem and clearly articulates the impact of individual actions on policy. Ethical Thinking Rubric
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