Day 4: Work Ethic and Integrity: Document the Decision

Daily Learning Contract

• Topic: Professional Character
• Objective: Students will identify work ethic, integrity, dedication, and perseverance in four fictional workplace decisions and connect one trait to prior class evidence.
• TEKS: d(4)(F)
• Demonstration of Learning: Five selected-response practice checks plus one justified workplace decision and personal class-artifact evidence audit.

Lesson Overview

Before Class

Provide one device per student; no grouping or employment history is required. The four cases, six-item Quiz, and supplied Day 2 class-artifact model are ready. Print one paper fallback only for each no-device or enlarged-route student. Ask students to open Entry 4 of the CCE Six-Weeks Evidence Log from their CCE binder or teacher-designated digital folder. Q6 is the exit, so collect one Quiz or one packet without a second response.

Warm-Up (5 min)

Define the difference between doing hard work and doing trustworthy work. A person can work quickly and still lack integrity if they hide a skipped check.

Activity 1: Four Traits (8 min)

• Work ethic: reliable effort and responsibility.
• Integrity: honest action and records, including when no one is watching.
• Dedication: sustained commitment to quality and purpose.
• Perseverance: continuing through a challenge while still following safety and quality boundaries.

Perseverance never means continuing an unsafe task without authorization.

Activity 2: Four Fictional Cases (15 min)

Students respond to bounded cases involving a missed checklist item, an uncertain measurement, an incomplete handoff, and pressure to sign work that was not verified. The Quiz gives immediate feedback on five decisions, including dedication and work ethic. In the final response, each student chooses one case and names the trait, trustworthy action, record or supervisor route, and harm prevented.

The cases do not teach tool settings, real repair procedures, clinical advice, or aviation maintenance procedures.

Practice Feedback (10 min)

Complete the five selected-response checks and repair any trait, safety, or record misconception.

Activity 3 and Exit: Personal Evidence Audit (12 min)

Students select one prior class artifact and complete a short private evidence audit in Canvas or on the paper fallback:

1. the task they completed;
2. one visible action that demonstrates a trait;
3. one honest limitation or revision still needed; and
4. one next action.

Use the final 3 minutes of this 12-minute block to complete Evidence Log Entry 4 from the Personal Evidence Audit already open. Students copy short phrases for artifact or task, transferable skill, visible action, revision or recovery move, and next step. This replaces optional H&L browsing; it does not replace Q6.

The log stays in the student's CCE binder or teacher-designated digital folder. It is not collected, uploaded, graded, or resubmitted. If the log is missing, students record the five short phrases in their CCE notebook or teacher-designated digital folder and transfer them later. They do not reconstruct earlier work.

The final Quiz response combines the justified case decision and personal evidence audit. It is the exit check; do not collect a second copy.

Monitoring and Supports

• Minute 12: students distinguish integrity from perseverance. If more than one-third choose persistence without the safety boundary, repair Case 4 together.
• Minute 30: the five feedback checks are complete. Minute 42: Q6 names the trait, action, record or handoff, harm prevented, visible artifact action, and honest revision. Minute 47: students transfer the five already-written phrases to Entry 4.

• Safe trim: analyze two cases instead of four, but protect all five checks, Q6, and the Entry 4 transfer.

• “Tell the truth” is a start; full evidence names the specific honest action and record route.

• Accept a school activity as personal evidence. Students do not need employment history.
• Provide sentence frames and allow private typed, dictated, annotated, or paper responses.
• Absence route is fully independent and uses fictional information only.