KOHLBERG'S IDEAS AT WORK IN THE CLASSROOM

Level 2: Conventional

Good Boy/ Nice Girl Orientation

• Elementary school examples

1. A student stays after school to clean all the chalkboards for theteacher.
2. A fifth grade teacher asks her students to: "Please help me clean upthe mess from our science experiment so we can all get to recess on time!"

• High school examples

1. A middle school student agrees to throw out the gum she is chewing to please theteacher.
2. In an inner city high school student's journal, she wrote "I am going towork harder in school so I won't let you down because if you think I can make itthen I can make it" (Johnson, 1992).

What about the second stageof this level of Moral Development?