Do the Right Thing - Character Building
Highlights: A Caring Classroom
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A Quality Teacher Is a Caring Teacher
Showing students you care about them helps create a positive relationship and a supportive learning environment. -
Find Out Who Your Students Are
Students today lead different lives. -
Calm, Cool, & Consistent
Teacher has students talk it out and come up their own solutions. -
Creating Community Connects Kids
Seven quick tips to help your students feel connected. -
Building Relationships with Students
Second grade teacher attributes her students' orderly behavior to the culture she creates through the positive relationships. -
Acts of Kindness
Students write about the good deeds of others.
Highlights: Character-Building Skills
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Social Skills Kids Need to Succeed
Why we should teach manners and etiquette in school. -
Six Character-Building Behaviors Students Should Learn
Specific behaviors educators can teach students. -
Author Aims to Help Children Manage Anger
We need to talk to children about anger being a normal emotion that can be good in that it is often a signal that something is wrong. -
Teaching Self-Control: A Curriculum for Responsible Behavior
Self-control skills all children need. -
Manners and Etiquette: Teaching Essential Ingredients for Success
Her etiquette program is structured to enhance self-esteem and character with emphasis on socially acceptable behavior. -
Let's Cooperate! -- Teachers Share Tips for Cooperative Learning
From forming groups to using rubrics, these ideas will make any lesson of a cooperative nature a little more fun. -
Students Learn Respect Thanks to Good Manners
Teaching respect and good manners through stories, poems, songs, games, biographies, lesson plans, and activities.
RELATED LINKS
A Caring Classroom- Seven Strategies for Building Positive Classrooms
- Helping Children with Manners
- 10 Dimensions of Good Teaching
- Caring Collaboration
Video by Harrison Elementary School (Omaha, Nebraska)
Learning Skills
- Why Champion Social and Emotional Learning?
- Time Management for Kids
- Are They Really Ready to Work? Employers' Perspectives
- Performance Values
Service Learning and Giving
- Earth Inc. - A Service-Learning Lesson Plan
- Is Community Service a Waste of Time?
- Pennies for Peace - Children and Philanthropy
- Service Learning Resources
- Serve.gov
Grants
Research
- Character Education (What Works Clearinghouse)
- Character Education Quality Standards
- The Report Card on the Ethics of American Youth
- Character Education
- Supporting African American Boys in School (pp. 5, 7)
- Early Learning Prevents Youth Violence (32pp)
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