This book is for all types of learners and teachers at any grade level, K-12. The book is excellent for any classroom, including those addressing special education, differentiated instruction, and interactive learning, or where there’s active engagement and attention to varied perceptual preferences and learning differences. A classroom that optimizes student achievement through collaborative relationship building is given a good deal of attention with activities focusing on mindfulness and determination through persistence. The book’s premise is the classroom, for optimum learning, needs to be a place of comfort. Modeling/living the six international traits of a person of good character (caring, fair, responsible, trustworthy, respectful and good citizenship) is vital, especially in the educational setting. Practical strategies for character building and conversing with others are provided. Living by two ideas: No put downs, only lift ups for oneself and others, and realizing “being enough,” is exactly what you are.
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The book’s premise is the classroom, for optimum learning, needs to be a place of comfort. Practical strategies for character building and conversing with others are provided.
Foreword 1 Foreword 2 Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Section One 1.Character Education/Teaching: Character Development/Growth 2.Getting to Know You 3.What Are You Thinking? 4.She Had Cooties: A Bullying Incident Section Two 5. R-E-S-P-E-C-T Realizations about Teaching Character Development 6. Caring: Fair: Responsible 7. Good Citizen: Trustworthy 8. Your Turn: The Six International Traits of a Person of Good Character Section Three 9. Stressors That Impact Behaviors: When You’re Not Being the Best You 10. Eradicating Bullying by Joshua Schiering 11. How to Accept an Apology Empowering Victims and Educating Aggressors by Joshua Schiering 12. Character Education/Development Making Decisions 13. Role-play Scenarios for Enhancing Character Education’s Decision-making 14. Character Education Intervention by Angela Sullivan 15. Book Activity and Four Life Statements for Daily Living 16. Self-acceptance: I Am Enough: Two Stories for Character Development Afterward Appendixes Overview A: Reciprocal Thinking Skills Chart B: Books with Moral Messages C: Character Development Activities Sequence of Presentation D: Causes and Possible Prevention of Bullying, Harassment, Discrimination, and Prejudice E. Post-Character Development Workshop: Three Reflections References About the Author
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Being a person of good character, as well as the teacher serving as an important role model in that regard, is the underlining theme of this How-to-book.  Dr. Schiering clearly outlines the steps one needs to take to establish a highly effective Character Education program in the classroom, a school-wide program, or workplace.  In her guide she offers concrete step-by-step procedures for leading training workshops to accomplish this goal.  She begins by explaining how to build self-acceptance and respect for others and then offers many specific activities to promote a caring, fair, and responsible person who becomes a good citizen.  The book is also filled with anecdotes to further help the reader toward a better understanding of the ideas presented by the author. With an emphasis on creating more caring, responsible and fair-minded citizens, one cannot deny the timeliness of this book. 
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781475826838
Publisert
2017-08-17
Utgiver
Vendor
Rowman & Littlefield
Vekt
476 gr
Høyde
241 mm
Bredde
161 mm
Dybde
21 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
196

Biographical note

Marjorie S. Schiering a former elementary and middle school teacher has been a professor at Molloy College for the past eighteen years. Her career has continually been devoted to academic and social cognition, along with social justice. She’s a proponent of student engagement in learning, and simultaneously devoted to addressing/developing critical and creative thinking skills while adhering to the classroom being a comfort zone, because of everyone being a person of good character.