The Character Education Handbook: Establishing a Character Program in Your School |
Contents
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The First Meetings | 41 |
Choosing Your Teaching Approach | 55 |
Developing Student Advocates | 67 |
Cultivating Parent Support | 79 |
Involving the Community | 85 |
Building Excitement at Your Sch | 93 |
Finding Financial and Other Su | 103 |
Measuring the Effect of Character Education | 109 |
Improving the Program | 119 |
Optimizing Committee Dynamics | 129 |
Post Script | 149 |
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Page 17 - The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith...
Page 19 - Character" must be comprehensively defined to include thinking, feeling, and behavior. 3. Effective character education requires an intentional, proactive, and comprehensive approach that promotes the core values in all phases of school life. 4. The school must be a caring community. 5. To develop character, students need opportunities for moral action. 6. Effective character education includes a meaningful and challenging academic curriculum that respects all learners and helps them succeed. 7....
Page 19 - Evaluation of character education should assess the character of the school, the school staff's functioning as character educators, and the extent to which students manifest good character. 131 Alternative programs proliferated with the advent of "natural highs