Character Building Activities for Kids: Ready-to-Use Character Education Lessons & Activities for the Elementary Grades

Character Building Activities for Kids: Ready-to-Use Character Education Lessons & Activities for the Elementary Grades Review

This straight-forward resource gives teachers, counselors, and parents over 140 common-sense lessons with reproducible activities for developing traits selected as representative of good character, such as honesty, generosity and fairness. This guide is organized into three sections focusing on respect for self, respect for others, and a positive outlook on life. Each lesson defines a specific character trait, shows children how to recognize the trait, and provides opportunities for children to apply the trait in their own daily lives.

Character Education with Chess

Character Education with Chess Review

This book is for parents, educators, and therapists. It presents psychological and mythological symbolism of chess and its pieces, drawing from Logotherapy ideas of Viktor Frankl, the works of Rumi, Joseph Campbell, Robert Bly and others, from which spring story-telling and conversations, to help young people clarify their values and build motivation for a meaningful life.

Educating Moral People: A Caring Alternative to Character Education

Educating Moral People: A Caring Alternative to Character Education Review

In this collection of essential essays, Nel Noddings examines alternatives to prevailing models of character education—a sympathetic approach based on an ethic of care. Covering both stories in the classroom and controversial issues in education, Noddings describes the similarities and differences between character education and care ethics...examines how moral education might be infused throughout the curriculum...and calls for greater cooperation across fields and more attention to the practical problems of everyday teaching.

Moral Education in America: Schools and the Shaping of Character Since Colonial Times (Reflective History Series)

Moral Education in America: Schools and the Shaping of Character Since Colonial Times (Reflective History Series) Review

A history of moral education in American schools. The author traces American traditions of moral education from the colonial era to the present, illuminating both debates about the subject and actual practices in public and private schools, colleges, and universities.