Virtues, Values, and the Very Best You

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Susanna Palomares & Dianne Schilling

Virtues, Values, and the Very Best You uses proven strategies that engage your students in meaningful interactions and self-reflection while teaching them the real-life benefit of “doing the right thing”. These Immediately usable and highly impactful activities naturally help you to draw out the best in students and inspire the development of universally valued character traits.

Unit themes include:

• Responsibility
• Justice and Fairness
• Caring
• Citizenship
• Moral Decision-making
• Service Learning

Here are the activities you need to keep kids engage while teaching such learnings as: The consequences of cheating and lying, How to develop healthy friendships, How to respond respectfully to others, The qualities and characteristics of our heroes and stars, The value in responsible behavior, How to accept responsibility and not blame others, Identifying justice and fairness in real life, Practicing tolerant behavior, Respecting individual differences, How rules and laws help people live and work together, How prejudice hurts both self and others, Demonstrating concrete caring behaviors, Recognizing and acknowledging positive attributes in self and others.

This book is a valuable and practical resource for classroom, counseling, and youth group instructors interested in enhancing character and virtue in their kids.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Trustworthiness

• How To Be Trustworthy
• Honesty
• Integrity
• Promise Keeping
• Loyalty
• The Big Lie
• You Can’t Win By Cheating
• The Importance of Trust
• Let’s Work Together
• Together Is Better
• Depending On Each Other
• I Depend On You—You Depend On Me

Respect

• Respect vs. Fear
• A Recipe for Respect
• Respected Friends
• Role-Play Respect
• Respecting Human Rights
• The Bill of Rights
• The Habits of Heroes
• Interview Form
• Hands of Respect
• The Web of Life
• Chief Seattle’s Poem
• Responsibility
• Committing to Responsible Behaviors
• Who’s Responsible?
• Our Everyday Heroes!
• Responsibility in Action
• Responsibility Log
• Goal Setting
• This Is My Goal
• The Blame Game

Justice and Fairness

• Liberty and Justice for All
• Dancing to Our Differences
• Creating Our Classroom Constitution
• Resolving Conflicts Fairly
• What Is Prejudice?

Caring

• Real People Who Care
• Albert Schweitzer, Reverence for Life
• A Caring Project
• My Caring Project
• Friendship Profile
• Giving and Receiving Praise
• Caring Is the Big Story
• The Kindness Book
• Caring and Kindness in the News
• The Link of Kindness

Citizenship

• The Rules of the Game
• The Trial
• Speak Up for What You Believe In
• A Classroom Campaign
• Debates and Voting

Reflections

• Sweet Revenge
• Current Events Research
• Being the Very Best Me
• A Game of Ethics
• Ethics Bingo
• Values Affect Decisions
• Situations
• What Would You Do?
• Decision Point!
• Dilemmas by the Dozen

Service Learning

• A School Service Project
• A Community Service Activity

Primary Subject Area – Character

Grade 3-9, 154 pages, 8-1/2 x 11, paperback