Character Education

Introduction

CHARACTER EDUCATION:

RESPECT

OZ' - The 'Other' Side of the Rainbow: The Six Pillars of Character

"Character education is a learning process that enables students and adults in a school community to understand, care about and act on core ethical values such as respect, justice, civic virture and citizenship, and responsibility for self and others." This WebQuest will give an overview of The Six Pillars of Character Education with the emphasis on what Respect means to self and others.

We will play a game of peek-a-boo with the first letter of the six pillars words of chararacter.

CHARACTER COUNTS! | The Six Pillars of Character®

Let's go and learn about Respect so you can behave better at school and at home daily! You can improve! I am cheering for you!

Task

You will be tasked with telling us what respect means to you at school and at home.

The activities below will help you with the task.

You are going to visit another classroom and you will be entertained with a Respect Rap:. Respect Rap With Prologue

And NOW you will attend a Puppet Show:

Sesame Street: Henry Cavill & Elmo teach Respect to the Big Bad Wolf

I hope you enjoyed the Respect Rap video and the Puppet Show.

Process

There will be three roles:

1. The computer operator will operator the computer going from section to section.

2 The Group leader will conduct/lead activities.

3. The Inspector will make sure everyone is on task.

You can look at the Character Words on a Colorful Wheel as a review of the Six Pillars of Character Education:

https://charactercounts.org/cc-5-0/charactere

NOW, YOU WILL WATCH AND LISTEN TO SOME EXCITING VIDEOS TO HELP YOU PROCESS THE TASK AND GET READY FOR YOUR EVALUATION.

ALL ABOUT RESPECT! (song for kids about showing respect

Evaluation

Respect Worksheet One

R-E-S-P-E-C-T

What does "respect" mean to you. Mark each item agree or disagree. Then get together with a partner or small group and discuss your answers.

Agree Disagree

___    ___ 1. To get respect, you have to make other people afraid of
                     you.

___ ___ 2. If you're honest, people are more likely to respect you.

___ ___ 3. Being strong is not the same as being mean.

___ ___ 4. To respect an adult means to obey the adult without
question.

___ ___ 5. Listening to someone is a sign of respect.

___ ___ 6. If you tell your feelings, nobody will respect you.

___     ___ 7. You can disagree in a way that is respectful.

___     ___ 8. To get respect, you have to give respect.

___     ___ 9. Every person has a right to respect.

___     ___ 10. Respect has to be earned.

Please go on to complete Respect Worksheet Two.

Respect Worksheet Two

Here are some ways I can:

Respect other people's property Respect other people's ideas

1. 1.

2. 2.

Respect people who are different Respect teacher

1. 1.

2. 2.

Respect my parents Respect friends

1. 1.

2. 2.

Respect strangers Respect myself

1. 1.

2. 2.

Conclusion

As I come to an conclusion I would just like to state, parents want nothing more than for their children to grow up into well-mannered individuals and give the proper respect to other people. Which is why character education is an important part in their studies, because success in life does not always rely on academics. It is true that the main reason that you enroll your children to a school is to learn about acedemic subjects like math, history, science, and so on, but these are not the only things that children need to learn if they ever want to become successful in the real world. Character Education gives them the necessary tools that they will be using more often than those that they learn from the other subjects.

Activity: Define Respect in your own words and draw pictures how you can be respectful at school and at home daily. I would love for you to write your own rap song!