Education and Learning

While conducting my latest three-hour Character Education – Teachers & Staff Development Class in a tiny school district in Texas, I began by asking workers go over why Character Education is essential in Texas schools. Throughout the last number of years I have received identical kind of answers – “youngsters are not being taught values (some teachers mention basic courtesy,) any further”, “kids are meaner to one another today”, “parents aren’t mixed up in child’s life”, along with other very similar responses to these.

In this particular last class, once i asked “What particular value do you see is most needed in your students?” three people responded concurrently, “Respect”. What an unambiguous indication of what this Texas District needed most!

This jogs my memory associated with an article I wrote recently on my Building Good Citizens for Texas website regarding Hal Urban. A comment from Dr. Urban was highlighted therein column – “That which you accept, we teach!” Even as continued to express the issues for the not enough respect in this particular Texas district, it became clear that although teachers were working very difficult to instill respect, students were hardly being required to strive for those high standards teachers expected and wanted from them.

High expectation is usually a critical bit of the character education framework. Encouraging respect between teachers and students and among the students themselves is a crucial part of teaching all of the other character traits we would like to instill, like honesty and loyalty.

Harry Wong, an exceptionally successful teacher, in addition to author and presenter on Classroom Management, told of a six-years old student who thought to him, “My teacher thought I had been smarter than I used to be, i really was!” Bed not the culprit that for high expectations met? Can we correlate high expectations with the teacher to higher academic achievement? Many experts would agree that, yes we can!

The foundation for just a good Character education program has high and consistent expectations our students will perform what on earth is right. We have now a vital duty that can help each and every student to be aware what the correct decision is make that right choice a habit. We should expect that each one teachers, students plus the property in the responsibility are helped by respect. That expectation of respect must turned into a habit. A critical piece of forming that practice of respect within the students is your own modeling of respect, by treating every one of our fellow teachers and students with respect in a similar way. Yes, even if correcting or imposing consequences, we must implement it with respect.