What is Character Education?
It is a learning process that helps students to learn academic and curriculum ethics. They also understand school community behavior and how act on ethical values like justice, discipline, respect, and civic virtue, sense of responsibility, etc. These are the qualities that every academic candidate must have for the save, and healthy school environment as the base of educational community. Character education relates such type of teaching that let students learn how to cooperate and the academic journey in discipline. Your character and moral qualities also an integral part of your career building that are honesty, caring, responsibility, respect, and fairness. With all these hallmarks, there will be a peaceful environment for life and work together. The center for International leadership in education announce 12 guiding principles for character education that are: Adaptability - Enthusiasm for change. Compassion - It refers to kindness. Trustworthiness - Reliability for trust building. Respect - Moral motivation, building honor. Optimism - Practice of positivity to make things positive. Perseverance - Hard work to conquer the world. Responsibility - Accountability. Loyalty - Dependability and faithfulness for work and performance. Honesty - Truthfulness while managing academic things. Initiative - Enthusiastically willing to all curricular tasks. Contemplation - Desperate consideration on work and studies.
Respect
Respect means acting in a way that shows that you care about the feelings, wishes, rights, or traditions of others. You can show respect to other people by always treating people the way that you would like to be treated.
Good Citizenship
Good citizenship means that you both follow the rules of the place where you live. It also means that you respect where you live and take care of your environment.
Self Control
Self control means not letting strong emotions or desires make you act in a way that is disrespectful to the people around you or in a way that causes disruption or damage. There are many different ways to show self control. Read each scenario. At what point does each character lose self control? What could they do to practice self control?
Trustworthiness
Think about the quotation. What does it mean? What does it say about the nature of trust?
Why Should I Trust You?
Trustworthiness is an important part of a good character. There are many ways to show that you are trustworthy. Think of some times in your life when you have acted in a trustworthy way. Who trusted you? What did they trust you to do (or not do)? Why were your actions trustworthy in this situation?
Fairness
Imagine you have some friends over to spend the night. You really want to watch a movie, but your friends really want to play board games. How can you solve the problem fairly?
Good Character
Think about a time when someone did not treat you well. What happened? What aspect of good character did they fail to display? What did the experience teach you about good character?
Catch Them Being Good
Read each definition. Write the aspect of good character it defines on the line.
Important
The qualities below are considered to be the six pillars of good character. Write a paragraph about why each of these qualities is so important. Are there any other qualities that you feel are central to having good character? Why?
Perseverance
If you have perseverance, it means that you do not give up. Having perseverance means that you keep moving towards your goal, even when you run into problems.
