In this revised edition of their bestselling book, the authors provide a comprehensive character education framework designed to help primary school administrators, educators , and concerned citizens organize, implement, and assess character education programmes in their schools. The authors propose many new ideas, suggestions, and promising practices that may be personalized to fit the needs and interests of a school, community, and children and youth. These include tips for leaders on how to involve all stakeholders and how to reach consensus, steps for developing a values curriculum, and strategies for instruction and staff develoment.
This book will also serve as a useful guide for educators providing concrete strategies, curricular-based programs, and perspectives that can be integrated into school life, inside and outside the classroom.
Full of practical techniques for educators of all subjects, this is your guide for transforming your classroom through essential SEL principles.
It builds on the seven principles of respect, responsibility, reciprocity, reverence, holism, interrelatedness, and synergy that form a framework for understanding the characteristics of stories, appreciating the process of storytelling, ...
A more recent version of the “good intentions” thesis is Andrew Scott Cooper, (New York, 2016). 61. Louise Diamond and John McDonald, ... Emily S. Rosenberg, (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003), 183. 2. Thomas Hubbard Vail Motter, ...
Clay and Sally Clarkson's Educating the WholeHearted Child is about rediscovering God's original design for the family. What you'll find in this book is a homeschooling model that makes sense.
A founder of an organization dedicated to promoting the compassionate treatment of animals and combating factory farming addresses key questions about the ethics of breeding animals for food, exposing inhumane practices utilized by typical ...
In Teaching and Christian Practices several university professors describe and reflect on their efforts to allow historic Christian practices to reshape and redirect their pedagogical strategies.
In this groundbreaking volume, the most influential leaders in the field provide essential information to better understand and improve the nature and quality of school and family partnerships for the benefit of all children.
Based on the core principles of progressive pedagogy, and the wisdom gained from Vascellaro's experience as a teacher, school administrator, and teacher educator, Out of the Classroom and into the World is a direct retort to test scores and ...
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