Appropriate for use at all levels from elementary school through college, this unique guide combines the best field-tested approaches to values, character, citizenship, and moral education into a single comprehensive, easy-to-implement model for contemporary values education. This model incorporates time-tested methods for instilling and modeling traditional values such as respect, responsibility, and compassion with more modern methods aimed at helping students learn to think for themselves, make their own responsible decisions, and develop the skills needed for good citizenship and moral literacy. This is a timely and significant book packed with 100 specific strategies, hundreds of practical ideas, dozens of thought-provoking cartoons and quotes, and numerous examples from real elementary and secondary schools. Designed to work hand in hand with a teacher's current academic, subject matter objectives, this approach does not depend on a separate module or curriculum focused on values. The author explains how teachers can integrate values education and subject matter learning so they enhance one another, and provides numerous examples of subject matter activities and lessons that also meet the objectives of a values program. These activities are effective, motivating, and interesting for students and teachers -- they make the classroom come alive. K-12 Classroom Teachers. A Longwood Professional BookAlso available in casebound: ISBN: 0-205-16411-0 Title Code: H64116.
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Appropriate for use at all levels from elementary school through college, this unique guide combines the best field-tested approaches to values, character, citizenship, and moral education into a single comprehensive, easy-to-implement model for contemporary values education. This model incorporates time-tested methods for instilling and modeling traditional values such as respect, responsibility, and compassion with more modern methods aimed at helping students learn to think for themselves, make their own responsible decisions, and develop the skills needed for good citizenship and moral literacy.
This is a timely and significant book packed with 100 specific strategies, hundreds of practical ideas, dozens of thought-provoking cartoons and quotes, and numerous examples from real elementary and secondary schools. Designed to work hand in hand with a teacher's current academic, subject matter objectives, this approach does not depend on a separate module or curriculum focused on values. The author explains how teachers can integrate values education and subject matter learning so they enhance one another, and provides numerous examples of subject matter activities and lessons that also meet the objectives of a values program. These activities are effective, motivating, and interesting for students and teachers -- they make the classroom come alive.
K-12 Classroom Teachers. A Longwood Professional BookAlso available in casebound: ISBN: 0-205-16411-0 Title Code: H64116.
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Great character education resource,
By Bernard J. McGroarty (San Diego, California) - See all my reviews
This review is from: 100 Ways to Enhance Values and Morality in Schools and Youth Settings (Paperback)
Howard Kirschenbaum's 100 Ways to Enhance Values and Morality in School and Youth Settings combines tried and true, field-tested techniques for contemporary values education in one volume. He expands upon work done in the early 1990s in collaboration with authors such as Sidney Simon and Leland Howe. His focus is on presenting a relatively easy to use selection of exercises that can be incorporated into preexisting curriculum at various educational levels to inculcate and model traditional values in a setting that allows for student discussion, input and skill building. This work responds to the growing call for materials to help renew character education in the public and private school setting. Kirshenbaum traces a short history of the various types of character education prevalent in the United States over the past two centuries. While discussing comprehensive moral education, which consists of a pluralistic variety of approaches to this issue, he concludes that values and morals education is a "single endeavor with two goals". The four major movements of values education are values realization, character education, citizenship education, and moral education. He quickly concludes as others do, that modeling the behavior of teachers and historical figures are the principle method of values education. Community and parental involvement is also a key to success. Implementation of this adjunct to the curriculum must involve real world problems and examples. The remainder of the book is filled with (literally) his 100 methods, along with hundreds of specific examples, ideas, clever cartoons and substantial quotations. Many methods are ones that the reader is likely to remember from their own schooling; nevertheless, the extensive collection of ideas is worth the price. Of particular note are some final suggestions for measuring, quantifying, and evaluating the results of a comprehensive character education program. Perhaps the only critical note to this book is the author's politically correct notion that he must somehow balance the use of masculine and feminine pronouns by arbitrarily using male pronouns in the first half and feminine pronouns in the second half. His pronoun usage would have gone unnoticed by the reader, except that this technique is trumpeted in a footnote in Chapter Two. It then becomes an irritating distraction to see if he is indeed consistent in his usage. Perhaps a weakness of social scientists is their calling attention to this relatively insignificant non-issue. For if it matters, then why do females have the second and not the first half of the book?
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