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PRACTICAL ETHICS
Helping Students Lead Productive, Principled,
and Fulfilling Lives
Section 3
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PRACTICAL ETHICS – SECTION
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Section 1
What is character education?
 Why teach character education?
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Section 2
The history of character education
 Curriculum and character education
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Section 3
Constructs of character education
 The principles of effective character education
 Developing authentic character education
 Conclusion
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CONSTRUCTS OF
EFFECTIVE PEDAGOGY
Direct Instruction
 Modeling
 Implementation & Reinforcement
 Community Building Strategies
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CONSTRUCTS OF
EFFECTIVE PEDAGOGY
Direct Instruction
 Modeling
 Implementation & Reinforcement
 Community Building Strategies
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CONSTRUCTS OF
EFFECTIVE PEDAGOGY
Direct Instruction
 Modeling
 Implementation & Reinforcement
 Community Building Strategies
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CONSTRUCTS OF
EFFECTIVE PEDAGOGY
Direct Instruction
 Modeling
 Implementation & Reinforcement
 Community Building Strategies
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CONSTRUCTS OF
EFFECTIVE PEDAGOGY
Direct Instruction
 Modeling
 Implementation & Reinforcement
 Community Building Strategies
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EFFECTIVE CHARACTER
EDUCATION:
THE PRINCIPLES
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The Character Education Partnership (CEP) has
outlined eleven principles that offer fundamental
guidance for educators and community leaders
looking to implement a character education effort
and/or program.
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Principle 1
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Principle 2
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Promotes core ethical values and supportive performance
values as the foundation of good character.
Defines "character" comprehensively to include thinking,
feeling, and behavior.
Principle 3
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Uses a comprehensive, intentional, and proactive approach
to character development.
Source: Character Education Partnership,
www.character.org
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EFFECTIVE CHARACTER
EDUCATION:
THE PRINCIPLES
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The Principles continued
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Principle 4
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Principle 5
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Provides students with opportunities
for moral action.
Principle 6
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Creates a caring school community.
Includes a meaningful and challenging
academic curriculum that respects all
learners, develops their character, and
helps them to succeed.
Principle 7
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Strives to foster students' self
motivation.
Source: Character Education Partnership,
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EFFECTIVE CHARACTER
EDUCATION:
THE PRINCIPLES
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The Principles continued
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Principle 8
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Principle 9
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Fosters shared moral leadership and long range support of
the character education initiative.
Principle 10
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Engages the school staff as a learning and moral
community that shares responsibility for character
education and attempts to adhere to the same core values
that guide the education of students.
Engages families and community members as partners in
the character-building effort.
Principle 11
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Evaluates the character of the school, the school staff's
functioning as character educators, and the extent to which
students manifest good character.
Source: Character Education Partnership,
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AUTHENTIC CHARACTER
AUTHENTICEDUCATION
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What does a classroom or school with an effective
character education program look like?
Having students do what they’re told is NOT
character education!
 Imposed rules and extrinsic rewards do not
equal educating for character.
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CHARACTER EDUCATION:
OPTIONS
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There are essentially two approaches to consider
when developing a character education program.
The Holistic Approach
 The Smorgasbord Approach
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Build a caring community
 Teach values through the curriculum
 Class discussions
 Service Learning
 Explicit Instruction
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CONCLUSION
“Character education is not something new to add to
your plate. It is the plate!”
--Superintendent John Walko (NY school)
“Great learning and superior abilities will be of little
value…unless virtue, truth and integrity are
added to them.”
--Abigail Adams
“Good teaching cannot be reduced to technique: Good
teaching comes from the identity and
integrity of the teacher.”
--Parker Palmer, The Courage to Teach
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