Character Education Partnership Templeton Webinar Project
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Join Richard Benjamin, Senior Consultant at Character.org, for an insightful webinar on integrating character education into academic curricula. This session will explore how emphasizing the character dimension can enhance student engagement and achievement by making learning more relevant to students' interests. Discover effective strategies for harnessing academic efforts to promote character development, utilizing technology, arts-based activities, and service learning. Learn how to foster a culture of responsibility and respect in classrooms, ensuring students take an active role in their education.
Character Education Partnership Templeton Webinar Project
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Character Education PartnershipTempleton Webinar Project Richard Benjamin, Senior Consultant rbenjamin@character.org
CEP - Principle VI Providing A Meaningful Academic Curriculum • When teachers bring to the fore the character dimension of the curriculum, they enhance the relevance of subject matter to students’ natural interests and questions, and in the process, increase student engagement and achievement. p1 • How can schools harness the time and energy going into academics to simultaneously (and naturally) promote character development? p2 • How can schools enhance academic learning through character development? p2
Classroom ‘Leverage’ From Student Engagement Teacher doing all the lifting Adding ‘Technology’ What happens with little or no Student Engagement? Teacher still doing all the lifting
Classroom ‘Leverage’ From Character Education & Student Engagement Teacher doing all the lifting Adding ‘Technology’ What happens with little or no Student Engagement? Teacher still doing all the lifting
Classroom ‘Leverage’ From Character Education & Student Engagement Teacher – Role Change - identifies outcomes, needed inputs, strategies (Then GOOW) Adding Arts-Based Strategies with Students doing more ‘hands-on” activities, Including Academic Service Learning - preparing to Teach/Present to others….. Student Effort – Comes with Student Engagement – Students doing ½ the ‘lifting’
Classroom ‘Leverage’ From Character Education & Student Engagement Teacher – Role Change - identifies outcomes, needed inputs, strategies (Then Get Out Of the Way) Teacher adds one single and one double pulley…. Reducing the work to ¼ of the original effort for the same result Double Pulley
Classroom ‘Leverage’ From Character Education & Student Engagement Culture of Character – Respect / Responsibility, Class Meetings, Cooperative Learning, Co-Teaching Real world application, Academic Service Learning, Teaching other students Teacher – identifies outcomes, needed inputs, strategies Student – Engaged and taking Responsibility for his/her own learning…… Pulling his/her Share! Feedback from Formative self-assessment, co-learning Arts-Based, Hands On Activities
