Post on 15-Jul-2015
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Teaching Character Education toMiddle Years Characters
The Top 10 Best Brain Foods
Top 10 Brain Foods:
Blueberries (tapping on head)
Nuts nuts nuts (tapping on shoulders)
Fish (for the flesh)
Brocolli (in the belly)
Yogurt (for the waist)
Banana banana banana (rotating hips)
Olive oil (on your thighs)
Brown Bread (tapping the knees)
Spinach on the shin
Squishy tomatoes (with our feet)
“Kids don’t care how much
you know, until they know how much you care”
***Charles Sposato
WHY?
WHY?
Tragedy in TaberOn April 20, 1999, two students went on a deadly rampage at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo. One week later, a similar attack struck a small town in Alberta.
A 14-year-old boy opened fire with a .22-calibre rifle.
Remember: TeRRiFiCC
COLOR SCHEMETrustworthiness : blueThink "true blue“
Respect : yellow/goldThink The Golden Rule
Responsibility : greenThink being responsible for a garden or finances; or as in being solid and reliable like an oak
Fairness : orangeThink of dividing an orange into equal sections to share fairly with friends
Caring : redThink of a heart
Citizenship : purpleThink regal purple as representing the state
Seven Essential Virtues
Brainstorm:
How could you teach the Seven Essential Virtues
to middle school students?
Emotional Literacy
Let’s Play
• Emote
• Photo Journal
• Emotion Match
• Etch and Sketch
Emotion drives learning, not intellect
***Roland Barth
EMOTIONAL
LITERACY
Let’s Play:
But Out
Sticky Fingers
Wise Words of the Week
"“The first stage of curriculum development, is creating a curriculum
of care”
…Harold Brathwaite