We started using the ITI (Integrated Thematic Instruction) Model this year with amazing results especially in the younger grades. The author is Susan Kovalik. My 5 year old talks to me about put downs and trustworthiness and I am just so impressed. If someone would have told me this would make a huge difference, I wouldn't have believed them but it works. Good luck.
The irony of commitment is that it’s deeply liberating-in work, in play, in love. The act frees you from the tyranny of your internal critic, from the fear that likes to dress itself up and parade around as rational hesitation. To commit is to remove your head as the barrier to your life. --Anne Morris
Have you ever heard of Character Counts? www.charactercounts.org
CHARACTER COUNTS! is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, nonsectarian character education framework that teaches the Six Pillars of Character: trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring and citizenship. The CHARACTER COUNTS! Coalition includes thousands of schools, communities and nonprofit organizations. The kids love it at our school. Each month we focus on a new Pillar. We are a K-6 school. Lots of fun.
does any one know of a web-site that has materials that teach character education for 3-5 that I can use. We have to teach it in our afterschool program and I am drawing a blank on finding something for them to do.
