character education
Providing models and shaping habits
Moral And Character Education-Berkowitz talks about Character Education Partnership has published eleven principles of effective character education (Lickona, Schaps, Lewis):
- promotes ethical values and performance values as their foundation
- defines character to include thinking, feeling, behaving
- intentional and proactive in growth
- creates caring school community
- offer opportunities for moral action… I can’t remember if this is a trait in virtue ethics…
- meaningful and challenging academic curriculum
- strives to foster self-motivation
- engage school staff to adhere to the same core character values
- foster shared moral leadership
- engage families and community members
- evaluation lmao
Moral And Character Education-Berkowitz goes on to talk about how character education works, affecting many aspects of character development and even academic achievement if you have a good implementation strategy.
