The Organized Teacher's Guide to Building Character,

by Steve Springer, Kimberly Persiani, Michael Becker

Overview

Learn to teach character traits to your students

The Organized Teacher's Guide to Building Character, a comprehensive resource that will help you implement character education into your lesson plans. The book features ten plans (one for each month of the school year), each focusing on a different character trait, including Respect and Responsibility, Honesty, Courage, Fairness and Self-Discipline.

• A multitude of ideas, books, videos, etc, to use with children of different ages.
• Complete lesson plans incorporate easy-to-access materials that a teacher may already have in her classroom or library.

Topics include:
Respect and Responsibility; Loyalty/Friendship; Kindness/Caring; Self-Discipline/Self-Control; Perseverance/Diligence; Honesty; Courage; Fairness; Gratitude and Integrity

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780071743303
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	06/04/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
File size:	15 MB
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About the Author

Dr. Kimberly Persiani-Becker is an assistant professor of curriculum and instruction at Cal State University. She lectures frequently at national teacher’s conferences in the United States and Canada.

Steve Springer is both a mentor and master teacher with years of classroom experience in both private and public schools. Springer has worked in the Los Angeles school district for 18 years and has developed and implemented many training programs within the district. He is the founder and director of a program called Reach and Teach, working with teachers in rural South Africa, and in his spare time has illustrated five McGraw-Hill titles.

Table of Contents

First Month of School:
Respect and Responsibility

Second Month of School:
Loyalty/Friendship

Third Month of School:
Kindness/Caring

Fourth Month of School:
Self-Discipline/Self-Control

Fifth Month of School:
Perseverance/Diligence

Sixth Month of School:
Honesty

Seventh Month of School::
Courage

Eighth Month of School::
Fairness

Ninth Month of School:
Gratitude and Integrity