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Character Education
Cultivating good character is an important part of a child's education at home, at school and in the community. Many UPF chapters offer lessons in classrooms or train teachers and administrators in character education or peace education.
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Character Education
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CE Book 6
- Saturday, December 15, 2007
Book 6 A World of Choices
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Brian discovers a “voice” within that rebukes him when he makes wrong choices; Tommy shows his friends that choosing to work hard pays off; Melodie chooses to tell her best friend that she won’t help her cheat; Jacinta, the new kid in school, chooses to tell on some boys she saw stealing; Robert chooses to keep losing his temper—and loses everyone’s respect as a result; Maria chooses to have her own way all the time, even at the cost of her best friends; and Naji chooses to overcome his poverty-stricken background and succeed in school and life. These young people and others are faced with trying situations in A World of Choices. Some of them make good choices, and some of them do not. Echoing throughout the book is the theme of responsibility—that a person’s destiny is truly in his or her own hands. Full of stories that reflect real situations children this age might be facing, A World of Choices also offers Questions for Reflection and Exercises at the end of each chapter to draw out and reinforce the lessons of the stories. |
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The Cramers Get It Right It’s a quiet Saturday afternoon in the community. At the Cramer house, two of the children, Bob and Al, are happily playing the latest video game. Earlier, they watched a rental movie, and later, they will go to the mall to hang out. The third Cramer child, Samantha, is packing a lunch and filling a canteen with nice, cold lemonade for herself. Soon, she’ll be off to a picnic in the park she has arranged with some of her school friends. She can hardly wait to go paddling on the park pond. She loves to dip her feet in the cool water. Such fun! The children’s mother, Mrs. Cramer, has been, since the early hours, washing, drying, ironing, and folding the family’s laundry. Their father, Mr. Cramer, is in the front yard, mowing the long grass in the hot summer sun. He is hot, tired, and thirsty from having to work so hard on his day off.What is wrong with this picture?
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CE Book 5
- Saturday, December 15, 2007
Book 5 Family and Friends
| The world of a ten-to-eleven-year-old is an exciting place. They have a new-found ability in perspective-taking, a strong personal sense of right and wrong, a capacity for self-doubt, a growing awareness of the importance of peers, new insights into family relationships, and burgeoning physical abilities. The realistic stories contained in Family and Friends enter that exciting world and help the young person cope with challenges like competition in sports, choosing between right and wrong in front of one’s friends, developing new skills, accepting defeat and victory, learning from mistakes, maintaining relationships in the family, and the difference between courage and foolhardiness. Each story contains a subtle lesson in character and is accompanied by thought-provoking Questions for Reflection and Exercises that bring the lesson to fruition in the young mind. |
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Ask students to take out a piece of paper and draw a large oval on it. Explain that this is to be how they see themselves—their inner mirror or self-image. (Or you could ask them to close their eyes and imagine a mirror image in it.) Ask students to write or mentally write the following affirmations inside the outline of the mirror: Ask students to write or mentally write the following affirmations inside the outline of the mirror: I am good. Explore UPF's comprehensive character education curriculum
English: Discovering the Real Me
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CE Book 3
- Saturday, December 15, 2007
“And they lived happily ever after” is not just the promise of fairy tales. It is the major character education lesson of the enduring international folktales retold in this book. The overarching theme of the book is that virtue leads to happiness. The designs of evil people, witches, and sorcerers are defeated in the end; kind people, good fairies, wise rulers, and noble princesses earn their “happily ever afters” through solid virtues of character. This is the first “read alone” book of the series, with a separate student textbook of stories and a teacher’s manual full of thought-provoking discussions, activities, and exercises that draw out of the lessons of these beautiful multicultural tales.
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CE Book 2
- Saturday, December 15, 2007
Wise and Wonderful builds on the foundation of Book 1, Learning To Be Good, with more of Aesop’s famous fables. Written for a slightly more mature audience than Book 1, these stories are a bit more sophisticated in theme and are more firmly grounded in the world of relating to others in a sharing and caring way. Designed to be read aloud to the students, with easy-to-show illustrations, Wise and Wonderful contains the teacher’s manual right along with the story. Suggestions for hands-on activities and discussions help the teacher draw out the character education lessons of the stories.
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CE Book 9
- Friday, December 14, 2007
Developing My Character features direct teachings on such topics as choosing what kind of person to become, what constitutes happiness, masculinity and femininity, the importance of relating well to others, finding purpose, resisting peer pressure, the relationship between freedom and responsibility, the existence of the conscience, and the importance of honesty and self-control. Filled with entertaining stand-outs and sidebars that use famous and historical people as examples of the lessons being taught, the chapters are accompanied by striking graphics and challenging questions and exercises. Filled with wisdom and humor, this book is an invaluable guide to developing good character in the middle adolescent.
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CE Book 10
- Thursday, December 13, 2007
Building Successful Relationships runs the gamut of relationships from the adolescent’s relationship with him- or herself (through self-respect and a sense of value) to his or her relationships in the family, including preparation for a future family. Topics such as respect for others, true love as opposed to infatuation and lust, getting along with seniors and juniors, communication skills, relationships with parents, conflict resolution, sexual integrity, and coping with broken relationships are all topics covered in this fascinating journey into the psyche of the maturing adolescent. User-friendly illustrations and lay-out, including stories in stand-outs and sidebars about adolescents in relationships, make for easy usage and interesting reading. Questions for Reflection, Exercises, and Reflection Exercises stimulate thoughtful introspection.
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CE Book 4
- Thursday, December 13, 2007
Lovingly selected, these famous and not-so-famous fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen are retold with a character education emphasis for today. From the perennially moving The Ugly Duckling and The Little Match Girl to the lesser known but delightful It’s Perfectly True and The Water of Life, the book takes teachers and students into a fantasy world that nevertheless contains the deepest truth: a heart of goodness is a treasure for life. The consequences of doing bad things out of a selfish character and the rewards of doing good things out of an unselfish character are vividly depicted. Fanciful illustrations add to the fun and poignancy of this treasure trove of meaningful fantasy adventures.
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CE Book 1
- Wednesday, December 12, 2007
The stories in Learning to Be Good are retellings of famous fables, especially Aesop’s, with a character education emphasis. These timeless and illustrative stories have traveled from culture to culture and generation to generation. They appeal to all age groups with their simple but universal lessons about human nature and morality. Since most of the main characters are animals, they have a special appeal to children of this age. Charming illustrations and playful, dynamic activities suggested in the accompanying teacher’s lessons plans enhance the stories and reinforce the lessons learned in a hands-on way.
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Promoting Character through Community-Based Programs
- Wednesday, December 12, 2007
UPF is initiating training programs in the US that will allow hosting churches or community organizations to adopt Character Education as an outreach program and by hosting it, to earn funds to help sustain this program.
The curriculum is non-sectarian and so can be adopted and incorporated into any religious or secular environment. We will also be offering training programs to certify Character Education Trainers to offer this training throughout the U.S.
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Character Education
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Train-the-Trainer Workshops for Character Education Teachers
- Wednesday, December 12, 2007
UPF has conducted workshops to train teachers and other professionals in over thirty countries around the world.
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Character Education
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Peer Counselor Intern Program Continues
- Tuesday, December 11, 2007
UPF sent college-age young adults to seven countries in 2007 as "peer educators." These youth educators are profoundly effective in reaching youth, and the experiences were life-changing.
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Promoting Character Education in Canada, Australia, and Nepal
- Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Autumn 2007 was a busy time for character education. Not only did UPF representatives travel to four different countries in one month, representatives from more than a dozen countries attended workshops and planned to carry the message of character education back to their countries. One Muslim representative thought the Discovering the Real Me character education curriculum produced by UPF was just the thing for the Kurdistan region of Iraq, where economic, social, and peace achievements are blossoming but often ignored by the mass media.
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