The Organized Teacher's Guide to Building Character, with CD-ROM »

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.

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.

Each plan includes ideas that can be adapted into regular curriculum, rather than serving as independent curricula, and each is complete with lesson plans at three different (adaptable) grade levels; reproducible materials like graphic organizers and activity sheets, journal entry pages, storyboards, etc. PDFs of all reproducible materials are contained on a CD-ROM that you can pop into your computer and send to the printer, saving the time of photocopying.

• 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

Introduction

Making This Book Work for You

I Lesson Ideas for the Year

1 First Month of School Responsibility and Respect 3

2 Second Month of School Friendship and Loyalty 33

3 Third Month of School Kindness and Caring 49

4 Fourth Month of School Self-Control 67

5 Fifth Month of School Diligence and Perseverance 83

6 Sixth Month of School Honesty 109

7 Seventh Month of School Courage 121

8 Eighth Month of School Fairness 137

9 Ninth Month of School Citizenship 149

10 Tenth Month of School Sportsmanship and Teamwork 167

II Tools for Teaching Character

11 Motivators 187

12 Character Art 191

13 Organizers 207

14 Character Tools 247

15 Group Strategies 287