CHARACTER TRAINING FOR YOUR SCHOOL

THE DESIGN

CHARACTER COUNTS! is an ethical program designed for the purpose of bringing together into a public setting a common ethical language? It touches children, the home, the community, and city at large. It creates a moral awareness in the development of character, producing a community sensitive to transcendent values. This ethical ideal is based on qualities, highly regarded in all communities of the world, from the past to the present, and is the foundation upon which a credible democracy is based.

The ethical values used in the CHARACTER COUNTS! program are trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, and good citizenship.

DEVELOPING TRAITS OF INTEGRITY

Through this basic ethics program it is our pleasure to train whole schools demonstrating for them how to develop traits of integrity and civic virtue in youth at home and in the local school system. We believe more than ever we need to place moral tools in the lives of children that will help them know right from wrong!

CREATING AN ADMIRATION IN THE CHILD FOR QUALITY OF CHARACTER

We wish to create an admiration for quality of character that assures the young there is a right choice in a moral dilemma. That personal responsibility is admirable. That behaviors have consequences. That family can give a virtuous foundation that forms strong conviction and conscience. That good character does give a sense of well being to each child as it takes its place in its world.

LEARNING THE LESSON OF HISTORY

We wish to encourage people to learn the lesson of history: that no nation can surpass its moral strength.

IMPLANTING VIRTUES IN OUR CLASSROOMS

We see this effort contributing a purposeful moral strategy which is implanting virtues in our schools, communities, national society, and international family of nations. We have seen that teaching invariable moral truths, which are consistent, concrete, and culturally creative, do this.

SAFE AND DRUG-FREE SCHOOLS

These virtues produce safe and drug-free schools. Children, homes, and neighborhoods are brought to an understanding of compassion, loyalty to character values, and respect for the ethnic differences in people living on this planet.

AN ARENA OF LEARNING

Principals and parents sing its praises! Teachers repeatedly affirm how their classroom has become an arena of learning, discipline, and ethical accomplishment. It is with a great deal of satisfaction that I visit the schools where whole faculties have been trained and where character is endorsed school-wide.

Won’t you join this growing moral force in our schools and communities? It is much cheaper to ethically teach a whole child than to repair a broken one! Please enquire! We have pledged to help you in every way we can.

CHARACTER COUNTS! * “NEW LIFE”

REFRESHER COURSE

This training prepares youth-serving adults to be efficient character educators, and equips them in the proven techniques that have made CHARACTER COUNTS! the most valuable and most widely accepted methodology to character education.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

• Learn proven strategies for effective, sustainable character education

• Reignite with new life your professional development and effectiveness in character-development building.

• This “NEW LIFE” refresher course deals with all the essentials for teachers, teacher-coaches, administrators, and youth related workers.

• We will design the training to fit your school related needs.

NEW ENERGY

The three to four hour “New Life” course for schools already trained in CHARACTER COUNTS! is designed to pump new energy into, and replace the old, with new concepts in character education. Every concept is again reviewed for the school as they choose the five major areas in which they would like reinstructed.

All teaching staffs change from time to time with new teachers and administrators. Numerous schools see the benefit of updating their structure, methodology, activities, and latest teaching techniques.

TEACHING PROCEDURES ARE UPDATED

Teachers and staffs are updated on the latest research in the CHARACTER COUNTS! national home base, the Josephson Institute of Ethics, “Where to Go” for information and activities on the internet, suggested character books for the school library, activities that have proved useful for all ages, character approaches for teaching high school children, disciplining through character, and, sharing ideas that have worked for other schools. The latest teenage service projects currently being used by youth in the U.S. are also shared at your request.

THE APPROACH

Our approach to a “NEW LIFE” Training” is the following:

1. Half day or a whole day.
    

2. We provide a list of areas that involve the major components of the CHARACTER COUNTS! Program.
    

3. You choose the areas you think need rebuilt or strengthened.
    

4. We provide hard-copy [originals] dealing with those areas and you reproduce the materials needed for your group.
    

5. We provide the latest in Power-Point presentations, the projector, computer, and activities, etc.
    

6. The schedule: Half day: 8:30A.M. To 12:00P.M. - Full day: 8:30A.M. To 2:30P.M. A Full one day training – 8:00AM – 3:30PM
    

7. Cost: Please call us. The university provides scholarships during the training year. [2007-8] It is our wish to help your school.

CHARACTER COUNTS!* is doing wonderfully well on the West Texas Plains. Over 11,000 teachers have been trained including other parts of Texas and the U.S. and nine foreign countries. If we can be of help, please do let us know. Dr. Nat Cooper will do the training.

*CHARACTER COUNTS! and the Six Pillars of Character are service marks of the CHARACTER COUNTS! Coalition, a project of the Josephson Institute of Ethics.

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