Character Education Partnership Templeton Webinar Project

1. Character Education PartnershipTempleton Webinar Project Richard Benjamin, Senior Consultant rbenjamin@character.org

2. CEP - Principle VI Providing A Meaningful Academic Curriculum • When teachers bring to the fore the character dimension of the curriculum, they enhance the relevance of subject matter to students’ natural interests and questions, and in the process, increase student engagement and achievement. p1 • How can schools harness the time and energy going into academics to simultaneously (and naturally) promote character development? p2 • How can schools enhance academic learning through character development? p2

3. Classroom ‘Leverage’ From Student Engagement Teacher doing all the lifting Adding ‘Technology’ What happens with little or no Student Engagement? Teacher still doing all the lifting

4. Classroom ‘Leverage’ From Character Education & Student Engagement Teacher doing all the lifting Adding ‘Technology’ What happens with little or no Student Engagement? Teacher still doing all the lifting

5. Classroom ‘Leverage’ From Character Education & Student Engagement Teacher – Role Change - identifies outcomes, needed inputs, strategies (Then GOOW) Adding Arts-Based Strategies with Students doing more ‘hands-on” activities, Including Academic Service Learning - preparing to Teach/Present to others….. Student Effort – Comes with Student Engagement – Students doing ½ the ‘lifting’

6. Classroom ‘Leverage’ From Character Education & Student Engagement Teacher – Role Change - identifies outcomes, needed inputs, strategies (Then Get Out Of the Way) Teacher adds one single and one double pulley…. Reducing the work to ¼ of the original effort for the same result To Do: Identify the metaphor for the ‘distance’ variable….. (Emotion)? Double Pulley

7. Classroom ‘Leverage’ From Character Education & Student Engagement Culture of Character – Respect / Responsibility, Class Meetings, Cooperative Learning, Co-Teaching Real world application, Academic Service Learning, Drama/Performance ofTeaching other students Teacher – identifies outcomes, needed inputs, strategies Student – Engaged and taking Responsibility for his/her own learning…… Pulling his/her Share! Character Education: Core Values Performance Values Intellectual Character Arts-Based, Hands On Activities, with Formative Feedback from self-assessment, And co-learning

8. Neuroscience – Linking Character Development & Improved Learning • Intrinsic Motivation • Willpower • Marshmellow Test • Perseverence • Caring vs Sense of Entitlement • Can ‘willpower’ be increased? • “…the long-term exercise of willpower actually increases the size of the willpower pool, metaphorically speaking…..gets tired short term, but can be built up long term….” The Neuroscience of Everyday Life By Sam Wang p 46

9. Academic Service Learning & The Learning Pyramid • Students preparing for and then teaching others, as Academic Service Learning • Character Development • Deeper Learning http://www.learningandteaching.info/learning/myths.htm