Civility, compassion, and courage in schools today : strategies for implementing in K-12 classrooms / Patricia Kohler-Evans and Candice Dowd Barnes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kohler-Evans, Patricia, 1951- author.

Barnes, Candice Dowd, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Citizenship--Study and teaching--United States.

Citizenship.

Moral education--United States.

Moral education.

Affective education--United States.

Affective education.

Caring in children.

Social skills in children--Study and teaching.

Social skills in children.

Responsibility--Study and teaching.

Responsibility.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (90 pages) : colour illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015].

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Over the past two decades, and perhaps even before the “No Child Left Behind Act,” policy makers and others have managed to drain civility, compassion, and courage from everyday classroom instruction. We have grown to become an educational system that is almost solely focused on academics at the expense of teaching to the whole child. Civility, Compassion, and Courage in Schools Today argues that civility, compassion and courage are absolutely essential to foster good citizenship—to encourage and motivate students to action—to take on the perspectives of others, and to see how they can become productive members in an ever changing global community. Using the authors’ “Model of Influence,” a four level hierarchy, they suggest that students can be taught to be more civil, compassionate, and courageous, even when facing adversity, and can move from developing a consciousness about these attributes into embracing influence and taking bold action. This book provides numerous examples as well as lesson plans designed to assist all educators to infuse their instruction with these critical attributes.

Contents:

1. Creating a Climate

2. A Theoretical Framework: The Model of Influence

3. Current Research and Classroom Applications

4. Bringing Civility to Life

5. Bringing Compassion to Life

6. Bringing Courage to Life

7. Lesson Plans in Civility

8. Lesson Plans in Compassion

9. Lesson Plans in Courage

10. Advice for School Leaders

Appendix A: Lesson plan template

Appendix B: Resources for developing on PowerPoint, Prezi, or Blog.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-82-16-30746-4

1-4758-0975-1

1-4758-0977-8

OCLC:

903899778