{"id":601,"date":"2013-04-04T12:30:44","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T12:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andersons.com\/?p=601"},"modified":"2023-01-27T16:43:13","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T16:43:13","slug":"character-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itselementary.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/character-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Character Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.andersons.com\/School-Awards\/Lapel-Pins\/Character\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-602 alignright\" alt=\"700-0-P5891-Character-Counts-Award-Pin-Honesty-Respect-Fairness-000\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itselementary.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/700-0-P5891-Character-Counts-Award-Pin-Honesty-Respect-Fairness-000.jpg\" width=\"165\" height=\"156\" \/><\/a>Sometimes the simplest of lessons have the greatest impact.<\/p>\n<p>Character education is one of those lessons. Whether you realize it or not, you teach character education on a daily basis simply by modeling good character. But additional lessons are a good reinforcement. Repeated messages make an impression.<\/p>\n<p>Studies have shown that the best way to teach these virtues to children is to weave the lessons into your daily curriculum. Some teachers choose to do a whole unit dedicated to character building.<\/p>\n<p>However you choose to incorporate character lessons into your teaching plan, try some of these helpful tools we found to make the journey even easier and more rewarding.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Resources<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The following links are great resources for lesson plans and ideas to incorporate character lessons into your daily teachings.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Character Teaching Guides\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goodcharacter.com\/EStopics.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Good Character Teaching Guides<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Character teaching tools\" href=\"http:\/\/charactercounts.org\/resources\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Character Teaching Tools<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Classroom Tools<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>These products will help reinforce your messages.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Character Posters\" href=\"http:\/\/www.andersons.com\/Decorations\/banners-and-signs\/posters\/poster-sets\/Popcorn-Park-Poster-Set\">Character Posters<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Character movie dvd\" href=\"http:\/\/www.andersons.com\/School-Supplies\/technology-school-supplies\/Popcorn-Park-DVD-Set-1\">Character DVD Set<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Which character traits\/lessons do you find most crucial to reinforce at the age level you teach?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes the simplest of lessons have the greatest impact. Character education is one of those lessons. Whether you realize it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,8],"tags":[695,123,508,518],"class_list":["post-601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-character-building","category-elementary-school","tag-character-awards","tag-character-education","tag-student-awards","tag-student-recognition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itselementary.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itselementary.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itselementary.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itselementary.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itselementary.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.itselementary.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5883,"href":"https:\/\/www.itselementary.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions\/5883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itselementary.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itselementary.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itselementary.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}