Character Education
Important Terminology
Personalism
Service Learning
Other Information
100
Virtuous behavior that conforms to valued norms and customs.
What is character?
100
A Greek word referring to norms and standards for judging behaviors as right and good or wrong and bad.
What is ethics?
100
Who said: "To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society"
President Theodore Roosevelt
100
What students learn from having participated in school or community service on a regular basis.
What is service learning?
100
The process of making an impression on the mind through frequent repetition, insistent urging, or modeling.
What is inculcation?
200
What are the two key components of character education?
1. Values themselves 2. A process of valuing
200
A Latin word referring to the normas and standards that guide behavior.
What is morals?
200
A social movement that celebrates the autonomy of individuals, and their individual rights and freedoms.
What is personalism?
200
What is the first goal of service learning?
To provide experiences that will enhance students' willingness to participate actively in civic life.
200
Provide an example of inculcation.
"Good girls and boys don't do that."
300
What are two alternate terms for "character education?"
1. Values education 2. Moral education
300
Ideas that serve as standards of conduct, beauty, efficiency, or worth.
What are values?
300
In what era did "personalism" really occur?
The era between the Korean and Vietnam wars.
300
What is the second goal of service learning?
To help students understand that the responsibilities of citizenship are the reciprocal of the rights of being a citizen.
300
What book could be used as a literature-based technique to teach character and values?
The Little Engine that Could
400
What are the three dimensions of the moral components of character?
Cognitive, Affective, Behavioral
400
Qualities that all individuals should strive for, such as honesty, truthfullness, self-respect, and self-reliance.
What is virtue?
400
What decades were marked by a worldwide rise in personalism?
1970's, 1980's, 1990's
400
Why is service learning importance to the social studies discipline?
It teaches rights and responsibilities of citizens in a democratic society.
400
An approach that suggests that individuals' actions should be governed by the situations in which they find themselves, and by what is practical or expedient.
What is ethical relativism?
500
What students learn from day to day schooling practices that students experience that are not part of the formal school curriculum.
What is hidden curriculum?
500
What we think of as good or bad, beautiful or ugly.
What are aesthetics?
500
Fill in the blank: Schools tend to _______ society.
Mirror
500
What is essential for students to do before, during, and after service learning?
Reflection
500
Actions that aid other people without the expectation of direct rewards.
What is prosocial behaviors?
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