Building Character Resource Guide (Jossey-Bass Education) - Softcover

Bohlin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0787959545 ISBN 13: 9780787959548

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2008

Synopsis

"Building Character in Schools Resource Guide" offers school administrators and teachers a practical handbook for developing, assessing, improving, and institutionalizing character education in their schools. It is filled with real-life examples - both successful and unsuccessful - of character education efforts; it clearly illustrates the differences among values, virtues, and points of view; and it presents guidelines for designing effective lessons, units, assessment, and classroom activities.

About this title

From the Back Cover

In their landmark book Building Character in Schools authors Kevin Ryan
and Karen Bohlin provided a blueprint for educators who wanted to translate a commitment to character excellence into a school-wide vision and effort. In this companion guide to their best-selling book, the authors have created a hands-on guide for realizing that vision.

Building Character in Schools Resource Guide offers school administrators and teachers a practical handbook for developing, assessing, improving, and institutionalizing character education in their schools. It is filled with real-life examples--both successful and unsuccessful-- of character education efforts; it clearly illustrates the differences among values, virtues, and points of view; and it presents guidelines for designing effective lessons, units, assessment, and classroom activities.

By implementing the book's strategic planning tools and actions steps, and using the worksheets, overheads, and discussion prompts, educators will make progress toward instilling in their students the habits and dispositions that lead to responsible adulthood.

About the Author

Karen E. Bohlin is executive director of the Center for the Advancement of Ethics and Character and assistant professor of education at Boston University. She and Kevin Ryan are coauthors of Building Character in Schools (Jossey--Bass, 1999). Deborah Farmer is adjunct faculty member at Boston University, teaching student teachers, and an administrator at a K--8 school in Massachusetts. Kevin Ryan is the founder and director emeritus of the Center for the Advancement of Ethics and Character at Boston University. He is editor or author of eighteen books including Moral Education and Reclaiming Our Schools.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0787959545
• ISBN 13: 9780787959548
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176