Conquerors in Character Education Pam Drake Skyy Travis Karen Kline Tim Maroni

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Conquerorsin Character Education!Pam
DrakeSkyy TravisKaren KlineTim Maroni
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We researched several websites for definitions
for the character traits we chose. We would
like to thank the following people who helped
us create our definitions Dr. Michele Borba
(Eight Skills of Success) http//www.moralintelli
gence.com/ Center for Character Education
(Seven Virtues Definitions) http//www.nccharacte
r.org/educators.html Kids Care
Clubs http//www.kidscare.org Wake County
Schools Character Ed. http//www.ncpublicschool
s.org/nccep/wake_county/
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• Respect is the first Character Trait we chose to
  combine with skills of success in a plan of
  action.
• Napa Valley School District helped us determine
  these Skills of success under Respect
• Kindness
• Caring
• Patience
• Cooperation
• Tolerance
• Politeness

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James A. Michener once said, "Character consists
of what you do on the third and fourth
tries.This helps us to keep striving for our
goals even if we are not successful on the first
and second tries. Steve Johnson, S.M., (Director
of character education at the Ethics Center and
director of alternative and correctional
education in SCU's Department of Education)
says, Integrity is when your actions align with
your beliefs. We decided that to learn RESPECT
we needed to take kindness, caring, patience,
cooperation, tolerance, and politeness and
combine them with deliberate acts of
thankfulness. So, we have determined that we
will strive to the following goals
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• We would show acts of kindness to our siblings
  especially the younger ones by taking a special
  time with them doing something that they consider
  special.
• We would strive to cooperate with our teachers at
  school by doing everything they asked the first
  time without questioning, objecting or excusing.
• We would determine to show a caring and patient
  attitude towards our parents
• We would attempt to show tolerance for everyone
  in our classes by listening when they are
  expressing their personal opinion especially when
  we do not agree.
• We would be diligent to be polite to those that
  we are asked to work with in cooperative groups.
  We will try to find common ground and compromise
  whenever possible.

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• Responsibility is the second Character Trait we
  chose to combine with skills of success in a plan
  of action.
• Napa Valley School District helped us determine
  these Skills of success under Responsibility
• Punctual
• Prepared
• Helpful
• Dependable
• Self-reliant
• Answerable

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Steve Johnson also said, (Director of character
education at the Ethics Center and director of
alternative and correctional education in SCU's
Department of Education) coping skills are
emotional management, anger control, impulse
control, stress management, and so forth.
Cooperation skills include dealing with people
and dealing with conflict situations. We
decided that to learn RESPONSIBILITY we needed to
take punctual, prepared, helpful, dependable,
self-reliant, and answerable and combine them
with deliberate acts of . So, we have determined
that we will strive to the following goals
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• We will be punctual every day for school.
• We will be prepared for each and every class in
  school. This means our hearts (good attitudes),
  our hands (supplies and materials needed for
  class) and our heads (doing every assignment
  including homework) to the best of our ability.
• We will be helpful to five people a week (one a
  day). Our targets (those we help) will be
  those that we have rarely met or talked with.
• By being dependable to do our chores at home on
  time and without being told will display our
  earnestness about this plan of action.
• We can demonstrate our ability to be self-reliant
  by helping each other not be swayed by peer
  pressure. We want to be answerable to ourselves
  and our good conscience.

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We have learned so much and look forward to
seeing these Character Qualities formed in us as
we practice these Success Skills in our daily
lives!