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Character matters. As more and more schools are choosing to teach Character Education, trainee and beginning teachers need to know more. What is Character Education? Can it really be ‘taught’? How does children's learning benefit from discussions around character in the classroom? How do I teach it? What does good teaching of Character Education look like in the classroom?
Whole-school Approaches to Teaching Character
Whole-school Approaches to Teaching Character
In this chapter you will:
- find out about the ‘hidden curriculum’ and its importance for ensuring character education is central to a school's vision and life;
- identify some key strategies for making the hidden curriculum more visible;
- discover how to develop a character-enthused school vision and mission statement;
- identify the responsibilities of school leaders and character coordinators for developing character education;
- learn why and how to involve pupils in developing the character education provision of a school;
- gain some advice on how to evaluate ‘what works’ in whole-school approaches to character education.
Introduction
The previous section explored ways in which character education might be taught in the classroom as part of a discrete or cross-curricular theme. As has been explained earlier, a distinction ...
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