While I was back in Taiwan interviewing school principals and university professor, there was a serious event happening at one of the junior high schools in Taoyuan area. This school has a lot of bullying going on inside and outside of the campus. However, the principal didn’t take any action to solve the problems or prevent the bullying behaviors. Therefore, more than 60 teachers signed a letter and requested the MOE to re-locate this principal. I discussed this news with those principals about why student’s behaviors are so different nowadays. They all mentioned that the character education is fading from schools, too much emphasis on the exam scores and easier to get into an excellent university but harder to find a good job afterward. The more I read about character education the more I feel that this is what the education needs, if we want to focus on the mega vision of education. 1. Children learn from the adults’ good deeds more than their words. As educators, we need to remind ourselves to be a great model for our students. 2. Be a life mentor to our students; don’t underestimate our influence/impact on our students’ lives, even the little ones’. 3. All the great deeds start from something small, so never give up, hold on our visions, put them in action, and then touchdown! It’s not hard to understand how important the integrity is to everyone, but to follow it is another thing. “One good deed a day!” was what we learned and did in elementary school, after entering junior high schools, the focus just shifted to academic all the way through high schools, I think we need to bring character education back to all schools, not just lower schools, even in higher education it’s a must as well.
I believe the topic of Character Education is one of the important pillar of education system regardless the nationality and socio-cultural impact. On the base of Character Education teachers can teach our next generation to develop their values, behavior, morality and their successful lifelong learning. In the current knowledge base society it is necessary to value social and emotional learning, as well as cognitive development in order to prevent violence and conflict and provide healthy and life skill education for productive critical thinking by ethical reasoning in the problem base approach, so at the end to have the students to be global citizenship. However, globally in many educational institutions many of these program such as "religious education", "moral education", "values clarification" considered failed. We are as educational leaders have to start Character Education Movement by creating or encouraging schools to foster ethical, responsible, and caring young people by modeling and teaching good character through an emphasis on universal values that we all share. It is the intentional, proactive effort by schools, districts, and states to instill in their students important core, ethical, and civic values such as respect, responsibility, integrity, perseverance, courage, justice, and self-discipline. Character Education's long-term solutions address moral, ethical, and academic issues that are of growing concern about our society and the safety of our schools. Character Education is effectively integrated into the Social Studies Standard Course of Study and may be used as the underpinning for other critical issues such as discipline problems, gang violence, teen pregnancy, and poor academic achievement. Also it is Jerome’s dissertation topic but the mission of all educators to support this movement.
Bonnie said --- I think Character Education is an important factor of education system. Base on Character Education, teachers can help students to understand the meaning of human being, life and living. In recently years, China has developed rapidly. We have the skyscrapers. BMW runs on the roads. LV and Gucci are put in almost malls. But in the bus, young people can not give the seat to old man. Before Chinese New Year, we have a very famous sentence as: my father is Ligang. Young generations are forgetting the meaning of traditional customs and culture. Shira and I have the similar cultural background. I really agree with her ideas about the character education. Too much emphasis is put on the exam scores and easier to get into an excellent university but harder to find a good job afterward. 1. A famous Chinese saying: the more strong young people are, the better the country become. Young people are the sun in the morning. Education has the responsibility to give young generation the character education. 2. A nation who can understand to respect the traditional values is a hopeful nation. 3. The true power comes from your heart. Character education should tell young people how to survive, live and life.
I had excused this week class, just only share a point of view as a school leader. As a leader, we cannot be refused that to improve and making the school change for a better future is our responsibility. The school leader is the change agent. –Jackie-
While I was back in Taiwan interviewing school principals and university professor, there was a serious event happening at one of the junior high schools in Taoyuan area. This school has a lot of bullying going on inside and outside of the campus. However, the principal didn’t take any action to solve the problems or prevent the bullying behaviors. Therefore, more than 60 teachers signed a letter and requested the MOE to re-locate this principal. I discussed this news with those principals about why student’s behaviors are so different nowadays. They all mentioned that the character education is fading from schools, too much emphasis on the exam scores and easier to get into an excellent university but harder to find a good job afterward. The more I read about character education the more I feel that this is what the education needs, if we want to focus on the mega vision of education.
ReplyDelete1. Children learn from the adults’ good deeds more than their words. As educators, we need to remind ourselves to be a great model for our students.
2. Be a life mentor to our students; don’t underestimate our influence/impact on our students’ lives, even the little ones’.
3. All the great deeds start from something small, so never give up, hold on our visions, put them in action, and then touchdown!
It’s not hard to understand how important the integrity is to everyone, but to follow it is another thing. “One good deed a day!” was what we learned and did in elementary school, after entering junior high schools, the focus just shifted to academic all the way through high schools, I think we need to bring character education back to all schools, not just lower schools, even in higher education it’s a must as well.
I believe the topic of Character Education is one of the important pillar of education system regardless the nationality and socio-cultural impact. On the base of Character Education teachers can teach our next generation to develop their values, behavior, morality and their successful lifelong learning. In the current knowledge base society it is necessary to value social and emotional learning, as well as cognitive development in order to prevent violence and conflict and provide healthy and life skill education for productive critical thinking by ethical reasoning in the problem base approach, so at the end to have the students to be global citizenship. However, globally in many educational institutions many of these program such as "religious education", "moral education", "values clarification" considered failed.
ReplyDeleteWe are as educational leaders have to start Character Education Movement by creating or encouraging schools to foster ethical, responsible, and caring young people by modeling and teaching good character through an emphasis on universal values that we all share. It is the intentional, proactive effort by schools, districts, and states to instill in their students important core, ethical, and civic values such as respect, responsibility, integrity, perseverance, courage, justice, and self-discipline. Character Education's long-term solutions address moral, ethical, and academic issues that are of growing concern about our society and the safety of our schools. Character Education is effectively integrated into the Social Studies Standard Course of Study and may be used as the underpinning for other critical issues such as discipline problems, gang violence, teen pregnancy, and poor academic achievement.
Also it is Jerome’s dissertation topic but the mission of all educators to support this movement.
Bonnie said ---
ReplyDeleteI think Character Education is an important factor of education system. Base on Character Education, teachers can help students to understand the meaning of human being, life and living. In recently years, China has developed rapidly. We have the skyscrapers. BMW runs on the roads. LV and Gucci are put in almost malls. But in the bus, young people can not give the seat to old man. Before Chinese New Year, we have a very famous sentence as: my father is Ligang. Young generations are forgetting the meaning of traditional customs and culture. Shira and I have the similar cultural background. I really agree with her ideas about the character education. Too much emphasis is put on the exam scores and easier to get into an excellent university but harder to find a good job afterward.
1. A famous Chinese saying: the more strong young people are, the better the country become. Young people are the sun in the morning. Education has the responsibility to give young generation the character education.
2. A nation who can understand to respect the traditional values is a hopeful nation.
3. The true power comes from your heart. Character education should tell young people how to survive, live and life.
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ReplyDeleteI had excused this week class, just only share a point of view as a school leader. As a leader, we cannot be refused that to improve and making the school change for a better future is our responsibility. The school leader is the change agent. –Jackie-
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