Sentences with phrase «teaching good citizenship»

Teaching Good Citizenship's Five Themes Celebrate Character Counts Week in October Activities for Building Student Character and School Community

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The think tank Demos who conducted the research is recommending that the government now provides grants to promote Digital Citizenship classes where teenagers are taught good online behaviour.

In fact, where Catholicism is taught we find good citizenship and tolerance, as OFSTED has consistently testified.

Character Education: ICLS 105/5 27 - 12 (2005) requires teachers to teach students «respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, trustworthiness, and citizenship, in order to raise pupils» honesty, kindness, justice, discipline, respect for others, and moral courage» to lessen crimes and raise the standard of good character.

Character Education: The Policy on Quality Character Education (2004) recommends that schools adopt secular character education programs to teach fairness, trustworthiness, citizenship, and self - restraint in order to help students learn and foster the well being of democratic society.

Volunteering teaches your child citizenship skills, as well as empathy for others and a sense of community.

We need ways to manage technology in our homes in a big picture, broad way that will teach our children good digital citizenship, online responsibility, self - regulation, and how to benefit from technologies while staying safe.

The Webonauts Internet Academy game teaches kids about key issues of web safety and good citizenship.

And in 1996 the president gave the movement the ultimate blessing when he said, in his State of the Union address, «I challenge all our schools to teach character education, to teach good values and good citizenship.»

The skill set for good citizenship, and the curriculum to lead youth in those positive directions does not, of course, align with what we are teaching in schools.

I see schools believing in and teaching good digital citizenship lessons.

Next, focusing on the development of good citizenship skills, we helped the staff understand that discipline implies teaching punishment most often creates negativity.

In a 2006 article, Citizenship, Identity and Education: Examining the public purposes of schools in an age of globalization, Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Fernando Reimers stressed the importance of teaching tolerance and global values, as well as developing foreign language skills and knowledge of world history, cultures, and geography.

«Citizenship is a statutory National Curriculum subject that provides essential teaching about democracy, politics, equalities and anti-extremist education as well as developing politically engaged and active citizens.

Remember that you have a responsibility for teaching them good digital citizenship skills.

Instead of focusing on censoring or avoidance, it's important to focus on all of the positive ways social media can be utilized by teaching good digital citizenship.

Even in schools that make forthright efforts to teach students good social skills, there is a premium on what can be thought of as «vocational citizenship» — with its emphasis on learning socially desirable behaviors not as part of an attachment to community or nation but for the practical benefits they will provide to the individual student.

That right vouchsafes to families the options of private schooling and home schooling but not of no schooling, for it is balanced by «high duty» and by the «power of the state,» as recognized in the same Court decision, to «reasonably to regulate all schools, to inspect, supervise and examine them, their teachers and pupils; to require that all children of proper age attend some school, that teachers shall be of good moral character and patriotic disposition, that certain studies plainly essential to good citizenship must be taught, and that nothing be taught which is manifestly inimical to the public welfare» (emphasis added).

Educators report that grades and graduation rates go up, bullying goes down, and students are better prepared for college, careers, and citizenship when they are taught Overcoming Obstacles.

After struggling with how to best teach digital citizenship to ELL students in our respective school districts in California, we collaboratively created and now curate the Digital ID Project.

We also use Accelerated Reader as the basis for an incentive structure that drives reading activities as well as participation in events like Kindness Week that teach responsibility and citizenship.

Such an education would properly prepare learners for competent, responsible citizenship as well as teach the skills and competencies to build and sustain a productive professional career and life.

These essential concepts can be taught and aligned to standards, just like traditional citizenship fundamentals have been over the years, as well as incorporated into the newer project - based learning methods using real - world connections.

In addition to educating the next generation, teachers today play many roles — content curator, life coach and talent scout as they juggle the demands of teaching required subjects with lessons that will help inspire leadership, tolerance and good citizenship in their students.

These aspects include: the use of digital technologies within school management processes; developing a school digital strategy to achieve curriculum goals, including infrastructure management; effective pedagogy for future - focused learning and teaching; and most importantly, the use of e-learning tools to raise student achievement, while also incorporating good digital citizenship practices.

Interestingly, Thompson uses almost the same words to describe the values he would promote in teaching children good citizenship and good friendship empathy, responsibility, sharing, self - sacrifice, self - disclosure and faithfulness that Michele Bora, Ed.

Tulsa Community College betters its community through the intellectual achievement, creative energy, and responsible citizenship of its students, faculty, and staff by their engagement in teaching, learning, and service opportunities that transform and enrich lives.

Teaching your dog to sit and look to you for guidance regarding introductions is a great way to demonstrate manners and good citizenship.

Stay & Train Programs - Essentials Manners Course: teach target training, recall, leash manners, sit, stay, and down - Intermediate Manners Course: teach leave it, advanced targeting, place, how not to jump up, and wait - Advanced Manners Course: teach fluency, polite greeting, fetch / bring, and Canine Good Citizenship During all of our classes we use positive dog training techniques designed to encourage your pet to make good choices while discouraging undesired behaviGood Citizenship During all of our classes we use positive dog training techniques designed to encourage your pet to make good choices while discouraging undesired behavigood choices while discouraging undesired behaviors.

Our classes are not intended to train your dog to compete in any level of obedience competition, but rather to teach the basics of good canine citizenship.

The inmates are taught by Karma trainers how to teach the dogs «Good Canine Citizenship.»