Character Education

Tuesday 17  March 2009

Unleash the power of character development with simple, powerful Kagan Structures! Would your students benefit by acquiring the character virtues—caring, courtesy, fairness, helpfulness, kindness, and respect? Would their academic success improve if they developed the virtues of hard work, preservation, impulse control, self-discipline, self-motivation, and pride in one’s work?

In this interactive workshop you master the Kagan 15 Virtue Model and learn structures to foster those virtues as part of every lesson! We do not teach character development lessons; we make character development an integral part of every lesson. Rather than replacing traditional academic content, the Kagan approach deepens and enriches academic content by teaching students to strive for both excellence and ethics.

In this integrated approach to character development, students develop the virtues as part of every lesson! Have your students practice their virtues every day forming positive character for a lifetime!

Tom Searl

What to Expect?

Experience Simple Strategies in Action
• Learn a variety of simple instructional strategies to use as part of any lesson
• The Kagan strategies are step-by-step instructional sequences that ensure engagement and achievement
• Receive an extensive note taking handout; you create a powerful resource to use time and again
• Adapt ways to tailor the strategies to the special needs in your classroom
• Integrate the strategies into your existing lessons; you don’t change what you teach — you learn more powerful was to deliver your content

Review the Research
• Examine what the research says
• Review how schools and districts world wide are posting dramatic achievement gains
• Examine the data proving increased excellence
• Examine the data proving increased equity

Derive the Rationale
• Learn the nine reasons the Kagan strategies boost achievement and close the achievement gap
• Derive the rationale based on your own experience of the strategies
• Deepen your understanding of reinforcement theory, brain-based learning, positive cycles, and meta-communication in the classroom

Create Applications to Use Tomorrow!
• Leave the workshop with dozens of ready-to-use applications
• Adapt the strategies for your content — maths, science, language arts, history, music, art, or whatever you teach
• Leave with strategies to increase memory — make your content unforgettable
• Deepen the thinking of all students in any content area
• Improve social relations and social skills among students without any time away from academic content
• Allow each student to blossom in her/his unique way
• Create a positive class culture — a community of caring, engaged learners