The Virtues Project Educator’s Guide - Simple Ways to Create a Culture of Character was honoured by the United Nations during the International Year of the Family as a model global programme for all cultures and was featured on the Oprah Show as a method for teaching children to “do the right thing.” This long-awaited guide for counselors, teachers, caregivers and youth leaders offers a wealth of character awakening activities and ideas for bringing out the best in your students and yourself.

The Virtues Project contains proven strategies for awakening virtues — the gifts within. It represents a wholistic approach to character education that can easily be integrated into existing curricula in individual classrooms, counseling groups, school, day-care centre, or youth programme.

Major components include:

• The simple elements of character honored by all cultures and spiritual traditions — 52 basic virtues!
• “The language of virtues” for drawing out the best in children
• Proven methods for creating a culture of character and reducing violence
• Powerful strategies to inspire Excellence, Respect, Kindness, Commitment and Cooperation in all students
• Success stories and activities from schools, Boys and Girls Clubs and childcare programmes around the globe
• Activities for children of all ages
• Virtues in games and art

You will learn:

• Positive school-wide discipline with restorative justice
• Tips for Transforming Bully Behaviour
• Counseling tools that empower moral choices
• One-minute counseling strategies
• How to begin the year with a shared vision
• Simple ways to introduce the “Virtue of the Week”
• Peer mentoring techniques
• Ways to turn your school into a community of caring
• A language which turns character slogans into behaviour

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