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Moral Development in Schools
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Moral Development
Holly Barnhill
SCHOOL
- Respect for others
- Following rules
- Following instructions
- Responsibility
- Honesty
- Accountability
- School is a mini "work" environment.
- There are policies and rules that have to be followed.
- Students are expected to fulfill their responsibilities.
- Teachers help to shape students into positive members of society with their expectations and consequences when rules aren't followed.
"70 percent of public school parents want schools to teach “strict standards of right and wrong,” and 85 percent want schools to teach values"
(WEISSBOURD, 2012)
"School has an obligation to foster the students to become persons who act in a morally correct way."
(Valloor, 2018)
- Students are at school for about 7 hours each day. That is roughly 1200 hours a year. This time is valuable!
- Teachers not only teach their content but also demonstrate behaviors that students soon may demonstrate as well.
- I tell my students every day as they walk out the class "Be kind. Be positive. Do something nice for someone."
- I try to provide a positive and honest environment.
- My positive words may be the only positive things some students hear.
HOME & CHURCH
- Love
- Faith
- Understanding
- Acceptance
- Kindness
- Manners
Moral development starts at home and church. Parents begin the process of teaching right and wrong. Church instills the spiritual aspects. Home and church are the starting points of developing a moral compass.
As a parent, I try to teach my son values and morals that I want him to have in order to be a good, kind person.
- My husband and I begin moral development of our son at home.
- We begin teaching honesty, manners, and respect with the expectation that he will display these qualities at school
- Teachers will reinforce these morals in the classroom through their expectations of classroom behavior.
- Research shows that parents want schools to help develop moral character in their child.
- The foundations of morality begin at home and church and are reinforced at school.
- I believe that moral development is naturally and unconsciously taught in the classroom.
MY THOUGHTS
- As a teacher, I try to display a positive character, thoughts, ideas, and environment that will encourage students to do the same.
- School helps students develop into productive members of society by reinforcing responsibility, honesty, kindness, and accountability
REFERENCES
Valloor, R. J. (2018, October 29). Moral education in schools. Op-Eds – Gulf News. https://gulfnews.com/opinion/op-eds/moral
Weissbourd, R. (2012, January). Harvard Education Publishing Group. Harvard Education Publishing Group. https://www.hepg.org/hel-home/issues/28_1/helarticle/promoting-moral-development-in-schools_522-education-in-schools-1.2098516