This document discusses strategies for teaching character values and creating a positive classroom environment. It recommends integrating values education and character development into classroom instruction. Some key points:
- Teachers can help develop students' character through focusing on growth mindset, constructive responding to students, and using positive language to call out desirable behaviors.
- The PERMA model of well-being emphasizes cultivating positive emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning and purpose, and achievement in students.
- Developing virtues like optimism, gratitude, self-control, curiosity and grit in students involves directly teaching behaviors associated with each value.
- Every classroom interaction is an opportunity to strengthen character, through focusing on growth mindset, constructive language, and