BUILDING MORAL INTELLIGENCE (June 22)

As Aristotle taught,
people do not
naturally become
morally excellent
or practically wise.

They become so, if at all, only as
the result of life-long personal and
community effort.
- Jon Moline

“The Altruistic
Personality”
A 1988
Research by
Samuel & Pearl
Oliner

People who “rescued”
Jews from the Nazis
did it “because that
was how they were
raised”.

Character
can be a matter
of life and death

Psychiatrist Frank
Pittman
“CHARACTER
enables
people to
survive, to
endure, to
transcend
misfortunes.”

Tragedy in Taber
On April 20, 1999, two students went on
a deadly rampage at Columbine High
School in Littleton, Colo. One week later,
a similar attack struck a small town in
Alberta.
A 14-year-old boy opened fire with a
.22-calibre rifle.

Remember: TeRRiFiCC
COLOR SCHEME
Trustworthiness : blue
Think "true blue“
Respect : yellow/gold
Think The Golden Rule
Responsibility : green
Think being responsible
for a garden or
finances; or as in being
solid and reliable like an
oak
Fairness : orange
Think of dividing an
orange into equal
sections to share fairly
with friends
Caring : red
Think of a heart
Citizenship : purple
Think regal purple as
representing the state

Without morals, the young do not
learn how to deal with others
correctly and appropriately.

7 Essential Virtues
Empathy
Conscience
Self-control
Respect
Kindness
Tolerance
Fairness

Identifying
with and
feeling other
people’s
concerns

Crisis in the Development of
Empathy

Step 1: Foster
awareness
and build an
Emotional
Vocabulary

Step 2:
Enhance
Sensitivity to
the Feelings
of Others

Six Simple
Ways to
Nurture Kids’
Sensitivity

1. Praise sensitive, kind
actions
2. Show the effect of
sensitivity
3. Draw attention to
nonverbal feeling
cues

4. Ask often, “How does
he feel?”
5. Use the formula
“feels + needs”
6. Share why you feel
the way you do.

Five Fun Ways to Help Kids
Read Nonverbal Emotions
1. Play “Feeling Charades”
2. Make Comic Mood
Characters
3. Read with Feeling
4. Watch Silent TV
5. Hold a Feeling Lookout

Step 1: Foster awareness and
build an Emotional
Vocabulary
Step 2: Enhance Sensitivity
to the Feelings of Others
Step 3: Develop Empathy for
Another Person’s Point of
View

Step 3:
Develop
Empathy for
Another
Person’s
Point of View

Three Simple Ways to
Increase Children’s
Ability to Take Different
Perspectives

1.Switch Roles to
Feel the Other
Side

3. Imagine How
the Person Feels

Classroom Discipline that Builds
Empathy
C – Call attention to insensitive, uncaring
behavior
A – Ask: “How would you feel?”
R – Recognize the consequences of the
behavior
E – Express and explain your disapproval of
the insensitive action

KNOWING THE RIGHT AND
DECENT WAY TO ACT AND
ACTING THAT WAY

4. Escalation of
Youth Cheating

5. Increase in Sexual
Promiscuity

Bonus.
Technological
Addiction

Three Steps to Build Stronger
Conscience
Step 1: Create the
Context for Moral
Growth

Conscience
Step 2: Teach Virtues to
Strengthen the
Conscience and Guide
Behavior

Conscience
Step 3: Use Moral
Discipline to Help
Your Student Learn
Right from Wrong

Conscience
1: Create the Context for Moral
Growth
2: Teach Virtues to Strengthen the
Conscience and Guide Behavior
3: Use Moral Discipline to Help Your
Student Learn Right from Wrong

6 Practices that Promote
Development of Stronger
Conscience
1. Be a strong Moral
Example.

Conscience
2. Develop a close,
mutually respectful
relationship.

Conscience
3. Share your Moral
Beliefs

Conscience
4. Expect and
demand moral
behaviors.

Conscience
5. Use moral
reasoning and
questioning.

Conscience
6. Explain your own
moral behavior.

Are we walking
our (Moral)
Talk?

Your boss phones,
and you tell your
child that you’re not
home.

Your child misses
school because she
oversleeps, and you
write a note excusing
her by claiming she
was ill.

You drive faster
than the speed limit
with your child as a
passenger.

You do the majority of
your child’s work on a
school project but had
him sign his name.

You buy a ticket for a
“child under twelve”
even though your
child is older.

6 Strategies to Teach Virtues
That Promote Strong
Conscience
1. Identify the virtues
you want most to
develop in your
students.

That Promote Strong
Conscience
2. Accentuate a Virtue
each month.

That Promote Strong
Conscience
3. Describe the value
and meaning of the
virtue.

3 ideas to
Accomplish
this:
Virtue Talks
Read-Alouds
Articles

That Promote Strong
Conscience
4. Teach what the virtue
looks and sounds like.

That Promote Strong
Conscience
5. Reinforce the virtue
in daily life.

That Promote Strong
Conscience
6. Find opportunities for
your students to
practice the virtue.

presenting
VIRTUES
that enhance
Moral
Intelligence

One of the greatest gifts you
can instill in any child is a
deep-seated belief that says:
I AM A GOOD AND MORAL
PERSON.

3 FUN WAYS TO CULTIVATE
VIRTUES IN THE
CLASSROOM
1. VIRTUE FIESTA
2. VIRTUE SCRAPBOOK
3. VIRTUE SELF-
PORTRAIT

The 4 R’s
of Moral
Discipline

4 R’s of Moral Discipline
RESPOND calmly
and assess the
child’s intention

REVIEW why the
behavior is
wrong

REFLECT on the
behavior’s effect

RIGHT The wrong
by encouraging
the child to make
a reparation

RESPOND calmly and assess the
child’s intention
REVIEW why the behavior is wrong
REFLECT on the behavior’s effect
RIGHT The wrong by encouraging
the child to make a reparation

Regulating your
thoughts and actions
so that you stop any
pressures from
within or without,
and act the way you
know and feel is right

The Crisis of
Poor Self
Control
4 Factors

1. Overworked,
Stressed-Out
Parents (and
Teachers)

3. Over-Reliance
on Chemical
Restraints
Instead of Self-
Constraints

4. Glorification of
Out-of-Control
Behavior in
Entertainment

Three Steps to Build
Self-Control
Step 1: Model Self-Control and Make
it a Priority for them
Step 2: Encourage them to be their
own Motivator
Step 3: Teach them to control their
Urges and think before acting

Self-Control
Step 1: Model Self-
Control and Make it
a Priority for them

How do I act in front
of my students when
the day is hard and
my patience is
lacking?

How do I control my
own anger and
stress?

In the middle of an
argument, am I able
to stop and say, “Let’s
stay calm?”

Am I doing anything in
excess - drinking, eating,
smoking, swearing,
spending, working, playing
– that might send a wrong
signal?

Four
Practices
That
Nurture
Self-
Control

Four Practices That Nurture
Self-Control
1. Teach the
Meaning and Value
of Self-Control

Self-Control
2. Commit yourself
to raising kids with
Self-Control

Self-Control
3. Create a Class
Self-Control Motto

Self-Control
4. Set a rule to talk
ONLY when in
control.

Self-Control
Step 2: Encourage
them to be their own
Motivator

Five Simple Ways to
Help Kids Reinforce
Themselves for a Job
Well Done

1. Switch your
pronouns from “I” to
“You”
Five Simple Ways to Help Kids Reinforce Themselves
for a Job Well Done

2. Encourage Internal
Praise
for a Job Well Done

3. Ask the Child to
acknowledge
herself/himself.
for a Job Well Done

4. Keep an
accomplishment
journal.
for a Job Well Done

5. Design a Certificate
for a Job Well Done

Strategies for
Effective Praise

1. Praise the action, not the
child.
2. Make the praise as
specific as possible.

3. The praise should be
deserved.
4. The praise should be
genuine.

Self-Control
Step 3: Teach them
to control their
Urges and think
before acting

1. Develop a feeling
vocabulary.

2. Identify anger warning
signs.

3. Use Self-Talk to stay in
control.

4. Teach Abdominal
Breath Control

8 Ways to Help
Kids Control
their Spending
Urges

1. Give weekly or monthly
allowance (depending on the
age) so that he/she can learn
to budget money.

2. Buy him/her a piggy bank
to save coins. Make a rule
that it must be filled before
the money is spent.

3. Make him draw/write down
intended purchase and post it
for a few days before he buys
it.

4. Require him to spend his
own money on entertainment
and non-essential items.

5. Help him open up a
savings account so that he
can monitor his money and
spending.

6. Require that a portion of
his allowance go to a charity
of his choice.

7. Require a set portion of his
allowance to be saved.

8. Say no to frivolous, rash
buying – and don’t give in.

Showing you value
others by treating
them in a courteous
and considerate way.

The Crisis of
Disrespect
6 Factors

1. The impact of
treating kids
disrespectfully

3. The price of
fear and
suspicion

4. The decrease
of prominent role
models

5. The increase in
obscene
language

6. Crudeness,
rudeness and
raunchiness
flaunted by media

RESPECT
Step 1: Convey the Meaning of
Respect by Modeling and Teaching it
Step 2: Enhance Respect for
Authority and Squelch Rudeness
Step 3: Emphasize Good Manners and
Courtesy – They do Count!

RESPECT
Step 1: Convey the
Meaning of Respect
by Modeling and
Teaching it

7 Practices
that
Nurture
Respect
and Love

1. Treat your student
as the most important
person in the world.

2. Give love with no
strings attached

3. Listen attentively
and respectfully.

4. Communicate
respect with your
whole body, not just
with your words.

5. Build positive self-
concepts.

6. Tell them often why
you love and cherish
them.

Three Ways to
Teach Kids the
Meaning of
RESPECT

2
Ask the
Golden
Rule
Question

RESPECT
Step 2: Enhance
Respect for
Authority and
Squelch Rudeness

How to get rid of
Disrespectful Behavior

Step 1: Call out
the rude
behavior on the
spot.

Step 2: Refuse
to engage when
treated
disrespectfully.

Step 3: If
rudeness
continues, set a
consequence.

Step 4: Teach
new behaviors
to replace
inappropriate
ones.

Step 5:
Encourage
respectful
behavior.

RESPECT
Step 3: Emphasize
Good Manners and
Courtesy – They do
Count!

Demonstrating
concern about the
welfare and
feelings of others

Step 1: Teach the Meaning
and Value of Kindness
Step 2: Establish Zero
Tolerance for Unkindness
Step 3: Encourage Kindness
and Point Out Its Positive
Effect

Step 1: Teach the Meaning
and Value of Kindness

4 Ways to Help
Kids Understand
KINDNESS

3
Teach the
Meaning of
KINDNESS

4
Show what
KINDNESS
looks like

Step 2: Establish Zero
Tolerance for Unkindness

If we want our kids to be
kind and do what is right,
it’s imperative that they
recognize that unkind
words and deeds are
hurtful.

Step 3: Encourage
Kindness and Point Out
Its Positive Effect

Three Ideas for Helping Kids
Practice Doing Kind Deeds

1
Create a Kindheart
Centerpiece

Respecting the dignity
and rights of all persons,
even those whose beliefs
and behaviors differ from
our own

Step 1: Model and Nurture
Tolerance
Step 2: Instill an Appreciation
for Diversity
Step 3: Counter Stereotypes
and Never Tolerate Prejudice

Step 1: Model and Nurture
Tolerance

6 Practices that Help
Raise Tolerant Kids

1
Confront your
own prejudices

2
Commit yourself to
raising tolerant kids

3
Refuse to allow
discriminatory
comments in your
presence

4
Provide Positive
Images of all Ethnic
Groups

5
Encourage
Involvement with a
wide range of
diversities

6
Live Your Life as an
Example of
Tolerance

Step 2: Instill an
Appreciation for
Diversity

4 Ways to
Develop
Positive
Attitudes
About
Diversity

1
Celebrate
Differences
Early On

2
Expose the
Young to
Diversity

3
Give
Straightforward
Answers to
Questions
About
Differences

4
Help them
Look for
Similarities

Step 3: Counter Stereotypes
and Never Tolerate Prejudice

Choosing to be open
minded and to act in a
just and fair way

FAIRNESS
Step 1: Treat Your Students Fairly
Step 2: Help Your Students Learn to
Behave Fairly
Step 3: Teach Your Students Ways to
Stand Up Against Unfairness and
Injustice

Step 1: Treat Your
Students Fairly

5 Adult
Behaviors that
Boost Fairness
in Kids

1
Be a strong
Example of
FAIRNESS

3
Share Your
Beliefs About
FAIRNESS

5
Set
FAIR
and Realistic
Expectations

Step 2: Help Your Students
Learn to Behave Fairly

Step 3: Teach Your Students Ways
to Stand Up Against Unfairness
and Injustice

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