By teaching a variety of skills as a part of a Character Education Program, students can learn the skills of decision making, problem solving, anger management, stress management, coping skills, and refusal skills. These skills build character and create young people who are able to make wise decisions about their lives. Our Character Education Program believes that by providing character building opportunities, children will become resilient to the destructive behaviors on their lives. A quality Character Education Program provides young people with opportunities to establish, as well as share positive relationships with their classmates and teachers. A caring atmosphere that is initiated in a Character Education Program by teachers, where there is a caring educator in the classroom, students learn to care.
Teachers also have the opportunity to model respect with their students.
As students feel respect, they begin to respect themselves. When students have self-respect, they can begin to respect others, as well as respect their environment and their surroundings. Teachers can teach responsibility by giving their students academic, social and personal responsibilities. Students are also given opportunities to make responsible choices and decisions in class that also provide for them a safe environment. Students begin to model and practice making responsible choices outside class and make responsible decisions with others on the playground, in the hallways, on the athletic playing field, resulting in the establishment of valuable social skills.