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Bringing Character Education to your classroom. Making it work. Making your work easier.

1. Evaluation Guides

Free with kit purchase

Classroom teachers will love our purposeful discussion guides and valuable test units.

Developed by the Teel Institute and based on the model of our Research Initiative, Evaluation Guides help teachers and students recognize and build on the intended messages of each kit.

  • Individually packaged and designed to strengthen each unique character message.
  • Provides targeted language and focused concepts for problem solving and discussion.
  • Invaluable as a rich resource for conceptual development and higher order thinking.
  • Includes a pre- and post-test component and handy scoring template.

 

Our Evaluation Guides are recommended for 2nd , 3rd and 4th grades.

Each guide includes instructions for teachers, questions for students, and a useful scoring template.

2. Full Color Hard Cover Storybooks

  • Perfect storytime selection for non-readers.
  • Word-for-word match with video or DVD for read-along use.
  • Interest and readability levels to engage accomplished readers.
  • A ready reinforcement of the video or DVD message.
  • An ideal medium for working with individual students.

3. DVDs or videos with a Message

  • The core of the kit and of your character education lesson plan.
  • Key character-building concepts – Sharing, Resisting Peer Pressure, Controlling Anger, Solving Problems – 30 important messages in all.
  • Contemporary stories that help students meet the challenges of classroom, playground, and home.
  • Multicultural settings for lessons that transcend geography.
  • Original music, engaging characters.
  • Selected titles available with Spanish-language narration.

4. Language-Intensive Teaching Guides

  • Story summary, instructional goals, ideas for keeping the character-building theme alive in your classroom.
  • Dozens of cross-curriculum activities in language arts, social studies, science, math, art, and music.
  • Reproducible worksheets.
  • Student objectives, time and materials requirements.

5. Home Ties

  • Parental involvement component.
  • Five reproducible worksheets to send home with students.
  • Tips for creating your own HOME TIES activities.