Priority+Jigsaw+Activity+Group+4

Our Three Focus Questions for 07/08
=What can I do to get the students to return tomorrow?= =What can I do to promote curiosity?= =What can I do to help students have a better vision of themselves tomorrow than they have today?=

Group 4: How might this book help us?
Browse through the content of this book: [|Connecting Character to Conduct: Helping Students Do the Right Things] by Rita Stein, Roberta Richin, Richard Banyon, Francine Banyon and Marc Stein
 * Step 1:**

As a group, decide what is the best content from the book (for helping us address our focus questions) and why.
 * Step 2:**

What are the best ideas from the book and why:

Returning tomorrow
 * School wide activities - pep rallies & assemblies, spirit week, etc.
 * Having clear and consistent expectations for school & students
 * Students wrote a letter to parent/guardian to explain the goal of the school (broken down to goal of class, their role as learner, the teachers' roles, and parents role in their learning

Promoting Curiosity
 * Poster contests
 * word of the day activities
 * short run service learning activities
 * fund raising functions
 * special assembly programs
 * incentive programs
 * theme of the month initiatives
 * To use the technology & media that they already use to provide them more positive social and interactive experiences.

Better vision of selves
 * listen to the students and try to relate to the things that really matter to them
 * connect the academics to these things (no matter how childish it may seem to us)
 * four guiding principles for connecting character to conduct
 * Respect - the words we use and the actions we choose show how we feel about ourselves and others
 * Impulse Control - do the right things for the right reasons automatically, even unders stress
 * Compassion - find things in common with other people, even when they seem very different, to develop empathy
 * Equity - making sure that you equip the students with what they need to succeed - and being fair about it.

Alternate Group 4: Which of these Learning Style Activities might help?
Explore these strategies from the Community Building unit.
 * Step 1:**
 * Note**: This page from the unit has information about several different topics. Please focus only on the Learning Style Activities.

As a group, decide which are the best learning style activities to use in our Community Building unit, as well as helping us address our three focus questions? Why?
 * Step 2:**

Which would help us address our priorities and why?
 * idea 1