The information presented in this unique certificate program is vitally important to today’s educators.  By focusing on the power of character education, teachers can:

• Create a positive classroom learning environment
• Increase academic achievement
• Reduce discipline problems
• Reduce violence
• Incorporate meaningful curriculum with reading and writing character counts standards
• Help develop true character in their students
• Make teaching FUN!
  

Character education helps students make moral and ethical decisions about current issues in their lives.  It facilitates a caring community of learners where students feel they belong, where they are respected regardless of religious background, national origin, gender or other differences. 

About the Certificate Program

Teachers will be awarded professional development units for each class as it is successfully completed.  The Certificate in Character Education will be awarded upon completion of all four courses in the program.  These four courses are each three semester units of elective credit.

Why Pursue a Certificate?

• Completion of all four courses shows a significant commitment to an area of study
• You will receive an embossed certificate of completion for your office or classroom for no additional fee
• Enables you to assume a leadership role in your school
• Allows you to embrace your community in a true partnership
• Gives you the credibility and tools to write grants for your school related to character education

How Teachers Promote Character Development:  What Works
ED/B 9251
The family, school, and community have a responsibility to help students cultivate sound and wise character traits.  These qualities just don’t suddenly appear in a child’s life.  Teachers and administrators can make a difference by integrating a strong character education program with existing curriculum and modeling and reinforcing positive behaviors.
This introductory course will help you develop a character education plan for your classroom.
3 PDU’s
$270

Building Character Schoolwide:  Creating a Caring Community in Your School
ED/B 9252
This course builds on the first one by encouraging you to look beyond your classroom to the whole school environment.  Is it possible for you to make significant changes school wide?  How can you affect such change?
3 PDU’s
$270

Creating a Positive Moral Culture in the School:  Conflict Resolution, Peer Mediation, Class Meetings and Anti-Bullying Strategies
ED/B  9254
The daily moral life of the classroom is full of opportunities to teach children how to deal with conflict constructively.  Conflict resolution has implications not only to the educational system but globally in the business and religious community.  This course introduces many strategies for teaching children how to handle conflict.
3 PDU’s
$270

Service Learning and Community Partnerships:  Creating Caring Communities with Character Education
ED/B 9253
Character education can serve as a catalyst to connect the classroom to the community and the world.  Students and families link classroom studies to service learning projects to create community interaction and social responsibility.
3 PDU’s
$270

Materials required by instructor:  Character Connections by Marla Loew and Janie Hamilton, $39.95 (plus CA state sales tax and shipping)

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