“Values Education. A Handbook for Teachers” by Adam

Antonio Teixeira

antonioteixeira — 2017-11-16 08:51:36 UTC

The changes that occurred in young people during adolescence provide a reorganization of their values, so that the School, where they spend most of their time, should organize itself so as to enable the education of values, through its own attitudes of the teaching staff, the examples of each and the contents to be ministered.
Adults should give examples of friendship, collaboration, understanding, and respect for personal ideas, opinions, and beliefs in daily work, in or out of the classroom.
In any case, the principles of truth, justice, mutual respect, peace and mutual assistance must be defended.

Petru Bucurenciu

petrubucurenciu87 — 2017-11-16 16:18:43 UTC

I find the information about Collaborative classrooms very useful. Cooperation during classes or activities from various projects is a good base for teaching values. Working in teams, sharing or planning together can help student learn and develop values such as: respect, solidarity, friendship, responsability. While working together the students can learn a lot from one another.

Tatiana Polo

liowa10 — 2017-11-16 16:27:59 UTC

All the activities of the book are very interesting. I will point out in the ten basic themes that may also form a part of Values Education in schools. I think it sums up pretty well how values are worked in chool and in general in the everyday life of anyone. I like too the emphasis that makes when says "A child growing in a conflict ridden home is unlikely to be peace oriented". The family is very important to teach values.

Vilija Rakstiene, Lithuania

vilija_rakstiene — 2017-11-16 17:15:47 UTC

The most useful tools for teaching and learning languages are: to use poetry, songs, stories and biographies. These things, I believe, are the most interesting. And even students sometimes are surprised that poetry can be interesting and fun.

Dijana Stolfa

dijana1 — 2017-11-16 17:50:12 UTC

I believe that teacher role nowdays is to show students the direction, and then let them find their own way. By that I mean that solving problems as teams, finding the best solution together helps students develop their creativity, encourage them to make their opinion about something, and at the same time to cooperate with their team, share, help, tolerate different opinions, compromise or defend their point of view. By working in teams we give students freedom of solving problems the way they think is the best and at the same time teach them how to work with others, how to cooperate. I believe this is the basis of values education.

Milijana Gajic

bebagajic — 2017-11-16 17:52:18 UTC

All activities of the notebook for teachers are very interesting. I like to be dedicated to the part that speaks about love for family, selflessness, self discipline, hardwork with group discussions and observation of behavior and role play/we already did in our every day work in kindergartens.

Ester Degennaro-Italy. The Handbook is very interesting because the school has to be the place where you can build our future society based on true values. I love the statement that "every teacher is a values facilitator. It's true that we can focus the problem through co-curricular activities, only in this manner our students can aspire for values based living. Equality, respect, tolerance, and cooperation to reach a global level of peace.

2017-11-16 18:48:41 UTC

Maria Epifani, Italy

2017-11-16 19:00:06 UTC

The Handbook is really interesting, but I think that, if a teacher is personally committed to values and practises them in his/her own life, it is a foregone conclusion that the students will absorb and nurture the teacher’s values. I agree with Mahatma Gandhi:

“Your beliefs become your thoughts,

Your thoughts become your words,

Your words become your actions,

Your actions become your habits,

Your habits become your values,

Your values become your destiny.”

― Mahatma Gandhii
That can be realized using Collaborative Learning and Learning by Doing approaches.

Nicoleta Gidea, Romania

nicoleta_gidea1 — 2017-11-16 19:21:35 UTC

“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.” – CS Lewis
In recent years, a growing demand by educators, governments, and the community for the teaching of values in public schools has led to the implementation of values education. In the public school system, there have been attempts to construct and implement a values-based curriculum that reflects a naturalistic or social morality.

Ana Škarec, Croatia

ana_skarec — 2017-11-16 19:28:58 UTC

To incorporate values in the classroom it takes time, a lot of enthusiasm, a strong desire to change the society and team work of all school employes. Introducing confilct situation to students can put them in such imaginary possible situation and preapred them to react in real life. Students need to have a time to speak up, they need a chance to give their point of view. More often of telling what not to do, we need to start telling the kids what should they do and what are they obligate to do. Often we forget that some behaviour children never seen from the older ones, and they have to learn it, just like poems by heart.

Begoña Castillo, Spain

2017-11-16 19:34:00 UTC

"Values are like seeds that sprout, become saplings, grow into trees and spread their branches all around"
I have loved this sentence, because I totally agree with it. This is the spirit, and if you truly embrace this statement, you will feel values as plants, and plants need to be watered and nurtured, as values. Everyday, and in every action you perform. At school, at home, in the park and in a restaurant.
Values must be internalised and if we act according to them, they will be our compass in life, and they will act as a lighthouse for our students, and family, and friends.
This is the power of little actions: they are the seeds that will become future trees, and future forests.
And we are powerful as teachers, because we are in charge of the future citizens.

Christina Bravou, Athens, Greece

christinabravou — 2017-11-16 20:06:31 UTC

A very useful indeed handbook for teachers who need to have ideas, practical advises which inspires them. Ten principles and ten basic themes are important to be followed both by teachers and students in everyday life. Moreover, collaborative classrooms is a very good idea and give a new perspective in students' cooperation.

Raúl Cañamero, Spain

canamerocita — 2017-11-16 20:43:02 UTC

A very interesting handbook. I can see like India is worried about the values in the School and this is very important.
For me, the most curious is the important of the use the music and differet songs. Maybe, we have to use this tool more often

Eftychia Nikolaou

2017-11-16 21:23:34 UTC

It’s a very useful handbook with lots of ideas for teachers. Using music and various songs is very important in the classroom because music speaks to the heart of all students. Through music we can pass values to students and give them the opportunity to express themselves easiest.

Furthermore students can cooperate in a better way and achieve the aims of the school about valuesthrough collaborative classrooms.

Miguel Ángel Frías Gallardo, Spain

2017-11-16 23:20:58 UTC

I have been struck by the distinction it makes between the different building blocks in the architecture of values: the person, the family, the community, society and the nation. Values must be worked on in different states, situations and contexts, so that emerge naturally as an inherent condition of the human being.

Göksel Şimşek. Turkey

zeynepebrugoksel — 2017-11-17 09:15:10 UTC

When l finished reading the booklet l noticed that the values education is what we need in my country to make people remember the values we were accustommed to once. When we look at the society in general we witness corruption and decay in every leaf and branch of our citizenship tree.Not only the students but also the parents must be educated.

Hanen El Mouaddeb Tunisie.

elmouaddebhanen — 2017-11-17 09:44:13 UTC

All the activities of the Handbook are very interesting and useful with lots of ideas for teachers .
I belive teacher can change students to students who belive in humain worth.

Anca Bruda,Romania

2017-11-17 11:34:47 UTC

All the activities from the Handbook are very interesting and usefull for the teachers.I think that the most usefull things are using songs,images,poetries and music.This will help the cildren and students understand things better.Working in groups give the students a new perspective and they can do things as they think

Mehtap ARSLAN, Turkey

2017-11-17 12:05:02 UTC

"Once you decide to train a child, you need to start with your grandparent." (Victor Hugo)
"Knowledge is to know himself" (Yunus Emre)
"To correct others, first correct yourself" (Hz Ömer)
education and personal development my favorite words.
I studied "Values Education A Handbook for Teachers " .
Values education begins with family first.
pre-school, primary school, secondary school and finally high school life
during all these processes
the student tries to complete adolescence and personality development
High school adolescence and personality development mature.
according to the student's readiness
When I examined the values education handbook, it mostly included events in the process up to the level
what can we do in high school?
we can make sure that the values are mature, missing ones and priorities.
more concrete work can be done
scientific projects, curiosity, patience, success; contribute to the development of the school itself and the country
social projects are tolerance, goodness, helpfulness; Campaigns for needy people in school, in the country and in the world
sports projects, gentility, justice, labor; sports for sports,
cultural projects, tolerance, respect, diversity; poetry concert, concert
Values and activities should be exemplified by young people firstly by teachers and parents

Urszula Bartoń, Poland

2017-11-17 12:25:34 UTC

I found the following ideas important and motivating
- "Always aim at complete harmony of thoughts, word and deed. Always aim at puryfying your thougts and everything will be well." M. Gandhi - what we think and believe in is crucial so teaching values helps students to make better choices;
- a child is a holistic being so teaching only academic subjects without values is a big mistake;
- building ethos is a part of teaching values;
- inspiration and enthusiasm (apart from routine) bring life to values;
- you must be positive and appreciate the positive features of others while teaching values;
- the role of the teachers (their warmth and patience) are pivotal;
- reading books (literature), art, example of great and noble people enhance teaching values.

Daniela Bellisario

2017-11-17 16:27:31 UTC

In a society like the one in which we live, characterized by continuous and sudden changes, the school is playing a very different role which is more complex than the past. The teacher must be competent not only in his teaching discipline but also in methodological and didactic, psychopedagogical, relational and reflective skills. He must help students to acquire the skills needed to establish interpersonal relationships, to reflect and find solutions to problem situations.

Active learning methods (role plays, group activities, group singing, story telling) are very important because children can share their thoughts, discuss, work in group. These kind of activities help them to respect diversity, to be supportive, reflective, responsible.

Emre Madalina

2017-11-17 17:21:08 UTC

Something essential that i have read in the book is that the teacher can identify the values of each lesson, keeping the lessons’ objectives and learning outcomes in mind. So this is the most important aspect when trying to integrate values into curriculum. The efficiency of this action depends a lot on the teachers”s ability to find high quality teaching strategies and methods that could have an important impact on the children”s thinking and behavior(group work, role playing, moral exercise based on story telling). So the process is like a journey of self-transformation for both students and teachers, with the teachers becoming inspiring role models for the children in their care.

While conducting projects, the possibilities of integrating values are so much wider, but i think that it is important to involve parents into project activities,as family also has an important role when inspiring the children to assimilate and understand values.

SEVDA KESKİN

sevdakeskin12 — 2017-11-17 18:38:02 UTC

I have examined the book and really liked it. It was interesting and helpful for teachers who want to change something with values. We will be new people when we use this values on ourself and on our students. Instead of telling in a steady voice using songs videoes are more logical.The methods we use and what we empoze on students will change them and their thinking style and behaviour. With good educated and well behaved pupils we can change everything..

BANU KAN,TURKEY

insomniaman1 — 2017-11-17 18:56:40 UTC

I have just examined it and ıt is really useful..so...ı like the sentence at beginning of teh book 'Values are like seeds that sprout, become saplings, grow into trees and spread their branches all around..'because ı named the valuse education as the relation between the rooth and the leaves....then when ı went on reading ı came acroos very important points..For example,in the passage the writer says 'An education that connects the heart, head and hand'.In short in our eucation system we mustn't isolate the values from the the teaching.and the last thing that ı recognize ,while studyin values we need to get support from the parents or families of students as HIDDEN CURRICULUM..
Thanks

Ana Vega, Spain

2017-11-17 19:24:08 UTC

I liked this idea: " The nature and scope of home-school-community partnerships are fundamental to the functioning of a school as an institution that not only imparts learning within the classroom but also extends itself beyond its boundaries as a social entity"

We, teachers, have a great responsability towards students because of the high impact we have on them. We need to embed our actions with positive values, to be the model for our pupils.

Diego Arevalo

2017-11-17 19:34:24 UTC

I have read some parts of the book.
One idea which I like is the guideline for conducting an activity:
1. Introduce a conflict situation.
2. Identifying the challenges.
3. Propose suggestions.
4. Use reasoning for analysing arguments .
5. Conclusion and Evaluation.
It's the real life in the classroom: respecting others, giving opinions and making decisions.

Despoina Ifantidou

2017-11-17 20:13:34 UTC

I found the handbook’s activities very interesting. Using diverse activities, it’s possible to be more creative. Using enriched materials for teaching is not the only thing that matters; building a proper relationship with pupils is utterly important: children that can trust, be open, and discuss about themselves is a much more difficult task. Equally difficult is to develop a conscious behavior as well as the feeling of empathy for the others.

Ramona Gancea

ramona_frro — 2017-11-17 21:29:11 UTC

All the handbook's activities are very interesting and helpful, we can find a lot of good ideas to develop in our lessons. I like the games proposed in order to grow the self esteem and to help children to think about issues and to form an opinion on them. I believe that we can teach a lot by using games and some values can be taught by simulation of the concrete situations.
"Education for values humanizes education".

Marilina D'Angelo

dmarilina — 2017-11-18 09:30:51 UTC

I have found very interesting the scientific disciplines, science and math , just because it is customary to think that "values" are characteristic of humanistic disciplines. I teach math and physics, and I am always convinced that "watching the world" with "the eyes of science" enriches the soul and makes you look at things from a deeper perspective.
Suggested examples are interesting and easy to use.

Çiğdem Öztürk

cigdemozturkk — 2017-11-18 11:40:11 UTC

As a foreign language teacher, I looked at the activities I can apply in the English classes and I found some tips for integrating values into the subject. These are through poetry recitation, through stories, through examples of great and noble people, and through fictional characters. The book suggests some teaching methods which I found very helful such as Discussion starters, Drawing distinctions/thinking critically about distinctions, Comparisons, Good practices, Finding examples, Thinking about consequences, Comparing perceptions, Different Perspectives, Meaning ,Analysis arguments, Expressing or exploring agreement and disagreement, Exploring possibilities Finding criteria and Values judgement.

Suzana Jagić

suzanajagi — 2017-11-18 11:48:35 UTC

In a hanbook for teachers I saw a lot of interesting and useful things, for all teachers how can they bring closer to their student the theme of Values. The teachers can get a lot of new ideas using a handbook for teachers. I think, the team work is expecially important and we all can lear a lot of things working together.

Carmen Voinea-Mitru

carmenvoinea08 — 2017-11-18 14:31:19 UTC

I looked through the activities that are witten in the Handbook and I can say that I'm quite surprised.I'm surprised in a good way.There are some interesting and great ideas that we can use in our daily teaching.The best one I found the poetry recitation that we can make through stories,poetries and presentations. music and songs.These are ways to make students think creative and so,they can create their own values

Beate Vollmer

2017-11-18 15:05:30 UTC

The values-education handbook offers some very practical guidance for teachers not yet acquainted with this well-orchestrated approach of teaching values. The lesson plans are careful to include assessment strategies and propose concrete activities in which often not only the school environment, but also the wider circle of family and local community are taken into consideration as addressees. What I particularly noticed is the need for a holistic school approach with an action plan that honours the repetition of teaching values in a spiralling way and the care and attention dedicated to change mindsets. So on page 10 it is said that good behaviour should not be motivated by 'fear' or 'compulsion' but by a sense of obligation, i. e. from a 'must consciousness to ought consciousness'. In due course, with increasing age, pupils will be cognitively more mature to realize that it is also their own wish to fulfil this 'ought'.

Sophia Androulaki

2017-11-18 16:12:55 UTC

I found most of the handbook inspiring. I enjoyed the poem extracts.I think they can move and engage the readers. I also appreciated the suggested activities which are entertaining but at the same time they teach values in α "tangible" way.

Sylwia Stasikowska, Poland

2017-11-18 17:08:42 UTC

This handbook of "Values Education"shows the educational process inclusive of values education by adding attitude and values through Co - scholastic area of life skills, sports to emphasis on the holistic assessment of learners. In addition values should be inculcating in each subject. What's more every school prepares an annual plan concerning on values. What I find worthwhile: being successful would demand not only possesion of technical and professional competences but as much the possesion of soft skills and life skills. Every teacher is a values facilitator.

Teuta Dimo, Albania

teutadimo — 2017-11-18 19:22:26 UTC

All the activities of the book are very interesting. There are some interesting and great ideas that we can use in our daily teaching. The teachers can get a lot of new ideas using a handbook for teachers.

Irène Indemans, Belgium

irene_indemans1 — 2017-11-18 22:48:26 UTC

I have read through the handbook for teachers with great interest. I was happy to find out that we already integrate(d) a lot of suggestions from the values education book in our school. Based on the different parts in the book, we can develop a 'checklist' for auto-evaluation to assess the values education at our school. After discussion and consultation in groups with all stakeholders about the items in the checklist, we can find out how we could improve the values education in our school.

Didem Turakine Şahin, Turkey

DidemSahin — 2017-11-18 23:05:11 UTC

I really like this handbook. It has lots of important information. Expecially I found good information about collaborative / cooperative classrooms. I think it's really important for values based education. As it gives opportunity to use all of values by practising into a group. So i think that is extremely important. And in general i want to add an important note that I liked: Be fair: always be fair in your dealings. This will create a faithful, positive environment to generate respect.

Snežana Bogavac Mihajlović, Serbia

zanahajlovic — 2017-11-18 23:15:24 UTC

It is a very interesting hand book with a lots of idea for us, teachers. For me, collaborative classrooms is excellent idea and I use it in my teaching. Through collaboration my students share, help, tolerate different opinions.

Sawsen Essid

2017-11-19 07:41:16 UTC

"The individual is the first building block of the values architecture" this sentence that i read in the book captures my mind since it reveals the importance given to the individuals (students here). Thus, integrating values in the curriculum is essential for our students' growth The handbook is really useful for teachers Great ideas that will help teachers install and emphasize values

Abel Carenas Velamazán

2017-11-19 07:44:49 UTC

I really like this han book with wonderful ideas. Thank very m

emma giurlani Italy

emmauffa1 — 2017-11-19 08:26:24 UTC

I was pleasantly surprised by reading the the hand book for teachers becaused I recognized that we had already integrated some of the issues included in the handbook in our daily routine at school. I think that to create a check list of guiding values for school ,families and territory and periodically check it could be a very good idea. Our school had a very important experience regarding this theme during our last Erasmus + project named "Antwort der Schule auf Jugendprobleme" Answers of school to young people problems. Thanks toour German partners we started with our students a project which is called in germany "Streitschlichtung".It's aim is the resolution of conflicts among pupils and students with the help of peers .This project has become now an important part of our curriculum

Ersan Ersıkar

2017-11-19 09:19:38 UTC

I am and I will be very busy with the exams for a couple of weeks, and I want to read this handbook with clear mind, so I really have to admit that I haven't read it. Yet. I promise, I will. And thank you for sharing this.

SERAP KILIÇ

serkil — 2017-11-19 11:28:27 UTC

While I was reading the handbook, I was impressed by two parts. The first one ; the answers of the question "Why do we need education for values?". There is an answer ( all are meaningful of course but) : Dys-functional families, increased crime and violence, effect of media and information overload.. This is exactly what I have in my mind nowadays. I think this is our major purpose of implementing VBE in our schools. The second part that I liked : " the ten basic themes may also form a part of Values Education in schools."
*Think positive
*Be compassionate and do no harm.
*Discover inner peace
*Learning to live together
*Resolve conflict non-violently
*Build peace in the community
*Be your true self
*Caring for the planet... so on.
They are the basic rules for peace in the world. If we do successful attempts to implement VBE, this may contbute a lot to WORLD PEACE.

Violeta Panev

lingva3 — 2017-11-19 12:35:08 UTC

Holistic development
What is interesting for me are the stages of the development. Younger age pupils develop more of a cognitive knowledge of values, they are not that mature to internalize the fully, so the different stage of the pupil's development reflects different stage of the value development as well. They are to be ready to collaborate and get an input as well as produce an out put of what they have learnt not only as a concept but as a life skill too. The methods and techniques are different too. The teacher should have this in mind while integrating them on the classes.

Simone Pfliegel

simonepfliegel — 2017-11-19 13:10:17 UTC

I have found this very encompassing handbook very interesting and diverse. It covers so many different and equally important aspects of value-based learning. I found the map with different levels of peace particularly inspiring and am thinking about using that in my year 9 Ethics class in which I will have to deal with an Ethics of peace in the upcoming months. Also, the thought that a value-based education covers ALL of the subjects taught in schools gave me food for thought because I think it is normally predominantly taught in subjects like History and Ethics. On top of that, I think one of the key factors for teaching values in the classroom is creativity as everybody can participate and there generally is no right or wrong. It thus promotes tolerance and compassion among the students.

Chiara Maria Camozzi

2017-11-19 13:15:02 UTC

I found the reading of the book very interesting, as there are several activities that may be in place with my students, also because some of them I already put them into practice.
I think group work is very important, as more ideas ... also different ... we can learn a lot.

Pinelopi Diamantako

2017-11-19 13:24:36 UTC

This handbook is really usefull. It is an interesting approach of the values. I have found the practicl advivises very helpful. I will use this handbook as a guide in my lessons.

Emanuela Costa - Integrating values in the curriculum

emanuelacosta — 2017-11-19 14:03:41 UTC

I totally agree with the approach of integrating values in every discipline taught. I work in primary school and always adopt this methodology to teach values.
Very useful list of teaching methods (page 19). A friendly classroom environment, engaging and motivating is fundamental for any efficient learning.

Oksana Miroshnychenko

oksana_miroshnichenko73 — 2017-11-19 15:23:50 UTC

I have read the Handbook for teachers. It was very interesting for me and also exciting. As for me there are a great number of suggestions to use and develop at the lessons. The proposed games for developing the self-esteem and the ability to form their own opinion are very interesting. This book shows the possibility to integrate the values into the educational process. I think that we can teach our students by using these games and different values can be taught by means of giving different situations at our schools.

Sonila Drini

sonila — 2017-11-19 15:46:19 UTC

I have read a great part of it but not finished yet.Anyway,I saved a copy ready to print :). What caught my attention, is the approach in between the self-esteem aspect and the way how children are taught to express but also above all form their own opinions.Different situations in school serve as real situations outside actually

Gabriela Petrichei

gabi_petrichei — 2017-11-19 17:01:25 UTC

I have just downloaded the handbook and I will definitely read it entirely. For now, I went straight to the Learning Approaches as this section drew my attention. I agree to the fact that game-based learning is more engaging for students. Verbattle is a good idea, and I will use it in my classes

Alketa Bajrami

ketibajrami — 2017-11-19 20:08:10 UTC

i have read o part of it, but a dowunloads this book, because i need to know this sample, these suggestions to use for developing the self-esteem and to integrate the values into the education process.
Thank you a lot!

Giulia Bertagnolio

giuliabertagnolio — 2017-11-19 20:46:31 UTC

I like the fact that values are promoted through relationship, again it is respect and tolerance that provide us with peace and creativity. All the reading was dense of ideas and hints to put into practice.

Işıl Coşkun

edrn_isil_coskun1 — 2017-11-20 13:52:45 UTC

It is important to teach values but how? This book shows a good way and inspires us( at least me)
-Values can be explored through regularly taught lessons but these need to be carefully planned.They can be inculcated through the situations deliberately planned while teaching various school subject
-Values can never be taught in isolation. These need to be woven in every activity in school and subject being taught.
- The teacher must present the lesson from a humanistic and positive perspective , relate the values to school subject domains.

Ágnes Grünberg, Hungary

2017-11-20 17:25:56 UTC

It is a very useful book. Thanks a lot for sharing with us. I haven't read the whole book, but as many of us I have downloaded it too. We all agreed many times during these two weeks that 'Values education is not another subject", that is why I really like the Tree for Life as it shows how important it is to work together and how much we we can achieve together with parents.
I have decided to concentrate on Section 3 this time, as a mentor working with will-be teachers too, I was interested in the topic Engaging learners. The main idea I would like to draw the university students' attention is "A values centered approach in the classroom will add meaning to each class" .because " education and values go hand.in-hand. We are always examples. They mustn't forget it. This section shows the importance of many activities we use in school, in classrooms such as roleplays, groupwork, discussions, brainstorming etc. I was happy to read the Balloon debate here, we alsways try this task when we are talking about jobs for example.

Carmela Pillitteri, Italy

carmen_pillitteri — 2017-11-20 18:48:36 UTC

Thank you very much for sharing this book with us. I find it very interesting. I haven't finished it yet but I have downloaded it and will surely read it all. I noticed that the first value mentioned in the preface of the book is spirituality, and I believe that it would help us greatly to incorporate that value in our school practices, as a starting point. I'm thinking of ways in which I can draw my students attention to the fact that we are spiritual beings, made not only of flesh and bones, and that as we nourish our body we also need to feed healthy food to our minds and hearts. As a yoga teacher I have learnt that the first two steps in yoga practice are Yama (developing positive traits) and Niyama (avoiding hurtful behaviour), do's and don'ts. Before even getting to do some poses students of yoga are taught to behave 'properly'. I like the idea that values based education is not so much about 'being good' as it is about 'being happy'.
I also loved the fourth section of the book, with all its practical activities that can be easily used in class but also all those suggestions about how to put those values into practice inside and outside school. That is a great way to bring school closer to the families and to the community and to make students aware they are being given necessary tools to shape their own successful future.

Marco Sch, Germany

2017-11-21 15:45:58 UTC

Thank you for sharing this book with us. I wish to comment on the section dealing with how to inculcating values through continuous and comprehensive activities. Fostering values in our students is not possible within a split second, it is an on-going process. Before the learners can make a judgment they have to know the respective facts (knowledge), then they can be confronted with conflicting situations in order to pass on a judgment, based on that judgment they will develop faith in certain qualities/values, and can take action. Only if they actively start living out a new value you can say that it has been internalised. Furthermore, we should not forget about our responsibilities as teachers/role models. If the students respect our authority and consider us to be a role model they will most likely follow examples we set.

Nilay Kıymacı

nkiymaci — 2017-11-21 18:06:54 UTC

Thank you for sharing. I will use more value classes in my class.
Because values education is really a way out for every country. I think the most important point of departure is empathy. Our human will continue to exist as long as we have human values. We must treat each other with respect and love.

We should start teaching these values only at an early age. The students learn from these adults as they see these behaviors. Of course we should treat our little ones like that. This is where the family first learned. Then the school.

Elena Volpicella Italy

elena_volpe64 — 2017-11-21 18:52:16 UTC

Thanks for the different materials! A Handbook for teachers is an additional discovery about this course!
In any case, the important thing is the VBE approach, a way to reflect about our teaching, to integrate it on the curriculum, to offer our students the opportunity to grow with necessary values, taking on our variable society.
This is the point for me very interesting:
"Think positive‟ is a self-empowering concept that allows the student to have a positive self-image and values himself/herself and life in all forms

Anca Santimbrean, Romania

santimbreananca — 2017-11-21 21:09:33 UTC

lato’s Republic, Rousseau’s Émile and Dewey’s Democracy and Education – there’s a strong case to be made, as Dennis Hayes has, that these are the only books on education that teachers need to read.

But if I was about to enter the classroom as a teacher for the first time or was looking to improve my practice, I would probably want to read something with more practical advice on what I should be doing and, more importantly, on what I shouldn’t.

Much of what happens in a classroom is highly variable and hard to define, but over the last 10 years a wealth of books has sought to draw together evidence from other fields and provide a series of “best bets” on what might have the greatest impact on student learning. Here are just a few of them.

Why Don’t Students Like School? by Daniel Willingham

Understanding is remembering in disguise

In this eminently readable book, Willingham takes findings from cognitive science and applies them to the classroom in a straightforward and practical way. A central claim in this book is that while we are naturally curious, we are not naturally good at thinking and can only truly think about things we know. It also contains one of the best lines ever to feature in a book on education: “Memory is the residue of thought.”

The Hidden Lives of Learners by Graham Nuthall

Learning requires motivation, but motivation does not necessarily lead to learning

For Nuthall, three worlds exist in the classroom. First, the public world that is largely managed by the teacher and features easily-visible lesson activities and routines. Second, there is the “semi-private world of ongoing peer relationships” in which students foster and maintain social roles in the classroom. Last, there is the private world of the student’s own mind where learning actually takes. This book peels back the layers of those worlds and reveals many surprising findings.

Trivium 21c by Martin Robinson

In a true democracy all citizens share responsibility for their community

As a general model of what should happen in schools, this book has it all. Drawing on the classical triumvirate of grammar (knowledge), dialectic (questioning and debate) and rhetoric (expression), Robinson offers a model of education he wishes to see for his daughter and that seeks to draw on the past to anticipate an uncertain future.

Embedded Formative Assessment by Dylan Wiliam

The first fundamental principle of effective classroom feedback is that feedback should be more work for the recipient than the donor

Formative assessment is probably the most influential idea in schools today, and possibly the most misunderstood. In this book, the architect of formative assessment sets out the core principles of effective assessment but crucially applies them to the classroom with highly practical examples based on years of research in the field.

Seven Myths About Education by Daisy Christodoulou

If you only teach pupils using the knowledge they bring to the classroom, then you will reproduce educational inequalities

In this brief but explosive book, Christodoulou challenges several orthodoxies in education such as prioritising skills over knowledge, the claim that teacher-led instruction is passive, and why you can’t just look it up on Google. Whether or not you agree with everything in this book, every teacher should at least be acquainted with its arguments.

Özlem TÜRK,TURKEY

2017-11-21 21:57:57 UTC

The golden rules of humility: * Do to others as you would have them do to you. * Give without expecting to get anything back. * If we wish to be loved, we must first give love. * These rules are the same in Turkey .This book makes attetion to the same and different aspects of values .I like it because it look useful and it can be read again and again for a teaher

Nicoleta Gavrilă, România

2017-11-22 11:36:10 UTC

Thanks for the book. It's very interesting. We talk about values, but they have to live. If values are appropriated and lived in families, then we can say that our work has been fruitful.

I liked the fourth section of the book with all her practical activities that can be easily used in the classroom. And part two. I will try to discuss and work together with the pupils, in each class, one of the ten proposed values: think positive; be compassionate and do no harm; discover inner peace etc.

Carme Flores, Spain

cflores51 — 2017-11-26 17:11:59 UTC

As an English teacher, I feel I have to be capable of identifying the apparent or hidden references to values in all the set tasks, especially those coming from real oral or written texts - newspapers news, biographies of outstanding individuals such as Malala Yousafzai, stories with a values-based learning behind - and fiction too. I should be able to spot the values potential of my textbook materials and the materials I can collect on the website and "use them as reference points to initiate a discussion on values". A values centered approach will add meaning to my regular lessons and contribute to my students' empowerment for life.

techniharikag — 2024-07-31 07:24:03 UTC

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