1. CHARACTER COUNTS!®
Everywhere, All the Time…

2. Quotes
Activity
Read the quotes and select one
that you like.
Reflect : why do you like it?
Share your reflection with the
person next to your right

3. Agenda
Objectives – Share the framework of
Character Counts program.
Expectations – interactive discussion, lots of
questions, share your ideas and experiences
Trust the process – please participate fully

4. MISION CAG
PROGRAMA DE VALORES
«Nuestra misión es conferir a los alumnos Nuestro PROGRAMA DE VALORES
del PODER para alcanzar su MAXIMO refuerza la MISION CAG, el cual,
POTENCIAL e INSPIRARLOS a llevar integrado al currículo busca:
VIDAS SIGNIFICATIVAS como miembros
RESPONSABLES de una SOCIEDAD
GLOBAL»
 Valorar el aprendizaje continuo
Creemos en: como fuente de conocimiento y
 Las características y necesidades bienestar para toda la vida.
únicas de nuestros alumnos  Utilizar en forma responsable las
(intelectuales, sociales, emocionales y destrezas tecnológicas y de
físicas) comunicación que contribuyen a su
aprendizaje.
 El respeto por la diversidad religiosa,
 Mostrar un sentido de conciencia y
política, social y cultural cuidado de su medio ambiente.
 El fortalecimiento de los rasgos de  Demostrar respeto, comprensión y
carácter positivo y valores éticos aprecio por la diversidad cultural
 La responsabilidad compartida de toda  Desarrollar hábitos y actitudes que
la comunidad educativa para alcanzar fomenten un ambiente físico y
estándares de excelencia en todos los emocional seguro en la comunidad
educativa.
aspectos de sus vidas

5. How did Character
Counts start?
Josephson Institute and
Programs
Aspen Declaration on
Character Education
The Six Pillars

6. People do not automatically develop good moral character;
therefore, conscientious efforts must be made to instruct
young people in the values and abilities necessary for moral
decision making and conduct. - Aspen Declaration
.

7. Trustworthiness
Respect
Responsibility
Fairness
Caring
Citizenship

8. Six Pillars of Character
 TRUSTWORTHINESS – honesty, integrity,
promise-keeping, loyalty
 RESPECT – courtesy, nonviolence, tolerance,
autonomy
 RESPONSIBILITY – duty, accountability, pursuit
of excellence, self-restraint
 FAIRNESS – openness, consistency, impartiality
 CARING – kindness, compassion, empathy
 CITIZENSHIP – civic virtue, lawfulness, common
good

9. My plate is already full!

10. Character is
the plate

11. To educate a child in the mind but not the morals is to
educate a menace to society. - Theodore Roosevelt

12. Poster Activity
• Step 1: Divide paper in half. On one side list the words
represented in your pillar; on the other side draw the symbols
that represent those words on your poster.
• Step 2: Choose 4 words that best represent your pillar; choose
1 symbol.
• Step 3: Share your poster with the rest of the group

13. Trustworthiness
• Promise Keeping
Integrity
• Honesty
Honesty
• Integrity
Promise-Keeping
• Loyalty
Loyalty

14. Balloon Game
The balloon represents a lie.
When I say go, toss the balloon in the air and try
to keep it in the air. If the balloon touches the
ground, your lie has been discovered and you’re
out.

15. • Treating people with respect means letting them know
that:
• Their safety and happiness matter
• They’re important and worthy simply because they’re
fellow human beings
• Live by the Golden Rule

16. P A, K, Q, J
O
P 10, 9, 8
U
L 7, 6, 5
A
R 4, 3, 2

17. Responsibility
• Responsibility requires that you
recognize what you do — and don’t
do — matters.

18. Activity
Video
Los niños hacen lo que ven
What was your reactions about this video?
What does your reactions say about your
role in this process?

19. • Process – How we make decisions.
• The moral obligation is to make decisions fairly. This is
called procedural fairness.
• Results – What we decide (the substance of the decision).
The consequences or benefits should be fair.
• The moral obligation is to make fair decisions. This is
called substantive fairness.

20. Fairness Videos
Susan Boyle

21. Caring
Caring – and the virtues
of compassion, kindness,
benevolence, altruism,
charity, generosity, and
sharing – is the heart of
ethics.

22. Pepper Experiment
 Step 1: Sprinkle the pepper in the water.
 Step 2: Hold the soap in the middle of the pepper.
 Step 3: Pour the sugar in the center of the water.

23. Citizenship
• Fulfill your civic duties.
• Do your share.
• Respect authority.
• Pursue civic virtues

24. Citizenship Videos
Lead India Tree

25. Teach Enforce
 Explain that success  Praise good behavior.
and happiness depend
 Discourage bad behavior.
on who you are inside.
 Impose fair and consistent
 Teach the difference
consequences – even
between right and
when difficult or costly to
wrong using the Six
do so – and follow through.
Pillars of Character as
your guide.

26. Advocate Model
 Encourage your  Ensure that your own
youngster to live up to behavior sends the
the Six Pillars of right messages and
Character – reinforces the right
everywhere, all the thing.
time!  Be accountable.
 Tell stories of people
you know who have
acted with character.

27. What Do You Want Most for Your
Children?

28. Leprechaun Test
If you saved the life of a leprechaun and he
granted you one wish for your children, what
would you choose?
• Enormous wealth
• Fabulous good looks
• Superb athletic ability
• Great fame
• Genuine happiness

29. Leprechaun Test
Okay, the leprechaun says, pick the quality
you think is most likely to produce genuine
happiness:
• Enormous wealth
• Fabulous good looks
• Superb athletic ability
• Great fame
• Deep and enduring personal
relationships

30. Leprechaun Test
Finally, he says, then you pick the quality most
likely to produce deep and enduring personal
relationships.
• Enormous wealth
• Fabulous good looks
• Superb athletic ability
• Great fame
• Good character – trustworthiness, respect,
responsibility, fairness, caring and
citizenship

31. Leprechaun Test
Before you decide, think about this: Can you
imagine having a deep and enduring personal
relationship with someone who:
• You cannot trust?
• Does not treat you with respect?
• You can’t count on because he/she is
irresponsible?
• Is consistently unfair?
• Is totally selfish; never thinks of others?

32. Leprechaun Lesson
 Having meaningful and enduring
personal relationships is the surest
road to happiness and having good
character is the surest road to good
relationships.
 Therefore, good character is the
surest road to happiness.

33. CHARACTER COUNTS!®
Everywhere, All the Time…