1. Edit work and show the teacher a rough draft. 2. Select a book or finish reading a book checked out of the library. 3. Use the Word Processing program on the computer. 4. Use the Internet to research a topic for a school report. 5. Write Weekly Goals: Include Goals in the following areas:… Read more »
A RESPONSIBLE PERSON MEANS … 1. IDENTIFYING AND WRITING GOALS FOR MY LIFE. 2. PROCESSING MY EMOTIONS THROUGH MY BRAIN BEFORE RESPONDING. 3. FINDING A WAY RATHER THAN MAKING EXCUSES. 4. PUTTING SIGNS IN MY LIFE TO HELP ME REMEMBER WHAT TO DO. 5. DEVELOPING INTROSPECTIVE AND SELF REGULATION SKILLS FOR SELF IMPROVEMENT. 6. KEEPING… Read more »
All or portions of the following Pledge of Responsibility can also be used as a parent pledge or for stimulating classroom discussion for students who are ready to explore the qualities represented. We accept responsibility for children who sneak popsicles before supper, who erase holes in math workbooks, who can never find their shoes. And… Read more »
Sung to the tune of “It’s a Small World!” We are working hard to choose a better way. We want to be responsible in every way. We can work, we can share. We will show that we care. Making choices every day. Better choices every day. Better choices every day. Better choices every day. It’s… Read more »
This past fall semester, at Duke University, there were two sophomores who were taking Organic Chemistry and who did pretty well on all of the quizzes and the midterms and labs, etc., such that going into the final they had a solid ‘A’. These two friends were so confident going into the final that the… Read more »
Spring Texas Schools Focus on Responsibility Manag Principal Martha Knudsen of Anderson Elementary school , Lee Christian Principal of Ponderosa elementary school and Renee Coleman Principal of Thompson Elementary are some of the more recent Texas schools to join the Values in Action! Network . (currently over 3000 us schools in the US) Their schools… Read more »
The word responsibility is as pervasive a word as one can find. There isn’t a magazine, newspaper or TV program that doesn’t include the word – from fiscal responsibility to legal responsibility – from personal responsibility to social responsibility. It’s either parents’ responsibility or a child’s responsibility, your responsibility or my responsibility. People take full… Read more »
Sunny Hills HS Cheating Incident! A group of about 20 Sunny Hill High (Fullerton, Calif.) honor-roll students were reprimanded for cheating, when they insist all they did was work in a group (Anderson, L.A. TIMES, 4/11). The paper observes that the incident, which left 13 of the students disbarred from the National Honor Society, “falls… Read more »
Imagine there is a bank that credits your account each morning with $86,400. It carries over no balance from day to day. Every evening the bank deletes whatever part of the balance you failed to use during the day. What would you do? Draw out every cent, of course!!!!Each of us has such a bank…. Read more »
Student Letters to Students Invite your class to write letters to other students in the class for being Responsible and Respectful. When you use Gene Bedley’s WBR (Without Being Reminded) Program Cards you can not only have the student whose name is drawn out of the basket but you can invite the entire class to… Read more »
