3. Compassion/Empathy
When I show compassion
I try to understand…
Exactly how you are feeling…
I lend a helping hand.
I want to know if I can help.
I’m there if you are sad.
I listen very carefully…
We’re friends and I am glad!
I want to be compassionate.
I try to help and care.
Compassion starts inside us…
And reaches everywhere.
4. What to say to students:
Compassion means that
you try to understand and
care about someone who
needs help. It is forgiving
that person and being kind
because he or she is
important to you.
Sometimes you have to
forgive someone who hurt
you.
Compassion is feeling
someone’s pain if that
person is in trouble-even if
you don’t know the person.
5. How Can I Show It?
When you are compassionate,
you are a good listener and that
shows other people that you
care. You use kind words when
someone is sad or in trouble.
When you show compassion, you
let others know that they are not
alone and you try to be
understanding and patient. You
show forgiveness if a person has
hurt you because you know how
badly that person is feeling.
When you have compassion, you
notice when someone needs
help. You reach out, even outside
your community.
6. Respect
When you show respect to others…
In all you say and do.
The respect that you have offered…
Will be given back to you.
How do you show respect , you ask?
Here’s something I have learned…
Try to always give to people
The respect that they have earned.
Speak with courtesy and kindness…
And honor rules- with pride.
Listen, learn, and treat others well…
Self-respect will grow inside!
7. What to say to students:
Respect involves treating people
with courtesy and is reflected
In how we speak and how we
treat other people’s possessions.
Respect also involves honoring
others and caring for their
rights. It is important to respect
elders-your parents,
grandparents, and teachers. Self
respect means protecting
yourself, your own rights and
dignity as a human.
8. How Can I Show It?
When you show respect, you treat
others as you would like to be
treated. You ask before using
someone else’s things, and treat
other’s homes and possessions as if
they were your own.
When you are respectful, you
express strong feelings courteously,
especially when speaking to adults
and elders. You wait to speak and do not
interrupt. Honoring the rules of your
family, school and community shows
respect.
Self-respect is shown when you
act with pride, value yourself and stand
up for yourself.
9. Honesty
Honesty means always telling the truth…
Even when it’s hard for you.
Honesty is making that choice every day…
Because it’s the right thing to do!
Honest people always say what they mean…
And mean every word they say.
Best friends who are honest tell you the truth…
They won’t let you down- no way!
To be a good friend, you need to be honest…
With yourself and others too.
Don’t be afraid to speak up and be heard…
Honest words are always true.
10. What to say to students:
Honesty means telling the
truth no matter what
happens. It involves
truthfulness and courage
because you are speaking
the truth even when it could
disappoint or upset
someone.
People who are honest
means doing what you say
you will do.
11. How Can I Show It?
When you are honest your actions
match your words and people know
it. Displaying honesty involves
trustworthiness. People know they
can trust you to tell the truth
because you don’t lie, cheat or steal.
People believe a person who is
honest. You practice honesty by not
pretending to yourself that
something doesn’t matter when it
really does. When you are honest
you are true to yourself and you
make promises you can keep. You
admit your mistakes.
12. Summary Statement
During this course I found that my core personal
values are respect, honesty, and empathy. I grew
up with a lot of negativism from family
members, school officials, and just a lot of bad
experiences.
All of my trials I had made me a stronger person.
They made me become the passionate, honest and
respectful person that I am towards children and
adults.
In my classroom I model respect and honesty. I never tell
my children that I am going
To do something and do not follow through with it
because I know how it feels to be
promised something and it be broken. I raised my
children the same way and they
remember their upbringing and they are raising their
children the same way.
13. Summary Cont.
In the years to follow, I would like to find myself
reaching my lifelong goal as a caring, loving and
passionate educator who believes that Character
Education is an important key for children to
become adults who can survive in this chaotic
world.
My next goal is to find ways to include parents
and family in their children’s education. That is my
Soap box. I have found out in the few years I have
been in education that children perform so much
Better when their parents or primary caregiver is
Involved in what they are learning in school.
Train a child in the way he should go, and when
he is old he will not turn from it. Proverbs 22: 6
