What is Character Education?
Comprehensive character education addresses many tough issues in education while developing a positive school climate. It can be effective in any school setting, as our National Schools of Character demonstrate. Educators from this diverse array of schools have transformed their school cultures, reduced discipline referrals, increased academic achievement for all learners, developed global citizens, and improved job satisfaction and retention among teachers.
Character education includes and complements a broad range of educational approaches such as whole child education, service learning, social-emotional learning, and civic education. All share a commitment to helping young people become responsible, caring, and contributing citizens.
To be effective in schools, character education must involve everyone—school staff, parents, students, and community members—and be part of every school day. It must be integrated into the curriculum as well as school culture. When this happens and school communities unite around developing character, schools see amazing results.
(source: http://character.org/key-topics/what-is-character-education/)
Comprehensive character education addresses many tough issues in education while developing a positive school climate. It can be effective in any school setting, as our National Schools of Character demonstrate. Educators from this diverse array of schools have transformed their school cultures, reduced discipline referrals, increased academic achievement for all learners, developed global citizens, and improved job satisfaction and retention among teachers.
Character education includes and complements a broad range of educational approaches such as whole child education, service learning, social-emotional learning, and civic education. All share a commitment to helping young people become responsible, caring, and contributing citizens.
To be effective in schools, character education must involve everyone—school staff, parents, students, and community members—and be part of every school day. It must be integrated into the curriculum as well as school culture. When this happens and school communities unite around developing character, schools see amazing results.
(source: http://character.org/key-topics/what-is-character-education/)
CEP is a private initiative to establish the Philippine version of www.character.org a pioneering group in the US which has been working to benefit society through school reforms that address not only academics, but also moral, social, emotional, and ethical issues.
CEP has been providing the tools, methods, and strategies to empower teachers, parents and community members to help schools achieve the important goals of character development.
CEP Philippines is an International Affiliate character.org (formerly CEP U.S.) based in Washington DC, USA.
Mission/Vision
Vision: Citizens who are men and women of Character not only in the Philippines but in the Asia-Pacific Region.
Mission: CEP Philippines aims to provide opportunities for teachers, parents and the community to work together to push character education in schools and in the community.
This is done through the following means:
1. Conferences to enable key players to share best practices in effectively pushing character formation
2. Seminars to equip teachers, parents, students and everyone in the community to become more effective agents of character formation
3. Resources to be made available to teachers, schools to enable them to become effective agents of character education (e.g., Lesson Plans, articles, award-winning practices, etc.)
4. Accreditation of schools that have effectively been able to put in place a character education program following the 11 Principles of CEP (National Schools of Character Program)
CEP has been providing the tools, methods, and strategies to empower teachers, parents and community members to help schools achieve the important goals of character development.
CEP Philippines is an International Affiliate character.org (formerly CEP U.S.) based in Washington DC, USA.
Mission/Vision
Vision: Citizens who are men and women of Character not only in the Philippines but in the Asia-Pacific Region.
Mission: CEP Philippines aims to provide opportunities for teachers, parents and the community to work together to push character education in schools and in the community.
This is done through the following means:
1. Conferences to enable key players to share best practices in effectively pushing character formation
2. Seminars to equip teachers, parents, students and everyone in the community to become more effective agents of character formation
3. Resources to be made available to teachers, schools to enable them to become effective agents of character education (e.g., Lesson Plans, articles, award-winning practices, etc.)
4. Accreditation of schools that have effectively been able to put in place a character education program following the 11 Principles of CEP (National Schools of Character Program)