Indiana
Indiana
FEBRUARY
Honesty: Fairness and truthfulness in word and action.
Classroom Application:
* Review Definition.
* Discuss how honesty was recently demonstrated by classmates or family.
* Have students make a list of ways they can demonstrate honesty.
* Discuss recent situations in which it was a challenge to be honest.
* Tell a short story about how one "lie" can lead to another.
* Discuss the consequences of "small" lies.
* Make a list of "types" of academic dishonesty (ie: cheating on tests, changing a grade, plagiarism, forging a signature).
* Read books that are good examples of being honest (ie: The Boy Who Cried Wolf, Aesop, Pinocchio, Carlo Collodi, A Big Fat Enormous Lie, Marjorie Weinman).
Workplace Application:
* Place "Community of Character" posters in employee break rooms, near time clocks, HR department and other employee gathering areas or customer areas.
* Emphasize character trait of the month by placing definitions on payroll checks, hold contests within your place of employment to encourage the trait of the month, discuss the program and/or trait at your staff meetings.
* Talk to employees/coworkers about how important honesty is and the consequences of dishonesty in the workplace.
* Lead by example and show your honesty and integrity.
* Remind your employees of all the forms of dishonesty: lying (calling in when not really sick), cheating (not clocking in correctly, taking long lunches), misleading others, misrepresentation, doing personal business on company time, stealing (office supplies).
Home Application
* Discuss honesty with your family. Use the calendar provided for discussion ideas and talk to your kids about what it means to be honest.
* Demonstrate that you value honesty and reward honest efforts with school work even if it doesn't produce "A" work.
* Lead by example.
* Consider hypothetical choices: What would you do if…? Help your child make good, honest decisions.
* Select an article from a newspaper or magazine and analyze it for honesty.
For more information about our "Community of Character" program, please contact 765.472.2400 or write to Community of Character, 35 S. Broadway, Peru, IN, 46970.
* Review Definition.
* Discuss how honesty was recently demonstrated by classmates or family.
* Have students make a list of ways they can demonstrate honesty.
* Discuss recent situations in which it was a challenge to be honest.
* Tell a short story about how one "lie" can lead to another.
* Discuss the consequences of "small" lies.
* Make a list of "types" of academic dishonesty (ie: cheating on tests, changing a grade, plagiarism, forging a signature).
* Read books that are good examples of being honest (ie: The Boy Who Cried Wolf, Aesop, Pinocchio, Carlo Collodi, A Big Fat Enormous Lie, Marjorie Weinman).
Workplace Application:
* Place "Community of Character" posters in employee break rooms, near time clocks, HR department and other employee gathering areas or customer areas.
* Emphasize character trait of the month by placing definitions on payroll checks, hold contests within your place of employment to encourage the trait of the month, discuss the program and/or trait at your staff meetings.
* Talk to employees/coworkers about how important honesty is and the consequences of dishonesty in the workplace.
* Lead by example and show your honesty and integrity.
* Remind your employees of all the forms of dishonesty: lying (calling in when not really sick), cheating (not clocking in correctly, taking long lunches), misleading others, misrepresentation, doing personal business on company time, stealing (office supplies).
Home Application
* Discuss honesty with your family. Use the calendar provided for discussion ideas and talk to your kids about what it means to be honest.
* Demonstrate that you value honesty and reward honest efforts with school work even if it doesn't produce "A" work.
* Lead by example.
* Consider hypothetical choices: What would you do if…? Help your child make good, honest decisions.
* Select an article from a newspaper or magazine and analyze it for honesty.
For more information about our "Community of Character" program, please contact 765.472.2400 or write to Community of Character, 35 S. Broadway, Peru, IN, 46970.