One very important benefit of having a character education program in schools is that it helps students learn how to manage their own feelings and properly deal with them. Students who came from homes with problematic environment might find it hard to maximize learning despite them being very smart.
Character education provide students the necessary tools to perform well in the classroom environment. It also gives them the skills they need to understand the actual content they are learning. For example, because character education is about exploring feelings and motivations, parallel to good literature wich is also about feelings, students who are able to analyze feelings finds it easy to figure out what the literature wants to convey. This means character education is able to help students become critical thinkers and enjoy literature and its deepest meanings.
Character education also provides avenue for problem solving. Because the student knows how to analyze their own selves and experiences, they gain skills in analyzing problems, setting goals, and seeing long-term and short-term consequences of actions that would be taken. This skill is vital to studying history, culture, mathematics, and literature.
This is also helpful to various science projects which they would surely have plenty of. Character education enables to help students enhance their planning and organizing skills which are all crucial to doing science experiments. Science information should be organized in a logical manner and this can be learned in character education programs as one is trained to utilize good planning skills by appropriate observation and correct ordering of data, particularly in a logical manner.
As you will see, character education plays a very crucial role if a student is to be successful in learning. Thus, it should be integrated to all subjects beside that it is already given as a separate subject taught in schools.
References:
Character Education Links: Program and Curricula. Retrieved from http://www.ethics.org/resources/links-character-development.asp?aid=1014 on September 10, 2014
Davis, Michael (2003). “What’s Wrong with Character Education?”. American Journal of Education 110: 32.
J. Hunter (2001). Leading Children Beyond Good and Evil. Retrieved from http://www.leaderu.com/ftissues/ft0005/articles/hunter.html on September 20, 201
By: Lilibeth G. Navoa | Teacher I | Alauli Elementary School | Pilar, Bataan
