Key Principles Of Respect

Respect

Overview:

Help your students’ identify what their strengths and areas of growth are, then help them set goals to turn their weaknesses into strengths. Help them to be assertive by sharing their opinions and beliefs. Understanding other peoples feeling will help them to develop relationships and learn the skills to develop lifelong relationships.

Gratitude, kindness, and engaged listening are three key principles of respect. Developing those principles will help your student achieve a high level of grit because they will become more open minded.

Gratitude:

People receive expressions of gratitude in two different ways. Agentic, personally competent and capable, or communal, connected to and valued by others. An agentic perspective feels self-efficient

Be able to go with the flow with what is happening despite what you think, but remember it is okay to clarify.

Activity:

Each activity will briefly familiarize one of the three principles of respect to the child. Using the knowledge you have learned from the overview above, correlate it with the matching activity to help your student recognize the importance of each principle.

Gratitude:

Define gratitude, showing appreciation and thankfulness.

Give your student a gratitude basket (pg 28-29) and a set of circles with words on them. Have them read the word or phrase in the circle and determine if it shows gratitude. If it does, cut it out and glue it onto their gratitude basket.

Discuss why it is important to express gratitude and help them understand that we can also show gratitude through our action. Share an example of actions they can do to show gratitude so they can relate it to their lives.

Example: Helping a friend or sibling clean up their toys shows that you are grateful for that person.

Kindness:

Use the children’s book Chrysanthemum by Kevin Hankes to help student’s visualize examples of what kindness is to others and