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A letter to the Educators
Dear Educators,
As we hope you are aware, you are an integral component of this program’s success.
Your knowledge of your students and classroom leadership is what will help your
students fully comprehend these lessons and be able to apply them in their futures.
Many of these lessons are based around discussions. In these conversations, it will be
important for you to model thinking through positive decision making. It will also be
important for your students to have multiple opportunities for discourse.
That being said, we want to encourage you to use your professional judgment when
delivering these instructions. Our aim is to help students fully understand the
differences between ‘right and wrong’ and to be able to make choices with positive
outcomes. As you know, the lessons with the most ‘staying power’ are the ones where
our students are fully engaged. Feel free to add in your creativity to make these lessons
more engaging and truly feel like ‘real-world’ experiences for your students.
Some ideas to further engage your students in the lessons:
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Swap out character names for your student’s names to the ‘scenario’ cards once
you’ve copied the slide deck.
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Once copied, you can adjust the ‘scenarios’ to fit incidents in your classroom or
that you’ve experienced together
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Swap out suggested texts for other beloved books. *Keep the same theme in
mind to make sure the lesson objective is not lost. *note that you may need to alter
some anchor chart in some lessons *
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Add in additional/other sharing activities that your class loves or that suit your
management style
Additionally, throughout the lessons you will periodically see asterisks *. These are
places where we’ve highlighted instructional suggestions.
You are an extremely important person in the lives of your students, we thank you for
being a positive role model and advocate for our children. We know how valuable your
instructional time is, so we thank you again for taking some of it to teach this program
with integrity. We hope you enjoy embarking on this journey with your class!
Best regards,
Ethics 4 Kids Team