What Does Respect Look Like in School?
American School Counselor Association National Standard (ASCA):
Personal / Social Development
A. Students will acquire the knowledge, attitude, and interpersonal skills to help them
understand self and others
Materials
Lesson Assessment:
Essential Questions:
• Why it is important to recognize that respect is a human need?
• How important is it to respect others the way we need to be respected ourselves?
• What does a quality relationship looks like & how is it maintained?
Engagement (Hook):
Students are given an extreme make-believe situation where they are appointed i.e., as ambassadors of the US somewhere abroad, or recruited to go to war overseas, and they must leave everything behind, in the hands of a “respectable” agent. By secret ballot, students will select the most respectable students in their classroom. Students help tally the votes for boys and for girls.
Procedures
Instructor Procedures:
1. Introduce the purpose of the lesson and specific vocabulary.
2. Ask students to conceptualize the meaning of the word “respect.” Discuss the word “respectable.”
3. Give students directions to vote for the most respectable student in the classroom. Distribute the secret ballots. Select two students to tally the votes and present the 2nd runner up, the 1st runner up, and then
the absolute winner. Ties are allowed.
4. Ask students to describe what “respect” looks like?
• With your eyes
• With your words
• With your heart
• With your actions.
5. How could you show disrespect?
• With your eyes
• With your words
• With your heart
• With your actions
6. Distribute the “respect” survey and pencils (one per student)
7. Help students interpret the results.
8. Conduct a group discussion - Questions and answers. Ask students what would be the situation of their belongings if their “agent” were not respectable?
Lesson taken from: http://www.missouricareereducation.org/doc/guidelsn/PS2-Gr4-Unit1-Lesson1.pdf
Personal / Social Development
A. Students will acquire the knowledge, attitude, and interpersonal skills to help them
understand self and others
Materials
- Handout: Respect: Is It Worth It For Me?
- Scrap paper for secret ballot to select the three most respectful students in the classroom
- Pencils (one per student)
Lesson Assessment:
- Students will be able to conceptualize the value of respect for self, and give examples and non-examples. For non-examples, describe how things could have been done differently.
- Students will be able to conceptualize the value of respect for others, and give examples and non-examples. For non-examples, describe how things could have been done differently.
- Students will be able to role-play facial expressions and sounds of respect and disrespect
Essential Questions:
• Why it is important to recognize that respect is a human need?
• How important is it to respect others the way we need to be respected ourselves?
• What does a quality relationship looks like & how is it maintained?
Engagement (Hook):
Students are given an extreme make-believe situation where they are appointed i.e., as ambassadors of the US somewhere abroad, or recruited to go to war overseas, and they must leave everything behind, in the hands of a “respectable” agent. By secret ballot, students will select the most respectable students in their classroom. Students help tally the votes for boys and for girls.
Procedures
Instructor Procedures:
1. Introduce the purpose of the lesson and specific vocabulary.
2. Ask students to conceptualize the meaning of the word “respect.” Discuss the word “respectable.”
3. Give students directions to vote for the most respectable student in the classroom. Distribute the secret ballots. Select two students to tally the votes and present the 2nd runner up, the 1st runner up, and then
the absolute winner. Ties are allowed.
4. Ask students to describe what “respect” looks like?
• With your eyes
• With your words
• With your heart
• With your actions.
5. How could you show disrespect?
• With your eyes
• With your words
• With your heart
• With your actions
6. Distribute the “respect” survey and pencils (one per student)
7. Help students interpret the results.
8. Conduct a group discussion - Questions and answers. Ask students what would be the situation of their belongings if their “agent” were not respectable?
Lesson taken from: http://www.missouricareereducation.org/doc/guidelsn/PS2-Gr4-Unit1-Lesson1.pdf