Character Education: Trustworthiness (Grade 8)
What role does trustworthiness play in relationships and life success? How can developing trustworthiness equip people as world citizens who contribute to the common good?
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Learners play a game that helps them identify qualities in others that make them trustworthy. They explore what it means to develop reciprocal trust within different communities. Students learn about public trust and identify characteristics of public figures that merit trust. They also discuss how they can use their own time, talent, and treasure to support trustworthy politicians, sports figures, corporations, and celebrities. Learners brainstorm the traits of a community of trusted learners, describing what it would look like if students and teachers in a classroom felt a high level of trust with each other. And finally, they compare two communities to which they belong using a Venn diagram and descriptive words related to trustworthiness.
Learners play a game that helps them identify qualities in others that make them trustworthy.
Students identify the different communities with which they engage. They explore what it means to develop reciprocal trust within different communities.
Students learn about public trust and identify characteristics of public figures that merit trust. They also discuss how they can use their own time, talent, and treasure to support trustworthy politicians, sports figures, corporations, and celebrities.
In this lesson, learners brainstorm the traits of a community of trusted learners, describing what it would look like if students and teachers in a classroom felt a high level of trust with each other. They have the opportunity to rate how their classroom community falls on a trust continuum.
Learners compare two communities to which they belong using a Venn diagram and descriptive words related to trustworthiness.