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Purpose:
The students will create a plan that includes steps and strategies for practicing self-discipline in an effort to reach a goal.
Duration:
One 20-minute lesson
Objectives:
The learner will:
- identify characteristics of self-discipline in profiles of successful people.
- list ways self-discipline leads to success.
- brainstorm strategies for becoming self-disciplined.
Service Experience:
This character education mini-lesson is not intended to be a service learning lesson or to meet the K-12 Service-Learning Standards for Quality Practice. The character education units will be most effective when taught in conjunction with a student-designed service project that provides a real world setting in which students can develop and practice good character and leadership skills. For ideas and suggestions for organizing service events go to www.generationon.org.
Instructional Procedure(s):
- Depending on the teacher choice made in Lesson Three, either
Option One: Ask each group to present a summary of the information about their person and the responses to questions 1, 2, and 3 from Lesson Three, Handout Two: Profiles in Self-Discipline Questions
or
Option Two: Select a second profile to read and discuss (using Lesson Three, Handout Two: Profiles in Self-Discipline Discussion Questions ) as a whole class.
- At the end of the presentations/discussions, revisit the information on the charts developed in Lessons One and Two that compared and contrasted discipline with self-discipline.
- As a whole class, discuss the following questions:
How does a person move from being disciplined to being self-disciplined?
What are some of the steps and motivations to self-discipline?
Teacher Note: in order to make the discussion concrete, use a relevant example (stop biting fingernails, learn to skateboard, improve grades, be more organized) and ask the students to list the steps to attaining that goal. The plan should be student generated, but might include some of these steps: setting a goal, making a commitment, self-talk or encouragement, listing the steps or stategies needed to reach the goal, sharing the plan with someone who can help hold you accountable, keeping a log or record of success. - Discuss the role of will power [the ability to begin on a plan or course of action] and perseverance [the ability to continue with a task or plan, even when you want to quit] in the plan.
- Write the plan steps or stratgeies on a display area and save it for the next lesson.
- Tell the students that for the next lesson they will need to decide on one goal they want to be more self-disciplined about and determine a plan to do it, using the steps they just identified.
School/Home Connection:
Ask the students to decide on one personal goal they want to be more self-disciplined about reaching. Suggest that they might want to discuss this goal with their parent/guardian.
Lesson Developed By:
Betsy FlikkemaAssociate Director
Learning to Give
Barbara Dillbeck
Director
Learning to Give
Handouts:
Unit Contents:
Overview:Character Education: Self-Discipline (Grade 6) Summary
Lessons:
- 1.
- And The Question Is?
- 2.
- Discipline vs. Self-Discipline
- 3.
- Profiles of Self-Discipline
- 4.
- Becoming Self-Disciplined
- 5.
- Just Doing It!
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