What better way to reinforce character education traits than with a good book? As I've said numerous times, I love reading and love seeing students reading. So I thought why not increase character education awareness even more through reading? My school's library is directly across the hall from my office and I frequent it quite often. I'd noticed that book topics (examples: biographies, research, etc) had an identifying sticker on the spine of the book. So I thought of creating a sticker label that identifies that the book relates to character education. I then shared this vision with the librarian (who I can't rave enough about, she's fantastic) and she said that it would be a great idea to have.
I bought some orange color coding labels at Staples ($6.79) and used the
online template (it's a Word document) to type the words "Character Ed Book" on each label.
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| Labels |
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Typed labels using the template.
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The librarian gave me a list of books in the library that would fall into the character education category (there were lots of qualifying books). I put labels on some of the books, but we have parent volunteers who work in the library who put the rest on the books.
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| Books with Character Ed labels |
I think that this will be an awesome and easier way for students to read more about showing great character.
Do you have a way to identify books for character education at your school?
Ya, really great idea.. I think character education book will do some awesome changes in students circle.
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