The Safe and Caring SchoolsTM Program at Saint Charles School
Enhancing our Students' Social, Emotional, Psychological, Moral and Academic Development
April: The Power to Choose
Making good choices is an essential character trait and lifelong skill, especially for today's youth. Our students are challenged, tempted, and bullied, and have more opportunities to get into trouble than ever before. Children need to be taught about using the power of their minds in a positive way in order to make the right choices in their lives.
For this month's theme: The Power to Choose, topics we will focus on are:
- Making Choices
- Consequences
- Celebrating Success
Theme Objectives
- Students will learn about the importance of making the right choices.
- Students will learn what it means to be responsible for their own actions.
- Students will practice treating people with fairness and respect.
Some Tips to Enforce this Month's Theme
Among the key sources of anger in children are stress, frustration, feeling rejected, and isolated. Once anger is recognized as a normal human emotion, we need to teach how to manage it and how to channel it in a useful and productive way. Children also need to learn that they have the power to respond to conflict in constructive ways. In other words, they must be taught that they have the power to Choose. Children whose anger flares in response to daily conflict are a significant challenge in any classroom. Although it seems like an impossible task at times, violence is a learned behavior, and with practice and positive reinforcement, students can learn to manage their anger and make better choices.