ACTIVITIES IN CLASSROOM
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classroom activities to develop morality
Majority of
childhood education experts agree that building a child’s character must being
at preschool age. During this period children can be easily molded and guided
to learn about what is right and what is wrong and to learn to live a value
filled life. They can easily absorb and follow what they see and hear from the
adults in their surroundings.
Thus
teaching positive values such as honesty courage responsibility, sympathy,
honesty, self –discipline, kindness, friendliness, tolerance, respect, love, justice
and pity will likely be more effective when the youngsters are at preschool age
than when they are at adolescent age.
At this
level teacher can use the following classroom activities to promote moral
development.
1): Telling and reading stories:
All children
enjoy listening to and reading folk tales, fairy tales, and stories where
animals are the main characters. Teachers can select such story books in Urdu
or in mother tongue
2):
learning and singing songs:
Most
children love learning and singing songs. Adolescents and adults also like
songs and singing especially if they can identify with the music. Through poems
and songs moral values can be indorsed.
3): Role
playing a story:
Majority of
children like to wear particular dress and acting out the roles of different
characters. For teaching the value of hard work truth empathy teacher can use
playing in classroom.
1): Characteristics
of elementary learners
In
elementary school child can easily put himself in another person’s shoes; can
show empathy.
Children are
able to reason things as an important reason for kindness.
Children try
to reason things out and increase their moral understanding. They often shout
it is not fair.
It should be
noted that elementary children will test boundaries as part of their moral
development. They are exploring where the line fails. This requires the adults
in their worlds to follow rules which are put in place. Failure to do so
results in moral ambiguity which the elementary child quickly picks up on
learning that we don’t really mean what we say. Not ideal when these children
are forming their sense of morality.
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