Responsibility lessons

Last year I set a goal to have Brooklyn be able to get her Good Canine Citizen award. Well if you spend more than two minutes around my dog you will instantly know we didn't reach our goal. She is a catalyst of bad behavior. So this year my goal has been for her to walk in Nashville's Christmas Parade with other Nashville Pitties. I always do a lesson on goal setting, but what good is a goal if you aren't organized enough to ensure the steps are in place to meet it? My goal for Brooklyn was…

Teach responsibility in the classroom with Character Education. This posts shares a variety of tools you can use to encourage responsibility.

Looking for a fun responsibility counseling lesson? Use this one to help students understand what responsibility is and looks like. Great for responsibility lessons, responsibility counseling activities, responsibility small group counseling activities, and more.

Teaching Responsibility in the classroom is a critical element of classroom management and character education. Teach students to be responsible in your morning meetings, or using books and resources.

Poster definition for responsibility.

Each month, I introduce a new character trait to the students. In September it was Respect and now in October it is Responsibility. For the 2nd and 3rd graders, I did a classroom led discussion on different responsibilities they have. We talked about what responsibilities they have at home, at school, to themselves, and to the environment. At Home and At School seemed to be the easiest. However, the one that was the most difficult was the To Myself. It was hard for them to understand until

Check out these lesson plans for teaching responsibility in the classroom! These activities are engaging and full of visual support to meet your elementary and special education classrooms.

Next up for 4th grade's responsibility unit (part one was choices and consequences) was helping them understand what responsibilities are theirs versus their