The Character Collection: Have you ever wanted help really connecting with your students?
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In class, on the playing field, in the lunchroom, kids are learning from other kids all the time. Studies show students have significant retention and recall when they receive information in a peer-to-peer format.
This is the successful foundation of the Connect with Kids Character Collection - using real children to tell their own stories... reaching out to other students and helping teachers achieve the school climate and character education goals they have for their students.
The Character Collection includes:
- The Character Video Series 1 - An eight-video series that teaches 26* national character skills: Caring/Compassion, Citizenship, Civility, Convictions, Cooperation, Courage, Courtesy, Diligence, Freedom, Generosity, Helpfulness, Honesty, Honor, Integrity, Justice/Fairness, Kindness, Loyalty, Patience, Peace, Perseverance, Respect, Responsibility, Self-Control, Togetherness, Tolerance, Trustworthiness.
- Character skills are taught via seven-minute video segments (3 per videotape) featuring true student stories, parent interviews, expert advice, research, background and more.
- Curriculum Guide with more than 100 interactive and self-reflective student activities, including vocabulary lessons and discussion questions correlated to each character segment.
- State standards correlations for Language Arts, Social Studies and Health
- An assessment rubric to evaluate students’ performance and participation
- Character Parent Outreach, a six-video series with meeting resources to help parents (PTAs/PTOs, parent workshops) learn more about their children’s lives and reinforce the Connect with Kids classroom programs. Topics are: Cultural Divide (tolerance); Great Expectations (stress and anxiety); Invisible Weapons (bullying); Myth of Self-Esteem (self-esteem); Private Lives of Children (children’s privacy issues); When They Say Jump (peer pressure).
- Professional Development and Training for your staff
- Correlation Guides that allow teachers to help connect what's happening on television to what is happening in the classroom.
- One-year unlimited access to Connect with Kids WebSource, an online video and print library with video streaming, lesson plans, student activities, parent information, student resources and more.
- Ongoing educator support via the Connect with Kids toll-free hotline
* 24 character words in the Elementary Series (does not include "Civility" or "Convictions").
What They’re Saying
“I really liked that the kids were real - not some actors just saying words. It’s better when it’s real.”
– Kevin Gilli, middle school student
“There used to be more conflicts that were settled with violence. Now I have children come to me and we’re able to talk the problem out. The students are starting to recognize the signs of bullying and identify the behaviors as bullying and not just middle-school behavior.”
–Middle School Teacher, Kansas City
