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Character Critters
1. Character Critters
A character education program for
preschool children and their parents
2. Brought to you today by:
Kim Jones
Rebecca White
COOPERATIVE EXTENSION SERVICE
LSU AGCENTER
3.
4. Why Early Character Education
for Preschoolers?
∗ Character education
has been identified
as a key need for
children
5. Why Early Character Education
for Preschoolers?
Research indicates the
foundation for moral
development is strongly
influenced in the very
early years of a
child's life by parents,
early teachers and
caregivers.
6. Program Overview
∗ Developed for
pre-school children
and their parents
∗ Designed to be
implemented by
volunteers
∗ Comprehensive in
design with 5
components
7. Program Components
∗ Children’s stories about character
∗ Parent-child interaction take-home
sheets
∗ Educational presentations for
parents
∗ Storybooks
∗ Program evaluation
8. Louisiana Vision for
Character Critters
For all Louisiana 3 - 5 year olds to hear the
Character Critter stories from teachers,
volunteers and/or their parents
9. Program Objectives
∗ Introduce children to character concepts
∗ Increase parents’ understanding of character
concepts
∗ Increase parents’ involvement in their children’s
character development
∗ Teachers, volunteer storytellers, and parents’ to tell
character stories to young children
∗ Increase volunteerism in communities
10. Character Critters Program
Impacts
∗ Thousands of free resource kits to teachers
∗ Thousands of teachers and volunteers trained
∗ Educational Website developed
∗ Over 160,000 parents of young children
reached with storybooks
∗ Hundreds of thousands of young children
have heard Character Critters stories
11. Character Critters Program
Impacts -Teachers
∗ Learned activities to help with their student’s development
∗ Learned to teach character concepts to their students
∗ Are conducting character activities for their students
12. Character Critters Program Impacts -
Caregivers and Parents
∗ Childcare providers learned to teach concepts of character
∗ Parents learned activities to help with their child’s’
development
∗ Parents indicated they will teach the traits of character
32. How you can help!
∗ Use the Character Critters resources, your enhancement
materials and ideas with your children
∗ Send home the parent-child take-home sheets
∗ Participate in the Character Critters evaluation and return
to your local LSU AgCenter agent who will send to Dr.
Rebecca White
33. Website: www.lsuagcenter.com
For more information contact:
Kim Jones
Instructor, Department of 4-H Youth Development
Email: kjones@agcenter.lsu.edu
(225) 578-2196
Rebecca White, Ph.D.
Professor, Organization Development and Evaluation
Email: bwhite@agcenter.lsu.edu
(225) 578-3921
Hinweis der Redaktion
Parents, teachers and caregivers strongly influence the foundation for moral development in the very early years of a child's life.
Over 5000 resource kits provided free to volunteers Over 7800 volunteers trained/using resources Over 97,000 preschool children heard character themed stories from volunteers Over 99,000 parents of preschoolers received storybooks with character theme Educational website developed
100 % of 197 teachers learned activities to help with their student’s emotional and social development and to teach character concepts to their students 99 % of 197 teachers indicated they will conduct character activities for their students Vast majority of teachers are using the resources in their classrooms with their students
87% of 675 childcare providers reported they learned to teach the concepts of character 99 % of 342 parents stated they learned activities that will help with their child’s’ development 93 % of 340 parents reported they will teach the 6 traits of character to their children