Teaching the Digital Generation with Impact: Teachers as Agents of Character Formation and Tried-and-Tested Strategies That Form Students’ Character: Empathy, Resilience and Grit

3. By Mann Rentoy
Teaching the Digital Generation with Impact:
Teachers as Agents of Formation

4. About the Speaker
Mann M. Rentoy

5. - a lecturer from the
University of Asia and the
Pacific (UA&P), and a Latin
teacher in Bannister
Academy, a new high school
in Libis, Quezon City.

6. - a graduate of the
University of Santo
Tomas (UST) where
he earned a double-
degree in AB
Journalism and AB
Literature, and an
MA in Creative
Writing. At present,
he is finishing his
PhD studies in the
same university.

7. - the Founding
Executive Director
of PAREF
Westbridge School
in Iloilo City.

8. - was in the first batch of graduates of PAREF
Southridge School, where he also taught for
15 years, occupying various posts including
Principal of Intermediate School, Vice-
Principal of High School and Department
Head of Religion.

9. - Founding Director for Leadership of
“Character Education Partnership
Philippines”, an international affiliate of
CEP in Washington, DC, USA, which
provides training and resources related to
Character Formation Program in schools.

11. By Mann Rentoy
Teaching the Digital Generation with Impact:
Teachers as Agents of Formation

12. Raising Children
of Character in a
Wired World

14. “For the first
time we are
preparing
children for a
future we
cannot clearly
describe.”
- David Warlick
Steve Wheeler, University of Plymouth, 2011

15. The 21st Century isn’t
“coming”
– it’s here.

19. CCFA Principles
• Every Teacher is a Character Formator
• Not just another subject
• Education is not just covering curriculum
• No other better way to teach character than
through the power of our example
• The teacher is the most important teaching
tool
• The school is only as good as its teachers.

20. Assault on Today’s Children
Video
GamesToday’s
Child
Violence
in Media
PornographyMaterialism
Hedonism

21. Assault on Today’s Children
Religious Indifference
False
Heroes
Softness
Divorce Alcoholism
Moral
Relativism
Drug
Addiction

22. Mindsets that have
been shaped by
SOCIAL MEDIA

23. SOCIAL MEDIA CAPITAL OF
THE WORLD

27. Highly
Sexualized
Culture

28. Movies
TV Shows
MTVs
Billboards
Magazines
Websites
Twitter
Apps

29. Rise in suicide cases
Teenage Pregnancies

34. Crisis in the
Development
of Empathy
Factors

35. •Empathy is the ability to
understand and share
another person’s feelings
and emotions. It is essential
to building good
relationships, both at work
and in personal life.

37. Crisis in the
Development
of Empathy

38. 1. Pressure of
“earning more”
leaves many
parents
emotionally
“unavailable”

39. 2. Addiction to
Gadgets

41. Sense of
Entitlement

46. 3. Barrage of
Cruel Media
Images

52. 4. Rise of
Narcissism

54. LOGO
PAGEANTRY
OF VANITY

56. Selfie
FB Live
Followers
Likes

57. Crowdsource
IMO
Feelings

58. Constant
Connection
(ICYMI)
Deadly Digital
Distraction

59. Text Tilt Trauma
Bottomless Endless
Scrolling
Phantom Limb
Syndrome

60. Phoment

66. Anonymity of
the Screen

67. Substitute Brain
Patience
Empathy
Focus
Concentration
Attention Span
Comprehension
Memory

68. Substitute Brain
Thinking in Headlines
Need for Instant
Response
(Instant Gratification)
Inability to Memorize

69. The average eight- to eighteen-year-old
plugged in to a digital media
device about 7 hours and 38
minutes a day
(that doesn’t count time spent texting or
talking on cell phones).

70. Almost 75 percent of children aged
eight and younger have access to
some type of “smart” mobile device
at home.

71. Preschoolers spend 4.6 hours per day
using screen media, and almost
40 percent of two- to four-year-olds use
a smartphone, MP3 player, or tablet.

72. A new study found that 30 percent of
children first play with mobile devices when
they’re in diapers.

73. A survey by the Center for the Digital Future
found that the percentage of parents who
say they now spend less time
socializing as a family tripledin just two
years.

74. Parents also say that the loss
of family time is largely due
to the increase of internet
time.

75. Digital
Detoxification

76. DELETE
TOXIC PEOPLE,
PAGES & APPS

77. AIRPLANE MODE
is not just for
Airplanes.

78. LASER Focus
REST for You & Your Gadget

79. EMBRACE
Downtime
Because the best
things in life do
not happen
Online.

82. THEIR SOCIAL CIRCLES – NOT
LIMITED BY GEOGRAPHY
THEY WANT TO WORK ABROAD.
DEFINITION OF LOVE: UNDEFINABLE,
MAGIC, NO GENDER, NO RISK;
DOESN’T CHOOSE, DOESN’T
CHANGE

83. THEY ARE EXPOSED TO ALL THE
DISCUSSION OF THE OLD
PORNOGRAPHY: NUMBER 1
TRAFFIC ACCORDING TO
SMART

84. PREMATURE ADULTHOOD:
HOMOPHOBIA, INEQUALITY,
CORRUPTION, ETC.
THEY HAVE SENSE OF
“KNOWLEDGE” FAR BEYOND THEIR
YEARS

85. INTERNET-SMART
THEY OVERESTIMATE
KNOWLEDGE, AND
UNDERESTIMATE EXPERIENCE

86. THEY TEND TO PARROT
WHATEVER THEY READ ARTICLES
ONLINE AND (FORCE) APPLY IT
TO THEIR LIVES

87. YOUNG EMPOWERED EARNERS
CAN EARN EVEN AT SUCH A
YOUNG AGE

88. GREATER PURPOSE
LOVE WINS
CHANGE.ORG
GREEN PRACTICES: BECAUSE OF
HISTORICAL EVENTS THEY WITNESSED
MAJORITY DO NOT APPROVE OF
DIVORCE (69%)

89. THEY WANT TO SEE THE TRUE
PERSON
CELEBRITIES AND ROLE MODELS
THEY LIKE ARE YOUNG AND
REAL

90. Principle
uInternet addiction is
damaging.

93. Teach the great
character strengths:
•By your example
•By your direction
•By your verbal explanations

94. By Mann Rentoy
Teaching the Digital Generation with Impact:
Teachers as Agents of Formation

95. Tried-and-Tested Strategies That
Form Students’ Character:
Empathy, Resilience and Grit

99. If kids come to us from strong,
healthy functioning families, it
makes our job easier. If they do
not come to us from strong,
healthy, functioning families, it
makes our job more important.

100. Teachers affect eternity; no one
can tell where their influence
stops.
Henry Brooks Adams

101. Children are like wet cement,
whatever falls on them makes an
impression.
- Haim Ginott

102. Teaching kids to count is fine,
but teaching them what
counts is best.
-Bob Talbert

103. The mediocre teacher tells. The
good teacher explains. The
superior teacher demonstrates.
The great teacher inspires.
-William A. Ward

104. Education is not the filling of a
pail, but the lighting of a fire.
-William Butler Yeats

105. As a general rule, teachers
teach more by what they are
than by what they say.

107. LOGO
Now more than ever,
this work of formation is
urgent and important.

108. Through history, 3 great
social institutions have
shared the work of shaping
character:
¨ Home
¨ School
¨ Religion

109. The Primacy of Parents
n The family is the first
school of virtue.

110. WHY IS PARENTING HARDER
THAN EVER?
1. Society has changed.
2. Families have changed.
3. The peer group has
changed.

111. BIG IDEA
nA societal environment that
does not encourage good
character means parents
and teachers have to be
more vigilant and more
intentional than in past
generations.

112. BIG IDEA
nTo develop good character
in today’s world, families
and schools must be
countercultural.

113. Direct and indirect
instruction

114. Introducing the youth
to appropriate role
models

115. Emilio Advincula

116. Maria Fe Sotelo

119. LOGO
Raise a Generation of
Children with
BiG HEARTS

120. Kesz Valdez

122. Nick Vuijic

123. LOGO
IN THE END
teachers
HAVE TO BE THEIR
HEROES!

124. “The first step in
teaching moral
intelligence is by being a
moral example”
-Michelle Borba

148. Rise in suicide cases
Depression
Age of Instant Gratification
Sense of Entitlement
Privileged Mindset
Narcissism

156. •Empathy is the ability to
understand and share another
person’s feelings and emotions. It
is essential to building good
relationships, both at work and
in personal life.

159. Identifying with
and feeling
other people’s
concerns

161. Step 1: Foster awareness
and build an Emotional
Vocabulary
Step 2: Enhance Sensitivity
to the Feelings of Others
Step 3: Develop Empathy for
Another Person’s Point of
View

162. Step 1: Foster
awareness and
build an Emotional
Vocabulary

163. How to Listen with Empathy
Tune in to your child’s feelings
and listen with empathy
Acknowledge what is causing
the emotion
Label how the child is feeling
Kindle a resolution for the child’s
Need

170. Step 2: Enhance
Sensitivity to the
Feelings of Others

171. Six Simple
Ways to
Nurture Kids’
Sensitivity

172. 1. Praise sensitive, kind
actions
2. Show the effect of
sensitivity
3. Draw attention to
nonverbal feeling
cues

173. 4. Ask often, “How does
he feel?”
5. Use the formula
“feels + needs”
6. Share why you feel
the way you do.

174. Five Fun Ways to Help Kids
Read Nonverbal Emotions
1. Play “Feeling Charades”
2. Make Comic Mood
Characters
3. Read with Feeling
4. Watch Silent TV
5. Hold a Feeling Lookout

175. Step 1: Foster awareness
and build an Emotional
Vocabulary
Step 2: Enhance Sensitivity
to the Feelings of Others
Step 3: Develop Empathy for
Another Person’s Point of
View

176. Step 3: Develop
Empathy for
Another Person’s
Point of View

177. Three Simple Ways to
Increase Children’s Ability to
Take Different Perspectives
1. Switch Roles to Feel the
Other Side
2. Walk in My Shoes
3. Imagine How the Person
Feels

178. Principle
STo educate a person in mind
and not in morals is to
educate a menace to society.
- Theodore Roosevelt

180. 1. Commit to Raising A
Moral Child
Research: parents who feel
strongly about their kids turning
out morally usually succeed
because they committed
themselves to that effort.

181. 1. Commit to Raising A
Moral Child
Research: teachers who feel
strongly about their kids turning
out morally usually succeed
because they committed
themselves to that effort.

182. If you really want to
raise a moral child,
then make a personal
commitment to raise
one, and don’t stop
until he does.

183. 2. Be a
strong Moral
Example

184. Each day ask
yourself: “If my
student had only my
behavior to watch,
what example would
he catch?”

185. 3. Know your
beliefs and
share them.

186. They will hear
messages that
counter your values:
music, videos,
television, internet.

187. 4. Use
Teachable
Moments

188. 5. Use
discipline as a
Moral Lesson.

189. 6. Expect moral
behavior.

190. 7. Reflect on
the behaviors’
effects.

191. 8. Reinforce
moral behavior.

192. 9. Prioritize
morals daily.

193. 10. Incorporate
the Golden
Rule.

194. Without morals, the
young do not learn how
to deal with others
correctly and
appropriately.

195. Very important to teach
the students: delayed
gratification!

196. Two-
Marshmallow
Kids

197. S
Modeling/Rug Project

198. S
Board Game Time

199. Jigsaw Puzzles

200. Gardening

201. WEBSITES
www.mathstories.com

202. S
Recess/Lunch Time
Alternatives

203. The Little Prince

204. Play/Theater

206. S
SOME MORE IDEAS

207. 1. Rewards System
2. Student of the Year Recognition
3. Stop-Watch System
4. Search for the Most Outstanding Class Adviser
5. Search for the Most Innovative Teacher
6. Cooperative Learning Activities
7. Performance Tasks
8. Starting a Class with a Workload
9. Class Website
10. Class Excellence Award

209. Good Deeds Bowl

210. Merit/Rewards

211. Class Culture &
Identity

212. Trophy Technique

213. Compliments
Game

214. The Road
that leads
to two
paths…

215. Hal Urban’s Strategies

216. The most important thing he
did as a teacher.

217. Never let the demands of your
job cause you to forget that each
one of your students is a feeling-
thinking human being. For
education to be effective, it must
be personal.
- George Isaac Brown

218. The deepest urge in human
nature is the desire to be
important.
- John Dewey

219. - Eye contact
- Shaking hands
- Smiling

220. Second Most Important Thing
He Did as a Teacher:
Teach Manners and the
Golden Rule

221. If manners were an animal, it
would be an endangered species.
- Henry Rogers

222. Choosing an Atmosphere
Rude Courteous
Inconsiderate Considerate
Disrespectful Respectful
Offensive Polite

223. The Power of Words

224. 4 Pillars of Civilization
(Being Civil)
SThank You
SSorry
SPlease
SI give my word

225. “Practice what you preach…
But don’t forget to preach
what you practice!”
- Tom Lickona

226. Everything that
happens inside the
Classroom IS
Character Building.

227. The Power of
the Teacher to
Impact the Lives
of the Students

228. REFLECT ON THIS:
All Teachers leave
their marks on
children everyday.

229. REFLECT ON THIS:
Some of those
marks are
temporary. But
some are indelible.

230. 4 Exercises to
Make Teachers
Realize Their
Power

231. 1
Recall a teacher who
inspired you or
wounded you.

232. 2
Read Haim Ginott’s
Quote Everyday

233. 3
Have a Staff Discussion
of the ways teachers
have impacted their lives
positively and negatively.

234. 4
Meditate on the former
students who have come
back to thank you well
after they have left the
classroom.

235. Hal Urban’s Strategies

236. ENTHUSIASM
The quality of every “favorite”
teacher.

237. ENERGETIC

238. NOT BORING

239. TOUGH

240. HIGH STANDARDS

241. UNDERSTANDING

242. SENSE OF HUMOR

243. IMAGINATION

244. ALWAYS PREPARED

245. STORYTELLER

246. MOTIVATED

247. ENERGETIC
NOT BORING
TOUGH
HIGH STANDARDS
UNDERSTANDING
SENSE OF HUMOR
IMAGINATION
ALWAYS PREPARED
STORYTELLER
MOTIVATED

248. Enthusiasm for the Kids

249. Enthusiasm for teaching

250. Among teacher variables,
enthusiasm has the most
powerful and positive impact on
student learning.
- Toni Kempler

251. Not only does teacher
enthusiasm help make a subject
more enjoyable and entertaining
for students and the teacher, it
has also been shown to help the
learner retain larger amounts of
information
- W.D. Coats, Educational Psychologist

252. If you love what you are doing,
you will be successful!
- Albert Schweitzer

253. Tried-and-Tested Strategies That
Form Students’ Character:
Empathy, Resilience and Grit

254. Schools are not just
there to feed the
economy; they are
there to sustain and
nurture the culture, the
political system, the
entire society.

255. The 4 Purposes of
Education:
• Academic Learning
• Civic Character, Knowledge &
Skills
• Moral Character & Knowledge
• Performance Character & Skills

256. “Integrity without knowledge
is weak and useless;
Knowledge without integrity
is dangerous and dreadful”
- Samuel Johnson

257. Research:
“Children learn more
from what we do than
from what we say.”

260. Research:
“Children learn best
when there is
consistency between
what we say and do.”

262. Educators exist to
produce
GOOD PEOPLE,
not just
good test results

264. LOGO
by Mann Rentoy
Urgency of Character Formation:
Teachers as Agents of Formation

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