STUDENT EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM
"STUDENTS
WANTED FOR A VALUES BASED EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM
BASED ON OUR
CONSTITUTION"
3.
TIPS FROM TEACHERS USING YOU THE PEOPLE
When
teaching this program:
—Be
flexible - Let current events show students how the Constitution
affects them every day. This program is designed to help
your students make a better life for themselves and their
children.
—They
perspire, you inspire. It's a natural way to teach that
gets great results and lets you live longer.
—Treat
your students as adults in training. They will rise to
meet your expectations.
- Assign
the students to their groups to ensure diversity of thought
within the groups. Mix students from different economic
and religious backgrounds, the shy and the outgoing, the
doer and the thinker, etc. Make sure that students don't "hang" with
their usual companions. Once picked, groups are expected
to remain together for the duration of the course as much
as possible.
—Spend
some time early on the inspirational part of this program.
Use the quotes in the handbook and the video. Reinforce
their vital historic role as the latest group of common
people to try to rule themselves. Remind them that the
others failed. Some teachers have their students look into
the reasons the others failed. Others have their students
research their own family trees to find an ancestor who
stood out.
—Make
sure the students are thoroughly grounded in the citizenship
skills before they start the student action group process.
The Citizenship Skills are the skills of good group decision
making and should be ingrained before starting the group
process. Use the exercises provided in the handbook to
help them come to a common understanding of these skills.
—Continue
to use these Citizenship Skill development exercises coupled
with the evaluation sheets after they start the group process.
Improving the citizenship skills is as important a learning
objective as learning how their government works.
—The
Student Citizenship Training Program was designed to prepare
High School Seniors to participate in their local government,
but students from junior high to college-age levels are
using it with great results. The level changes by changing
the level of the issues. The values it teaches are ageless.
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