PROJECTS
Goals:
- Students are given a good value for themselves. From there, they have specific actions in life to bring good things to others. They understand that bringing joy to others is also bringing joy to their own self.
- Students are responsible for themselves, people around them, the environment, ... The project aims to create value for students in terms of responsibility, attention and empathy.
- The project also aims to achieve the fourth and the 16th goals in 17 UN development goals: Quality Education and Peace, justice and strong institutions.
- This project is built on top of CASEL'S SEL framework. Therefore, through this project, students will gain Five Core Competencies, including:
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Self-Awareness​
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Self-Management
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Responsible Decision Making
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Social Awareness
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Relationship Skills
Process: 5 Weeks of a mission
Week 1: Building knowledge
- Students watch videos of kindness (video suggestion). This is a video I recommend for you but you can completely choose another video that you think will fit your students.
- Discussion together
+ What is kindness?
+ What actions are considered kind? (Some kind actions you can suggest to your students if they need your help, such as: caring for themselves, helping their parents, helping their friends, scavenging, etc.)
- Students are also guided and learn how to recognize their own emotions and those of others (when a person is sad, happy, happy, angry, ..). From there, they know how to control their emotionsas well as giving positive behavior, to avoid mistakes or actions.
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Week 2, 3, 4: Kind action
- Students use the act of kindness board to practice every day in class, school, family, community, etc. Click here to do download Kindness board.
- Students will perform kind works everywhere, such as at home, at school, in public, etc. These actions need to be recorded in photos, videos, kind stories, etc. Therefore, you should work with parents on a weekly basis by sending parents a weekly action sheet. This form will be sent to parents at the beginning of the week and will be sent back to the teacher on weekends. Parents can send for you photos, videos, their kids' story via email, message,...
Click here to download the weekly action record sheet.
- At the end of each week, teachers will review and commend students for doing a lot of good work. I suggested that teachers print their pictures and paste the corner of the class as a way to advertise them.
Week 5: Skype-a-thon about Kindness
To help students share the kind work they have done as well as listen to their friends' stories from other classes, I encourage you to participate in the Skype-a-thon week for students to have chance to connect with other classes around the globe. I think that beautiful action should be widely shared. Skype-a-thon is also an opportunity for students to learn the culture of other countries around the globe. You can also have your student connect with another teacher to share if you do not find a class that shares the same time zone.
Bonus week: Kindness Day (optinal)
In Kindness Day, you call on all students, parents, staffs in your school to raise money, clothes, clothes, food, books, etc. to help children in difficult places. This is the way students learn the way to share difficult with others. Students will plan to carry out charity trips to help those in need: the elderly, orphans, the homeless, etc.
Cerificate and Feedback
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Check the effectiveness of the project: Sending this form to students to check the effectiveness of the project.
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Certificates: Certificates as a token of appreciation and recognition to all the students and teachers who'd actively be a part of this global work.
Not only 5 weeks
​Depending on the conditions of each school, teachers can organize follow-up activities throughout the school year for students to practice the value of kindness every day.
With my school, I organize more follow-up activities such as a mind-nourishing project, an emotional intelligence project, a climate change prevention project, etc.