Welcome to The Ethos Project Plenary

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• Welcome to The Ethos Project Plenary
• The Language of School Ethos
• In five words or fewer (writing one word on each
  piece of paper) describe your school/ college
  ethos

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• Welcome

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• Character education is inherently a
  multidisciplinary endeavour, which requires its
  adherents to ask divergent questions and employ
  disparate methods in approaching the subject.
• Arthur (2003)

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Session 1

• The Language of School Ethos
• In your group (of 3) open an envelope
• Using the words in the envelope - describe all
  the ways you might see this in action in the
  school or college (using a different sheet for
  each word)

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Session 1

• the kind of people we are turning out is more
  important than national supremacy in mathematics
  and science
• Noddings (2002)

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Session 1

• Learning through ethos
• Formal
• Non-formal
• Informal

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Session 1

• personal reflection and action plan

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Session 2

• Current language of character
• In a new group of 3 use the PCs to log into
  www.theethosproject.co.uk and go to the news page
• Use the articles as a springboard to explore the
  language of character beyond the school gate
• Represent this graphically with as few words as
  possible

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Session 2

• schools should first and foremost be moral
  communities there are no algorithms or recipes
  It is very much a matter of context.
• Lauder, Jamieson Wikeley (1998)

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Session 2

• Choice architecture

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Session 2

• personal reflection and action plan

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Session 3

• Individually, draw a stick person (down to the
  waist) with a big head, heart andhand.
• Follow the instructions from Jon/Richard

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Session 3

• Johari Window

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Session 3

• Maslows Hierarchy

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Session 3
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Session 3

• Enablement Model

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Session 3

• Weve looked at the actions,feeling and thoughts
• Now focus on what moves the individual
• How does your ethos enable this?

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Session 3

• personal reflection and action plan

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Session 4
It is clear that certain aspects of
character building are beyond the realm of
measurement. Arthur (2002)
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Session 4

• Using the language of character in the
  curriculum
• Where is your ethos in your curriculum?

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Session 4

What are the formal, non-formal and informal
opportunities in your curriculum for the
development of ethos? What is the priority it is
given? What impact does it have? How could we
develop it?
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Session 4

• History suggests the prescriptive use of
  principles has not been effective.
• Noddings (2002)

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Session 4

• How can we use the National Curriculum aims?

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Session 4

• personal reflection and action plan

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