Responsibility Character Education Unit | Social Emotional Learning
Social skills are just like academic skills—we need to spend time practicing them with our students! Bolster your SEL block with this Responsibility Character Education Unit. You’ll have a toolbox full of responsibility activities, coloring pages, bulletin board materials, crafts, lessons, anchor charts and more to give your students intentional practice with responsibility in your classroom. Empower your students to be their best selves as you use these resources to develop responsibility skills and positive character traits.
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Social skills are just like academic skills—we need to spend time practicing them with our students! Bolster your SEL block with this Responsibility Character Education Unit. You’ll have a toolbox full of responsibility activities, coloring pages, bulletin board materials, crafts, lessons, anchor charts and more to give your students intentional practice with responsibility in your classroom. Empower your students to be their best selves as you use these resources to develop responsibility skills and positive character traits.
You’ll Love:
- A variety of resources to explicitly model and practice responsibility with students
- Giving your students an opportunity to build their classroom community
- Bolstering your SEL curriculum and making character education a priority
What You Get in this Responsibility Character Education Resource:
A Full Month of SEL Curriculum
Responsibility Pacing Guide
- Organize your entire month of responsibility
- Plan to set aside the necessary time to complete the curriculum with your students
Responsibility Parent Letter
- Get family members involved so they can reinforce the character education trait at home.
- Provides parents with tools to help them explain, model, and praise responsibility at home.
- Includes a list of books and movies that families can enjoy together.
Responsibility Read Alouds
- Choose responsibility read aloud texts that teach different aspects of responsibility.
- Each book makes for a great discussion!
Responsibility Bulletin Boards
- Introduce responsibility to your students with a beautiful bulletin board display.
- Keep this display in your classroom for the entire month that you are teaching responsibility.
- Everything you need to create the display is here – including completed examples!
Responsibility Anchor Chart
- Create a visual reference for your students – keep learning accessible!
- Students can refer back to this anchor chart as they respond to questions, work independently, and contribute to discussions during your SEL or Character Education lessons.
- A printable version of the anchor chart is also included.
Responsibility Posters
- Provide students with a visual definition of responsibility in your room with 6 poster options.
Daily Responsible Acts Calendar
- Use this calendar to challenge your students to perform a responsible act each day.
- It is editable so you can change the month or the responsible acts.
TIP: Edit this resource to make multiple versions of the calendar – students perform different acts of responsibility than their classmates each day!
Doodle Reflection Page
- Give students the chance to get creative with ideas about what responsibility is, and how they can show it.
- Includes reflection questions, examples of responsibility, fun responsibility quotes, and doodles
“I Am Responsible” Activity
- Students will brainstorm and list what they are responsible for in the morning, at school, after school, and at night.
My Dream Pet Activity
- Students will choose a dream pet, draw a picture, plan everything they’ll need to take care of it, figure out where it will live, consider what the pet needs on a daily basis, and write a letter explaining how they will show responsibility as their pet’s caretaker.
Teacher Assistant Application Activity
- Students apply the idea of responsibility to their own actions as they apply to work as the teacher’s assistant and explain their own responsibility skills.
- Crafts can be made with three to seven prompts.
- You can pick and print the pages that you would like your students to complete.
Quote of the Week
- Each week, discuss a new quote about responsibility with your students.
- Quote of the week includes five different responsibility quotes.
- Activity page with three reflection questions is included for each quote.
- Each quote is available in a speech bubble that you can print and hang.
Responsibility Scenarios
- Let students place themselves in new situations and think about ways to be responsible.
- Use these scenarios to inspire meaningful conversations in your classroom.
- Display the scenarios on your bulletin board for a class discussion or print the scenarios for students to work in groups or independently.
Responsibility Reader’s Theatre
- Readers theater will help with fluency, comprehension, and speaking and while studying character education.
- There are three scripts for students to read and perform.
Writing Prompts + Publishing Pages
- Includes five writing prompts for students to reflect and write about responsibility.
- Students write about how to be responsible at home, how to be responsible at school, responsibilities they will have as they get older, a short story about irresponsible Ralph, and a short story about the superhero Ms. Responsible.
- Bulletin board, writing paper, and clipart to turn this into a display is included.
Digital Option for Use With Google
- Option to go 100% paperless with this resource
These activities are perfect for:
- Morning Meetings
- Counselor Lessons
- Whole-Class Discussions
- Service Learning Projects
- Conflict Resolution Discussions
- Small Groups
- Independent Work
- Early Finishers
- Morning Work
- Sub Plans, and so much more!
Why Teachers Like You LOVE This Resource:
“This resource was used during Morning Meeting. THEY LOVED IT! We used a little bit each morning to introduce our character trait for the month, and it really helped get the point across. Thank you so much!”, – Ashley R.
“I love all of the different activities that are included in this product. My students really enjoyed using this during our morning meeting time.” – Jessica J.
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