Description
Teaching Virtues: Building Character Across the Curriculum by father-daughter team, Don Trent Jacobs and Jessica Jacobs-Spencer, offers educators a unique approach to teaching character education from a Native American perspective. Both educators contribute their understanding of universal reciprocity found in Indigenous worldview with the authentic educational goal to produce an effective holistic education in terms of character education. They offer advice to teachers about extending character education across the curriculum including mathematics, language arts, science, social studies, and the visual and performing arts. The book includes an assessment model as well as lesson plans for adopting the approach into today's classroom.