Character Counts
Character Counts
is something to do with the six pillars that there are, and how everyone shows
examples of it. Last time we had a
character counts assembly was about a little over a month ago. The last trait we had was
Trustworthiness. The next assembly is
dated on Dec.19, 2008 and the new pillar is Respect.
In class every
week on Wednesdays, the wave writing that the whole school does is related to
the topic, Character Counts. All
Wednesdays we will be doing something related to character counts and the
pillar that is describing at the time.
We will be able to share what we have written at the end of wave. We will get about 30 minutes to get done and
share.
A question
was, how do you get picked and why do you get picked? The answer was that the teachers watch you
and see how you do and if you show the example of the character counts or
pillar you will be rewarded. That’s not it though, you have to show the example
consistently, not just one time, and they have to be different types of things
related toward the pillar.
Another
question that was asked was, how do you pick who is going to be the person of
the trait? I have that the teacher will
watch every student in class and see who is showing the trait the best. Also students will nominate who they think it
should be because most of the teachers aren’t always out on recess duty, so
they might be an angel in class, but a bully outside of class. Students will come up to the teacher at
certain times, but very rarely and they will tell them suggestions about
students.
Character
Counts is a relationship between six different pillars. Each different pillar that there is will be
presented by a student in each different wave class. Each wave teacher will be able to pick a
student that is in their wave class, and assign them as the character that
showed that pillar. Every time that
there is a new character picked the students name will be presented up in the
classroom above the whiteboard. This
will not change though; if we have another pillar that name will also be
awarded right next to the other one.
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12/04/08
period 4