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Title: Connecting Character to Conduct: Helping Students Do the Right Things by Rita Stein, Roberta Richin, Richard Banyon, Francine Banyon, Marc Stein, Francine Banyon ISBN: 0-87120-388-X Publisher: Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development Pub. Date: October, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (3 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Great "How -to" for building character
Comment: In our multicultural society there are as many views of appropriate behavior as there are ethnic, national, or societal groups or religious codes of belief. Today, perhaps more than ever, schools need to cope with the challange of infusing values into the character of the young. What is a public code of behavior acceptable to all segments of this diversified American society and how do we integrate it into the education of our children? Educators have struggled with this question for the last hundred years. Finally there is a hands-on practical guidebook that gives the principal as well as the classroom teacher a well-defined method of communicating what might be called an American Public Morality. The RICE (R-respect, I impulse control C compassion E quity) Program as developed in Connecting Character to Conduct by Stein, Richin, and Banyon is must reading for all educators. This slender volume will change your life as a teacher.

Rating: 5
Summary: Great "How-to" for teaching behavior
Comment: In our multicultural society there are as many views of appropriate behavior as there are ethnic, national, or societal groups or religious codes of belief. Today, perhaps more than ever, schools need to cope with the challanges of infusing values into the character of the young. What is a public code of behavior acceptable to all segments of this diversified American society and how do we integrate it into the education of our children? Educators have struggled with this question for the last hundred years. Finally there is a hands-on practical guidebook that gives the principal as well as the classroom teacher a well-defined method of communicating what might be called an American Public Morality. The RICE (R-respect, I impulse control C compassion E quity) Program as developed in Connecting Character to Conduct by Stein, Richin, and Banyon is must reading for all educators. This slender volume will change your life as a teacher.

Rating: 2
Summary: Connecting Character Falls Short of Just That
Comment: Connecting Character to Conduct was obviously written with good intentions of ways to improve our schools, however, falls short of the mark for giving educators new and interesting ideas. The book is centered on the idea of RICE (respect, impulse control, compassion, and equity) and discusses ways to implement it. The implementation of RICE mostly revolves around parent workshops, letters home, parent involvement, classroom management, and the school working together as a community. These are strategies that educators generally learn in their education credential programs. This book does have a few good moments however. I did enjoy the fact that the book includes pupil personnel, classified, and administrative staff in the strategies. There are also some good examples in the appendix of the book of better ways to record and survey students regarding their behavior, needs, and feelings in regards to their education. The appendix of the book may be worth a quick scan, but the rest of the book leaves a lot to be desired.

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