Character Education Workshops by Dr Philip Vincent

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Developing Character in Students

Date                : 24 October 2016 Monday
Venue            : To Be Confirmed
Time                : 9.00am to 5.00pm
Closing date   : 2 September 2016, Friday

Workshop Fee:
S$300.00 per participant. If 2 or more participants from the same school/organization attend the same workshop, the discounted fee will be S$250.00 per participant for that particular workshop. Fees are subject to GST and include all training materials, 2 tea breaks and a lunch.

Other Information:
Registration is on a first-come-first serve basis. No refunds will be made for cancellations or in the case of absentees. The Academy accepts replacements for registered participants who are unable to attend for whatever reasons.

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School/Cluster Based Workshop Registration
Dates available for booking: 27 and 28 October 2016

Please contact Joseph Loy by email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or tel: 6363 0330 on the cost of conducting the workshop.

Workshop Synopsis

This workshop will address several areas that are essential for schools desiring to develop a plan for comprehensive education for all stakeholders (students, educators, parents and community members).

The workshop will begin with an overview of what we now know from research and informed practice on effective character education initiatives. Afterwards, we will move to a model that was developed and successfully implemented in the Trillium Lakelands School District that built on the work of Philip Vincent and his book, Developing Character in Students: A Primer. This model was, and can be used today, to develop a comprehensive character education initiative.

At each step of the model, research and strategies will be provided to enable the participants to develop a comprehensive understanding of each stage of development. Before moving onto the next stage in the model, participants will develop classroom and school wide strategies that can become the basis of each school’s efforts.

Objectives/Learning Outcomes

During this workshop participants will learn:

What research and informed practice is showing from throughout the world on effective character education practices
How to utilize an established framework on how to build a comprehensive character initiative using a step-by step strategy.
How to involve all stakeholders (students, educators, parents and community members) in informing the efforts of the school.
How to begin the steps on assessing the success of the effort.

Upon the conclusion of the workshop, participants will have applied the model in determining strategies that they can do to begin enhancing their efforts. They will also be able to use this format to assess their present efforts, celebrate their strengths and use the model to guide them on their improvement efforts.

Relationships + Rules + Routines = Results

Date                : 25 October 2016 Tuesday
Venue             : To Be Confirmed
Time                : 9.00am to 5.00pm
Closing date   : 2 September 2016, Friday

Workshop Description

This workshop will address the research and best practices on the importance of relationships, rules and routines have in assisting students and adults in achieving throughout the total school environment. This workshop will share strategies on how schools can enhance their relationships among all stakeholders, develop specific and general rules, and most importantly, routines that will create a positive climate for the flourishing of all stakeholders.

Objectives/Learning Outcomes

During this workshop participants will learn:

What the research shows on the importance of relationships and routines in enhancing the flourishing of all stakeholders in schools.
10+ ways to develop better relationships between teachers and students in the school.
The difference between specific and general rules and the importance of general rules in developing the expectations of proper behavior.
How to conceive and implement routines, using the input from students that will contribute to the flourishing of all stakeholders.
How to assess your efforts in developing relationships, rules and routines.
At the conclusion of this workshop, participants will:
Have developed a greater understanding of how relationships, rules and routines are essential for a school to flourish for the students and the adults in the building.
Have developed strategies on how to enhance relationships between stakeholders in the classroom and greater school environment.
Have steps and strategies on how to involve the students in developing routines to insure a positive learning environment across all school classes and courses.
Have develop some strategies on how to assess the efforts of building relationships, rules and routines within the school and classroom.

Ethical Decision Making:

Strategies for the Elementary and Middle Class Classroom

Date                : 26 October 2016 Wednesday
Venue             : To Be Confirmed
Time                : 9.00am to 5.00pm
Closing date   : 2 September 2016, Friday

Workshop Description

Preschool children are capable of engaging in critical thinking and reasoning and begin distinguishing between moral actions and social conventions. In other words, all of the students who are engaged in school are capable of considering ideas and issues involving potentially moral or ethical considerations.

In this age of increasing social and moral complexity it behooves us to assist our students, with our community in enhancing our students’ abilities in building a life as a reflective ethical thinker. This workshop will address the research and best practices on how to enhance the ethical thinking of students within a developmentally appropriate approach. During the workshop, participants will learn how to use literature, narratives, art, music and the daily life of the classroom to engage and enhance the ethical decision making of all stakeholders within the school environment.

Objectives/Learning Outcomes
During this workshop participants will:

Learn what the research indicates on how to enhance the ethical decision making of students.
Learn the difference between social and ethical norms.
Learn how to use and develop thinking tools or graphic thinking maps to help students learn to see their ethical thinking.
Develop questioning skills on leading discussions to enhance ethical understanding.
Understand how to plan for, and enhance ethical thinking, in a developmentally appropriate manner.
Determine how your curriculum and the student’s life within the school can be used to enhance their ethical thinking.

At the conclusion of this workshop, participants will:

Have developed a greater understanding and some strategies of how to help students think about ethical issues within the curriculum and their greater community.
Have considered how the natural intellectual development of the child can be used to assist in his/her ethical development.
Have had opportunities to utilize thinking tools or graphic organizers to help students learn to see their ethical thinking.
Will determine how to utilize various thinking tools or graphic organizers throughout the curriculum
Will have developed some strategies on how to develop ethical actions and reasoning throughout the greater school community.

About the Trainer - Dr Philip Fitch Vincent

headshot phil Dr. Philip Fitch Vincent brings more than 30 successful years of experience in education to his presentations, workshops, and best-selling books. With an academic background in philosophy, religion, and psychology, Dr. Vincent received his master's degree in education from Appalachian State University in 1979 and his doctor of education degree in curriculum and instruction from North Carolina State University in 1991.

He has taught at the elementary, middle, and high school levels in North Carolina and Alaska. He has been a site based and building level administrator over his career. Phil has worked throughout the United States and Canada providing over 1000 trainings and keynotes since 1995. Among his many awards are a Teaching Merit Award, a grant from the Council for Basic Education, and Phi Kappa Phi and Phi Delta Kappa induction. In 2007 he received the Sandy McDonald Award for lifetime achievements in the area of character education. He was also honored by the Province of Ontario during the same year. In 2007, Phil with Doug Grove and Michael Corrigan formed, Multi-Dimensional Education, Inc. (www.mdedinc.com). We are presently providing research and evaluation to schools, school districts and organizations concerning the effectiveness of their efforts. In 2010, Phil became a partner with Core5 After-school, an organization focused on providing support for after school providers. You can access their materials and videos at, www.Core5Afterschool.org.

Phil has written, co-authored or edited 27 books over the last 30 years. He was co-author with Joseph Hester of the "Philosophy for Young Thinkers" series in the 1980's and early 90's. These books are still in press in the United States and Australia. He also wrote one of the first books in the recent character education renaissance, Developing Character in Students (1994 and 1999) and added Promising Practices in Character Education, Vols. 1 & 2, Rules and Procedures, and the Gift of Character: The Chattanooga Story. More recently he has authored or co-authored:

• Relationships + Rules + Routines = Results (2013)
• Multi-Dimensional Education: A Common Sense Approach to Data Driven Thinking (2011) and Restoring School Civility (2009)

The CBS News and USA Today have featured Dr. Vincent's staff development work for school civility. He has written numerous journal articles about developing character, gifted education, computer ethics, and working with at-risk students in an alternative classroom setting.

"This man's passion is contagious and powerful. "
— Workshop attendee, Cooperating School Districts National Character Education Conference

Click here to watch a video featuring Dr Philip Vincent