Learning Outcome Three
Learning Outcome Three: Demonstrate good moral character.
I have worked to demonstrate good moral character throughout my entire life, and I will support this claim through a paper written for a Foundations of Modern Education course in fall of 2009, a video clip showing my participation in a benefit concert for the “Make A Wish Foundation,” and an assignment I created for a seventh grade class about kindness. In my personal life, I also continue to work on my moral character by attending mass at St. Patrick’s Church in Syracuse, NY every week. I also spent time in high school tutoring my peers in English for no compensation.
One piece of evidence that helps to prove my moral character is a paper that I wrote for a “Foundations of Education” course in which I reacted to the inequality among the education of different classes. My disappointment in the way our society fails to provide equal opportunity to every class and limits some students’ chance to be educated in the best way possible helps to support my moral character. I believe that every single student can succeed but, as Jonathan Kozol has strongly shown through his work, their socio-economic status can unfortunately hinder their ability to receive a decent education. My moral character is demonstrated in my writing of this paper as well as my passion to challenge the educational shortcomings that this paper discusses by helping to provide an excellent education to all. I would love to have a career in which I spend my time giving students in a high needs school an excellent education that can motivate them to improve themselves and their lives as well as strive to be productive citizens.
Another piece of evidence that proves my moral character is a video clip of my performance in a benefit concert that raised money for the “Make A Wish Foundation.” I spent an entire summer rehearsing for this concert and promoting it within the Syracuse community. We raised money for the foundation so that a child with a terminal disease could see one of his/her last wishes fulfilled. We worked hard all summer to create an uplifting concert whose theme was “Over the Racial Rainbow” to promote equality among all races. We successfully raised money and donated all proceeds to the foundation.
I gave an extra credit assignment to the seventh grade class I taught at Grant Middle School surrounding the idea of a good Samaritan. One part of my own moral character is a strong belief to help others and to treat them kindly. After being in a school where insults flew frequently and fights broke out often, I decided that my students could benefit from a lesson on treating others kindly. Since the school primarily focused on treating negative behavior, I decided to give the students some reward for positive behavior. I therefore had the students read a short story titled “The Good Samaritan” so that we could discuss this concept. Once students had an understanding of both what a good Samaritan is and why being a good Samaritan is important, I gave them an extra credit assignment that required them to document any act of kindness they completed. I informed students that my hope with the assignment was to create a chain reaction in which other students would see them acting kindly and be motivated to do the same. Students enjoyed the idea of making their school a nicer place and worked hard to spread kindness.
I have worked to demonstrate good moral character throughout my entire life, and I will support this claim through a paper written for a Foundations of Modern Education course in fall of 2009, a video clip showing my participation in a benefit concert for the “Make A Wish Foundation,” and an assignment I created for a seventh grade class about kindness. In my personal life, I also continue to work on my moral character by attending mass at St. Patrick’s Church in Syracuse, NY every week. I also spent time in high school tutoring my peers in English for no compensation.
One piece of evidence that helps to prove my moral character is a paper that I wrote for a “Foundations of Education” course in which I reacted to the inequality among the education of different classes. My disappointment in the way our society fails to provide equal opportunity to every class and limits some students’ chance to be educated in the best way possible helps to support my moral character. I believe that every single student can succeed but, as Jonathan Kozol has strongly shown through his work, their socio-economic status can unfortunately hinder their ability to receive a decent education. My moral character is demonstrated in my writing of this paper as well as my passion to challenge the educational shortcomings that this paper discusses by helping to provide an excellent education to all. I would love to have a career in which I spend my time giving students in a high needs school an excellent education that can motivate them to improve themselves and their lives as well as strive to be productive citizens.
Another piece of evidence that proves my moral character is a video clip of my performance in a benefit concert that raised money for the “Make A Wish Foundation.” I spent an entire summer rehearsing for this concert and promoting it within the Syracuse community. We raised money for the foundation so that a child with a terminal disease could see one of his/her last wishes fulfilled. We worked hard all summer to create an uplifting concert whose theme was “Over the Racial Rainbow” to promote equality among all races. We successfully raised money and donated all proceeds to the foundation.
I gave an extra credit assignment to the seventh grade class I taught at Grant Middle School surrounding the idea of a good Samaritan. One part of my own moral character is a strong belief to help others and to treat them kindly. After being in a school where insults flew frequently and fights broke out often, I decided that my students could benefit from a lesson on treating others kindly. Since the school primarily focused on treating negative behavior, I decided to give the students some reward for positive behavior. I therefore had the students read a short story titled “The Good Samaritan” so that we could discuss this concept. Once students had an understanding of both what a good Samaritan is and why being a good Samaritan is important, I gave them an extra credit assignment that required them to document any act of kindness they completed. I informed students that my hope with the assignment was to create a chain reaction in which other students would see them acting kindly and be motivated to do the same. Students enjoyed the idea of making their school a nicer place and worked hard to spread kindness.