Middle / Upper School: Facilitating Moral Growth and Academic Achievement

With Larry Nucci

Online Webinar
Wednesday, January 27th, 3:30pm - 5pm EST

Registration prices is per computer hook-up. Please feel free to project the presentation for multiple faculty members to watch, or share a computer screen.

This webinar will be held live from 3:30 - 5:00pm on January 27th. Those participants unable to make this time will be provided with a link to the recorded webinar for later viewing. The link will be provided one day after the completion of the session, and for up to 3 months after the taping. For more information on the webinar format, see the right sidebar on this page.

This approach integrates state-of-the-art research on social and moral development with processes of student motivation, positive classroom behavior and academic achievement. Procedures learned in this webinar are intended for use as part of regular academic instruction rather than as an add-on or special curriculum.

Learning Objective and Desired Outcomes

• Understand the distinction between children’s concepts of morality (justice, welfare, rights), social conventions (norms and rules particular to a social group), and personal areas of privacy and prerogative.
• Become knowledgeable about the course of development in children’s morality and related developmental domains.
• Understand the basic principles of developmental discipline and their relation to student motivation and social and emotional growth
• Be able to identify moral, conventional and personal domain issues imbedded in regular academic assignments for your given subject area
• Be able to structure moral and social development lessons employing the regular academic curriculum and structured with academic learning objectives within your subject area

Agenda

• Introduction to social cognitive domain theory and the process of moral development
• The basics of developmental discipline for operating a classroom that is efficient, and orderly but that also contributes to academic motivation and social-emotional development
• Identifying moral and social development issues within the regular curriculum for a given subject area (e.g, social studies, language arts, sciences, arts)
• Coordinating academic learning objectives with moral development objectives
• Structuring moral discussions and reflective writing assignments (with hands-on examples) to meet academic and moral development learning objectives.
• Connecting classroom moral development lessons with school and community-based service-learning

About the Presenter

Larry Nucci teaches in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley, and is Professor Emeritus of Educational Psychology at the University of Illinois, Chicago. He is author of several texts, including Education in the Moral Domain (2001), and Conflict, Contradiction and Contrarian Elements in Moral Development and Education (2005). Nucci is Editor of the journal Human Development and on the editorial boards of the Journal for Research in Character Education and Cognitive Development. He is also a member of the Educational Advisory Committee of the Character Education Partnership.