Domain (1): Concept of school education | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
1.1 | To educate students is to develop their cognitive abilities. |
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1.2 | Schools are responsible of academic achievement and character development is its secondary task. |
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1.3 | Character development is a priority task of parents and caregivers while academic development is a priority task of schools. |
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1.4 | Schools target mainly academic achievement since the general goals of the Lebanese curricula only target the cognitive development of students. |
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1.5 | Teachers are primarily responsible of students’ academic achievement and secondarily responsible of students’ character development. |
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Domain (2): The school community promotes core ethical and performance values as the foundation of good character. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
2.1 | Stakeholders in the school community select or assent to a set of core values. |
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2.2 | Core ethical and performance values actively guide every aspect of life in the school. |
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2.3 | The school community articulates its character-related goals and expectations through visible statements of its core ethical and performance values. |
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Domain (3): The school defines “character” comprehensively to include thinking, feeling, and doing. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
3.1 | The school helps students acquire a developmentally appropriate understanding of what the core values mean in everyday behavior and grasp the reasons why some behaviors represent good character and their opposites do not. |
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3.2 | The school helps students reflect upon the core values, appreciate them, desire to demonstrate them, and become committed to them. |
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3.3 | The school helps students practice the core values so that they become habitual patterns of behavior. |
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Domain (4): The school uses a comprehensive, intentional, and proactive approach to character development. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
4.1 | The school is intentional and proactive in addressing character at all grade levels. |
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4.2 | Character education is integrated into academic content and instruction. |
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4.3 | Character education is a priority in how teachers conduct their classes. |
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4.4 | Character education is infused throughout the school day in classes, sports, meetings, and co-curricular activities. |
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Domain (5): The school creates a caring community. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
5.1 | The school makes it a high priority to foster caring attachments between students and staff. |
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5.2 | The school makes it a high priority to help students form caring attachments to each other. |
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5.3 | The school takes steps to prevent peer cruelty and violence and deals with it effectively when it occurs. |
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5.4 | The school makes it a high priority to foster caring attachments among adults within the school community. |
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Domain (6): The school provides students with opportunities for moral action. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
6.1 | The school sets clear expectations for students to engage in actions that develop and demonstrate good character. |
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6.2 | The school provides all students with varied opportunities for engaging in positive, responsible action within the school, and students engage in these opportunities and reflect on them. |
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6.3 | The school provides all students with repeated and varied opportunities for making contributions to the larger community, and students engage in these opportunities and reflect on them. |
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