Domain (1): Concept of school education

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To educate students is to develop their cognitive abilities.

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Schools are responsible of academic achievement and character development is its secondary task.

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Character development is a priority task of parents and caregivers while academic development is a priority task of schools.

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Schools target mainly academic achievement since the general goals of the Lebanese curricula only target the cognitive development of students.

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Teachers are primarily responsible of students’ academic achievement and secondarily responsible of students’ character development.

Domain (2): The school community promotes core ethical and performance values as the foundation of good character.

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Stakeholders in the school community select or assent to a set of core values.

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Core ethical and performance values actively guide every aspect of life in the school.

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The school community articulates its character-related goals and expectations through visible statements of its core ethical and performance values.

Domain (3): The school defines “character” comprehensively to include thinking, feeling, and doing.

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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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The school helps students reflect upon the core values, appreciate them, desire to demonstrate them, and become committed to them.

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The school helps students practice the core values so that they become habitual patterns of behavior.

Domain (4): The school uses a comprehensive, intentional, and proactive approach to character development.

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The school is intentional and proactive in addressing character at all grade levels.

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Character education is integrated into academic content and instruction.

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Character education is a priority in how teachers conduct their classes.

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Character education is infused throughout the school day in classes, sports, meetings, and co-curricular activities.

Domain (5): The school creates a caring community.

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The school makes it a high priority to foster caring attachments between students and staff.

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The school makes it a high priority to help students form caring attachments to each other.

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The school takes steps to prevent peer cruelty and violence and deals with it effectively when it occurs.

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The school makes it a high priority to foster caring attachments among adults within the school community.

Domain (6): The school provides students with opportunities for moral action.

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The school sets clear expectations for students to engage in actions that develop and demonstrate good character.

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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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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.