TSD CREATIONS
Teamwork/Community
Virtually every dictionary definition of community speaks of a group of people with common interests, heritage or characteristics. That definition applies in every way to our school community. Though we come from diverse places and backgrounds, we have many common interests and certainly have a common goal of educating ourselves. It is very encouraging that any effort we make at school to build community and to instill an awareness of its importance can have a positive impact well in to the future.
The goal of this unit of study is to help the students understand the characteristics, benefits and importance of community. The curriculum will develop an understanding of classroom and school community with an emphasis on what our responsibilities are as we become important parts of this country’s citizenry.
Play Fair Character Education Lesson and song by Dr. T.
Dr. T stresses the importance and usefulness of following rules. He uses sports as an analogy. Every game has its rules. Those rules define the game. Cheaters can never be winners because cheaters are not in the game if they don’t play fair and by the rules. Dr. T speaks of the fact that doing your best and playing fair makes you a winner. The second you cheat, you have lost.
Trustworthy Character Education lesson and song by Dr. T.
In this video, “Dr. T” discusses the importance of building trust. We build trust over time by being someone who tells the truth and can be counted upon to do the right things.
Your character affects everything. The lessons, songs, videos, short stories and poetry used in this project are creations of Dr. T. All copyrights are held by Dr. T. Any unlawful use or distribution of these materials is not only unlawful, but exhibits extremely poor character. Do the right thing, even if no one is watching!
To download the songs that accompany these free lessons, go to any of the following links:
This is the link to Dr. T's YouTube Channel where you can find the teaching and music videos that the written curriculum is based on. https://www.youtube.com/@TSDCREATIONS56
Here are descriptions of the lessons:
Education is Power....So POWER UP!
Dr. T's productions are designed to teach and encourage good character and feature multiple creations. Each character pillar has a music video, lesson videos, written curriculum and lesson worksheets. These teaching tools are used to generate the language arts lessons in Dr. T's character curriculum. All lesson plans are designed to accompany “Education is Power," Dr. T’s songs and videos about good character. Dr. T also features a live stage show assembly program. This show spins off a program for middle and high school programs featuring those students performing the show and running the stage technology.
These songs can be downloaded from iTunes, Amazon, Cdbaby and other digital outlets (see the music and video links below). All lessons meet multiple educational standards and benchmarks.
All publishing and copyrights owned by TSD Creations Publishing.
The Respect Character Education Lessons by Dr. T.
These humorous videos feature an Elvis –like character as portrayed by Dr. T. He discusses the importance of treating others with respect. The attributes of respectful behavior are illustrated by using each letter from respect to create an acronym. R is for responsible, E for excellence, S is for superstars that are respectful, P is for positive people, the next E is for enthusiasm, C is for caring and T is for those who are trustworthy.
School Climate/Caring
Most well-meaning education advocates acknowledge the need to improve academic achievement among our students. The challenge is to implement plans that will achieve that goal. Though many conflicting ideas exist, there is one that seems to foster agreement among many advocates. The one solution that crosses ideological rifts is to restore and nurture school civility. An overarching move to restore civility in schools has taken the moniker “Character Education.” Foundational principles of positive civil behavior and discourse are rooted in such concepts as respect, responsibility, trustworthiness, community, etc.
These lessons are designed to help improve the character of our students which in turn will improve the climate of our schools. Improving our school climate will in turn improve the academic achievement of our students. As we will see, there are additional benefits. A positive climate affects everyone on campus, including the staff.
There are 4 videos that address different issues.
The 2 Couch Potato videos point out that while TV watching has some benefits, too much screen time and little reading can be a problem. This features a mix of live action and stop animation. Keep it clean addresses the importance of a clean environment and The Tale of Tim and Tom looks at 2 brothers, one responsible and one not.
Responsibility Character Education lesson and song by Dr. T.
In this video, “Dr. T” discusses the importance of being responsible. Responsibility can take on multiple characteristics. One is taking responsibility for your own actions and another is doing the jobs you are responsible for. 1 lesson about jobs and 1 about admitting our mistakes