Cool Tool: Mutual Respect

Objectives:

1.Recognize responsible behavior and inappropriate behavior.

2.Students will develop an understanding of the concept of respect.

3.Students will identify respectful behavior and the impact of such behaviors.

Goals:

  1. To understand the meaning of respect.
  2. How to earn respect from others.
  3. What is the wrong kind of respect?
  4. The students will be able to evaluate their own self-respect

Procedures:

-Have your student each set 3 goals for the remainder of the school year:

  1. “I will respect myself by ______”.
  2. “I will respect others by______”.
  3. “I will respect our school environment by ______”.

- Hold a class discussion about each student’s goals and why they chose them.

Other ideas:

Poems that you can read and discuss with your class:

Respect
If we can not respect another
How can we expect them to respect us
If we can not respect someone’s beliefs
How can we expect them to respect ours
If we can not respect another’s race
How can we expect that race to respect us
If we can not respect others
How can we expect respect in return
Everyone expects respect
No matter who they are
The only way to gain it
Is to start treating everyone
As a friend, a brother, a sister
As part of our extended family
No matter what colour or creed they are
Only then you will start to get
The respect you so dearly crave
24 March 2007
David Harris
Respect
Respect each peer
Respect each foe more
Attributes stand next to your conscience’s core
Respect each night
Respect each day
Actions reveal your character in every way
Respect each creature
Respect each beast
Trust unveils truth hidden behind nature’s mist
Respect each cloud
Respect each grain of sand
Mercy will offer you her helping hand
Respect each color
Respect each race
Equality speaks only of mercy and grace
Respect each river
Respect each pond
Mother Nature conveys her great wonders and beyond
Walk into each day,
With your heart soaked in hope and joy
As day fades and night endures
Respect will never destroy
Anders Lim
If we can not respect another
How can we expect them to respect us
If we can not respect someone’s beliefs
How can we expect them to respect ours
If we can not respect another’s race
How can we expect that race to respect us
If we can not respect others
How can we expect respect in return
Everyone expects respect
No matter who they are
The only way to gain it
Is to start treating everyone
As a friend, a brother, a sister
As part of our extended family
No matter what colour or creed they are
Only then you will start to get
The respect you so dearly crave
24 March 2007
David Harris
RESPECT
RESPECT:
Respect is a lesson that everyone should learn
Respect must be given before an expected return
Respect is something that’s given for free
Respect is about us and never about me
Respect is the basis on which relationships are founded
Respect is the anchor that keeps a person well grounded
Respect builds the character and defines who we are
Respect sets the standard and raises the bar
Respect is magnanimous and helps to fulfil
Respect is the partner that sits with good will
Respect is like honey so sweet it’s perceived
Respect a taste to savour for when it’s received
don wilson