Values-based education

DeltaBetaBaby · #1 07-27-2001, 10:46 AM

Okay, I love Risk Management! I am working on a values-based education program for my chapter. It focuses on our creed and ritual as inspiration for not only upholding our own oaths to the organization, but also helping our sisters to do the same. The program includes several discussions and activities, and one of the most important parts is teaching sisters how to confront other sisters.

Has anyone else done something like this? Some of the materical is stuff I got at the Mid-American Greek Council Assoication conference last year, but I am working on compiling it. As it is still in development stages, I would love any suggestions anyone might have. Thanks!

DeltaBetaBaby · #2 08-08-2001, 02:27 AM

I am really upset that noone has any thoughts on this, so I thought I would bump it back to the top.

AlphaSigLana · #3 08-09-2001, 12:00 AM

Well I have never done anything like this, but I think it sounds like a good idea. I think confrontation is a difficult thing and we not only need it with our sisters, but with people in general.
I know my big sis is ritual chair and a lot of new girls and even old girls didn't even know what our symbols etc were. So she made a poster board and made a presentation at meeting. She said she would do that until all the girls knew it. I know that isn't exactly what you are doing, but it is important for girls to know what oaths etc they are suppossed to be holding up. It is too bad that after pledge training girls often forget the ideals of their house. SO i would try a presentation- make it interactive. Also talk to someone at your school as in counselors and they may have resources regarding confrontation!
i hope this helps even though must of what I wrote was not concise.

James · #4 08-11-2001, 09:58 PM

Its a great idea, but hard to execute. Obviously you use parable type stories and real world examples? Will you also be putting real life situations from in your chapter into this format and bring it up?

What kind of materials did you get on this?

alumangel · #5 08-13-2001, 01:01 AM

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Originally posted by DeltaBetaBaby:
Okay, I love Risk Management

I'm with you! This is a really important topic and I'm thrilled that you are working on doing something with your chapter. I would love to talk with you about it further. I've done some values-based education with chapters and Panhellenics in the past and would be happy to just have a conversation about it. You can e-mail me at merritto@bigfoot.com. When is your program going to occur?

tcsparky · #6 08-19-2001, 04:51 PM

As a high school teacher I have to do similar education with the students at the beginning of the school year. Ours is based on our Code of Conduct. What I do is write out several scenarios dealing with a topic (backtalk, cheating, passing notes, dress code, etc..). No one scenario is more than one paragraph long. I then put them on an overhead transparency. I will then let the students read the scenarios for that day's topic: Example, they will read all five cheating scenarios. They then have to decide which scenario shows the student following the proper behavior, and have to discuss what in the the other scenarios is improper. In the cheating scenarios, they have to discuss the difference between asking someone for help on question #5, and asking someone for their paper in order to copy the answers. (I know that to us the answer is obvious, but to high school freshmen, the difference isn't as obvious). In the peer mediation course we used similar techniques for getting the student thinking about the proper way to handle conflict.