Student Learning Activity Review Student Learning Plan Why is this important? What will you learn to do? How will you know when you are succeeding? Knowledge and skills you will learn along the way. Develop a personal code of ethics, comparing the values it represents with the Army Values Inquire Phase

Inquire Phase

Student Learning Activity #1 What are Values? Where do these values come from? What questions do you have about values? Inquire Phase

Student Learning Activity #1 (cont.) Army’s Definition of Values: Values are your attitudes about the worth of people, concepts, and other things. Values tell you what you need to be, every day, in every action you take. Inquire Phase

Student Learning Activity #1 (cont.) Can you change your behavior by examining your thinking? Student Learning Activity #1 (cont.) thinking beliefs attitudes feelings behavior List the “attitudes” you have about family, school, community, people, work, and leadership Have these attitudes affected your actions? How? Inquire Phase

Student Learning Activity #1 (cont.) Share your attitude list with each other and share stories about times those attitudes drove specific actions. Did you find that others have different attitudes about the same things? How did those differing attitudes show up in different actions? Inquire Phase

Reflection: Since your attitudes about the worth of people, concepts and things describe your values, and your values are seen through your actions; what do your actions say about what you value? What values do you think have positive outcomes for influencing others? What values do you think have negative outcomes for influencing others? Inquire Phase

Student Learning Activity #3 Think about the values that are important to you Student Learning Activity #3 Read text, read value cards, share examples of demonst-rating values – create and share bubble maps Gather Phase

Reflection: What values are important to you? What do they look like in action? Are you living to those values? What question could you ask about what you have learned? Gather Phase

How values affect your behavior. Student Learning Activity #5 Group poem, story, song, skit, art work or rap on at least four values Process Phase

Reflection: What did this activity tell you or reconfirm about your values? What surprised you? Is there anything else you would like to say to the class about your values and how they relate to your approach to life? What question could you ask about what you have learned? Process Phase

Student Learning Activity #7 Think about situations that have occurred and the behaviors you exhibited in the past that reflect your values Student Learning Activity #7 Write a Personal Code of Ethics using Personal Code of Ethics Assessment Task and scoring guide. Apply Phase

Student Learning Activity #7 (cont.) Values Activity Play Video 1 - The Making of a Leader In seven columns describe how Colin Powell exemplifies each value. Click on image to play. Apply Phase

Reflection: Can you relate to the Army values in your life today? How important are these values to you? How would you stay true to these values? What would these values look like in your home, school, community and/or JROTC unit? Apply Phase

Homework For one week at the end of the day reflect on and record observations related to the following questions: Were you living according to your values? What would you do differently? How could you correct situations where you felt you had not acted from values of principle? Apply Phase