Funded by the Department for Education (DfE), the Teaching Character Through Subjects project worked across England with 29 teachers from 28 state funded schools to create an innovative resource for building character within 14 subjects across the school curriculum. The Teaching Character Through Subjects report is available to download below: The materials were
The curriculum model which has been adopted in designing this course and its set of resources is inspired by Brunner’s Spiral Curriculum. The spiral curriculum model moves students through phases of personal experience and practice, information gathering and documentation, reflection, analysis and internalisation and informed action, and round again, as if
The Character Evaluation Handbook for Schools provides a practical introduction to the evaluation of character education in primary and secondary schools. It: Contents Overview Section 1: Planning an Evaluation – An introduction to self-evaluation which outlines important principles, limitations, and procedures. It also provides an overview of the nature of
The Jubilee Centre Framework for Character Education in Schools sets out the Centre’s position on character education, what it is, and why it is important. The Framework calls for all schools to make explicit how they go about developing pupils’ character. The Framework was first published in 2013, then revised in 2017, with the latest iteration being
Framework in Action The Framework in Action project was led by The Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues in partnership with five schools located across England, each with an exemplary character education provision. The purpose of the project was to demonstrate how the Jubilee Centre’s Framework for Character Education in Schools has been used
As part of Strand A of the current Teacher Education: Character and the Professional Development of Pre- and In-Service Teachers project, the Jubilee Centre, in consultation with teacher educators and trainee teachers, have designed, trialled and evaluated a Teacher Training Workshop lecture and a My Character Reflective Journal which can be used as part of
Character Education in Universities: A Framework for Flourishing sets out the Jubilee Centre’s position on the place of character education in universities. The Framework was developed in 2020 in partnership with the Oxford Character Project. The aim of the Framework is to help universities articulate and structure their mission to further the flourishing
Read Grow Go is a programme of study developed for pupils in Key Stage One (5-7 year olds). Each lesson uses a story as a stimulus to teach a different character virtue, focussing on: compassion, honesty, curiosity, independence, teamwork, perseverance, community awareness and service. The lessons provide teachers with resources,
The ‘Character in the Corpus’ series takes the body of prose fiction set at A-level to investigate how these texts represent virtue along with accompanying classroom resources that provide practical suggestions as to how these texts can be used in virtue literacy. Literature has been a source for numerous character education
As the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues celebrates its 10th anniversary year, this latest deeply practical research into what works in the teaching of character draws together a decade worth of research to continue to support successful character development in our schools. The Character Teaching Inventory presents a comprehensive overview