Children's Virtues Project
Children's Virtues Project
The Children’s Virtues Project, between the years of 2008-2012, trained 1,747 teachers and 252 principles from Tianshui, Gansu Province. Two-hundred primary schools and kindergartens offered weekly Children's Virtues classes to 61,000 children.
The Children's Virtues Project was designed to awaken a sense of personal and communal responsibility among children and spark their drive for excellence. Children from kindergarten to Grade 3 engaged in character-building exercises which highlighted different virtues, such as Courtesy, Responsibility, Truthfulness, and Helpfulness. The Children's Virtues program was specially developed to target early education and considered how children of different ages process and learn with a curriculum comprised of songs, games and interactive activities to teach virtues.
To support teachers who have been trained in the Children's Virtues curriculum in their teaching, the Children's Virtues Project sent trainers three to four times each year to observe classes, and engage with both teachers and students to continually strengthen their virtues training and to localize the virtues teaching.
