BEHAVIORS AND VALUES

OBJECTIVE

Students will identify and recognize attributes that we as a society see as desirable in individuals, such as honesty, responsability and other important values, and analyze their personal values.

Do you know the meaning of VALUE?

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RESPECT

• Having respect means you feel positively toward a person because of how they affect others. For example:

• You may have respect for a person that treats other people kindly

• Someone who worked hard to achieve something

• Someone who overcame a challenge

Being respectful means you act in a way that shows care for how your actions may impact others. We can show respect for people, places, and things. For example:

• Using kind or polite words even when you're upset

• Using manners like sharing, waiting your turn, saying please and thank you

• Accepting difference or at least disagreeing with kind words

• Being careful not to damage places or things

• Using a quiet voice or calm behavior in public places

• Sharing resources, only taking what you really need

HONESTY

• Honesty means you don't say things about people that aren't true. You are not being honest if you make up or share rumors about someone.

• Being honest means you admit to your actions, even if you'll get in trouble.

• Honesty means you explain how a situation really happened. You are not being honest if you say something happened one way when it really happened another way.

RESPONSABILITY

• It means you do the things you are supposed to do and accept the results of your actions.

• A responsibility: something you are expected to do

• Being responsible: doing the things you are supposed to do

• Accepting responsibility: taking the praise or the blame for something you have done

LOYALTY

• Being loyal doesn’t require us to like or believe all the same things. When you’re loyal, friends feel they can trust you and that you won’t betray them – even if you disagree with them

• Being loyal might mean that we have to put other people's best interests before our own; in other words we might have to sacrifice something to protect the bonds that we share with others and value so much.

COMPUTER vs. HUMAN

I AM A COMPUTER

  I am a Computer. I would like to be a person just like you so that way we could talk. I say I am a Computer and I cannot be more than a Computer. I would be nothing, if it was not for the electronic engineer that created me, I cannot be something else, nor can I perfect myself by myself.

  You, on the other hand, are a human being. And even though we do have in common that we were both created, the differences between you and I are abysmal.

  You were created “intelligent” and “free”; able to know, to reason, to take decisions by yourself. This is your own being that you cannot change: you will always be a human being. However, because you are a person, you have infinite possibilities to perfect and/or deteriorate yourself! What I mean is that, in your hands, you have the power to decide “your own way of being” and to use them wisely, mainly at school and home.

 You can choose between being:

• Responsible or Irresponsible  

• Friend or Enemy    

• Loyal or Traitor

• Strong or Weak

• Sincere or Hypocrite

• Generous or Egoistic

• Happy or Sad  

ARE YOU READY FOR THE QUESTIONS?

Multiple Choice

1.- Who created the Computer?

• a) A mechanic.

• b) An electronic engineer.

• c) A programmer.

Multiple Choice

2.- Human beings are free due to our ability to:

• a) Take decisions by ourselves.

• b) Know.

• c) Reason.

Multiple Choice

3.- The Computer:

• a) Can perfect itself.

• b) Can improve with time.

• c) Cannot perfect itself by itself.

Multiple Choice

4.- Human beings:

• b) Came to being out of nowhere

• a) Were created

• c) Were created by an engineer.

Multiple Choice

5.- The opposite of generous is:

• c) Irresponsible.

• b) Intolerant.

• a) Egoistic.

Open Ended

Where can you use the values that we learnt?

To Conclude:

You have chosen the universal values that belong to every human being. Conquering these values must be the reason for all of your efforts.

    In sum, it is about reaching your fullest human potential. I must warn you that progressing in one of these virtues also means progressing in many others. They do not exist by themselves; they are interrelated. Some support each other. C’mon! It is worth it!