Resources - Values Education for Children and Young Adults

LVEP

In the Living Values Activities for Children and Young Adults books, twelve values are explored: Peace, Respect, Cooperation, Freedom, Happiness, Honesty, Humility, Love, Responsibility, Simplicity, Tolerance, and Unity. Reflective and imagining activities encourage students to access their own creativity and inner gifts. Communication activities teach students to implement peaceful social skills. Artistic activities, songs, and dance inspire students to express themselves while experiencing the value of focus. Game-like activities are thought-provoking and fun; the discussion time that follows those activities helps students explore effects of different attitudes and behaviors. Other activities stimulate awareness of personal and social responsibility and, for older students, awareness of social justice. The development of self-esteem and tolerance continues throughout the exercises. Educators are encouraged to utilize their own rich heritage while integrating values into everyday activities and the curriculum.

Health Communications, Inc. published five books of LVEP in March of 2001. In October 2001 this series of five books on values education published earlier this year won The Teachers? Choice Award.

Overviews of these books are available from the following pages

Living Values Activities for Children Ages 3-7
Living Values Activities for Children Ages 8-14
Living Values Activities for Young Adults
Living Values Parent Groups: A Facilitator Guide
LVEP Educator Training Guide

View Introductions - LVEP Introductory Segments

Educators and people interested in LVEP's Living Values Activities books may view selected segments. The current six LVEP books are

Living Values Activities for Children, Ages 3-7*,
Living Values Activities for Children, Ages 8-14*,
Living Values Activities for Young Adults*,
LVEP Educator Training Guide,
Living Values Parent Groups: A Facilitator Guide*, and
Living Values Activities for Refugees and Children-Affected-by-War

* Introductory Segments available in pdf format
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Overview of Living Values Activities for Children Ages 3-7

Living Values Activities for Children Ages 3-7*
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View Introduction Edition - pdf

29 pages, 257 kb

Children at this age level naturally develop values-based behaviors in a values-based atmosphere. The activities include circle groups with discussion and reflection on values, but primarily offer the opportunity to enjoy and explore the values through "Quietly Being" exercises, stories, songs, games, movement, and other values activities. Activities for interpersonal social skills development, including conflict resolution, are included. Activities foster the development of peaceful, cooperative social skills, involving the children not only cognitively and socially, but also artistically. Educators can send for cassettes of songs to accompany the book. Some activities are appropriate for children two years of age.

Overview of Living Values Activities for Children Ages 8-14

Living Values Activities for Children Ages 8-14*
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View Introduction Edition - pdf

38 pages, 344 kb

A "teacher friendly" book, it contains goals and objectives, scripted daily values lessons, stories, games, and ideas for a Values Faire. Values are explained in both simple and abstract ways. Children experience values through imagining exercises, focusing exercises, and songs. Peaceful social skills and cooperative behaviors are positively developed through discussion, play, cooperative games, and applying social skills. Making values their own is nurtured through artistic activities, creative writing, and skits.

Overview of Living Values Activities for Young Adults

Living Values Activities for Young Adults*
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View Introduction Edition - pdf

39 pages, 248 kb

A wide range of issues and personal and emotional skills are broached in this program in order to involve students 15-years and older in an enjoyable but serious exploration of values in relation to the self, others, the society, and the world. Core values lessons are offered in addition to ideas for different subject areas. Click below to see the twenty goals outlined in Living Values Activities for Young Adults, and the complete list of lessons, "steps", toward achieving those.

View Goals and steps for achieving those goals in the Living Values Activities for Young Adult Goals - pdf

15 pages, 162 kb

Overview of Living Values Parent Groups: A Facilitator Guide

Living Values Parent Groups: A Facilitator Guide*
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View Introduction Edition containing Parent Values Activities for Ages 0- through 2-year olds, Peace, and Parenting Skills. pdf

38 pages, 344 kb

This book offers both process and content for facilitators interested in conducting Parent Values Group with parents and caregivers to further understanding and skills important in encouraging and positively developing values in children. There are three sections. The first section describes content and activities for an introductory session, and a six-step process for the exploration of each value. In this process, parents and caregivers reflect on their own values and how they "live" and teach those values. The second section offers suggestions regarding values activities the parents can play in the group, and ideas for parents to explore at home. In the group sessions, parents play the games their children will play and learn additional methods to foster value-related social and emotional skills at home. In the third section, common parenting concerns are addressed, as are particular skills to deal with those concerns. There is a small section on the needs of children from ages 0 to 2.

Overview of Living Values: An Eduactional Program Educator Training Guide

LVEP Educator Training Guide
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This guide contains the variety of workshops found within LVEP Educator Trainings. Sessions include values awareness, creating a values-based atmosphere, values activities, and skills for creating such an atmosphere. LVEP's theoretical model and the rationale behind the variety of activities is presented. Sample training agendas are offered for one-, two-, and three-day educator training programs and a five-day train-the-trainer session.

Living Values Activities for Refugees and Children-Affected-by-War *
This program for children-affected-by-war is a unique series of activities that gives children and young adults an opportunity to begin the healing process while learning about peace. Sixty lessons provide tools to release and begin to deal with grief while developing positive adaptive social and emotional skills with the values of peace, respect and love. There is also a section on camp-wide strategies, offering suggestions that could be implemented in refugee camps. This includes strategies to create a culture of peace, values education groups for parents/caregivers, cooperative games, and supporting conflict resolution monitors. Teachers are encouraged to do the regular living values activities after the sixty lessons are completed.

Learn about the results when used by Karen refugee teachers in Thailand.

People interested in the program may email content@livingvalues.net. Prior to using this program, the culture and circumstances of the refugees is considered so that the materials can be adapted if necessary.

LVE materials have been translated into many languages. The current set of six books is available in English. Translation is ongoing in Arabic, Cambodian, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Karen, Malay, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, and Vietnamese. Should you wish books in one of these languages please contact an LVE Country Coordinator in the country which uses that language. (See "Support Near You")

Living Values Educators' Kit - 1997 Edition

Educators? Manual The original Living Values Educators? Kit includes this English translation of a 91-page Spanish publication entitled Valorous Para Vivir, Manual para Educadores. Developed and written by Pilar Quera Colomina ? whose 27 years? experience encompasses pre-primary, primary, and secondary levels of education, the Educators? Manual provides ideas, proposals, and experiences to promote working with values within the educational community. The content includes cross-cultural experiences in both formal and non-formal learning settings. Many concepts from this section have been incorporated in the LVE

Authors

*These materials were developed and written by Diane Tillman, an Educational Psychologist who worked in a California public school system, USA, for 23 years. Diane travels widely internationally, training educators about the LVE process and lecturing on personal development. She is LVE's International Coordinator for Content. She has served the United Nations Association - USA at the local, regional, and national levels.

Educators around the world contributed activities to the expanded 1999/2000 edition of Living Values Activities books. While Diane Tillman is the primary author of the six LVE books, two of the books have co-authors. Diana Hsu is the co-author of Living Values for Children, Ages 3-7, and Pilar Quera Colomina is the co-author of LVEPilar Quera Colomina is the Living Values Education Coordinator for Spain. She travels widely internationally, training educators and community members about the Living Values process. Her 27 years? experience teaching in schools encompasses pre-primary, primary, and secondary levels. Pilar is also the author of Manual para Educadores I and II.

Diana Hsu is a teacher who has worked with children aged 2- through 14- for the last 24 years in Germany, Hong Kong, Singapore, and the United Kingdom. She began writing stories for children ten years ago. The activities and stories she contributed were field tested in several countries.

Living Values Education welcomes your suggestions and invites participation at all levels. When viewed as an ongoing process, values-based education becomes part of a lifelong learning experience. Many opportunities can be found to integrate values-based education into existing curricula. These will vary from place to place according to cultural needs. It is in the spirit of cooperation that the Program was founded, recognizing we learn from one another. We would like to thank all those who have contributed their time and energy to the Program.

Living Values Education
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Materials and Resources

Living Values Activities for Street Children