Teaching Generosity With Current Events

It can be as basic as asking little children to share their toys. It can be as complicated as lecturing on the difference between largesse and openhandedness. Teaching generosity becomes easier and far more fascinating when you use stories from the day’s news. In fact, character education teachers who want to inject reality when teaching generosity will find present events a valuable tool.

Teaching Generosity Synonyms

Teaching generosity synonyms can be a constructive beginning to your character education effort if care is taken to define terms. Several words on the lists we use when teaching generosity synonyms are not truly the same as the character trait.

Look at this list of twenty-five synonyms and see if you can establish which ones mean the identical as the character trait.

 

abundance
affluence
altruism
beneficence
benevolence
bigness
bounty
charitableness
charity
free of charge giving
goodnes
heart
high-mindedness
hospitality
kindness
largesse
enjoy
magnanimity
munificence
nobleness
openhandedness
philanthropy
prodigality
readiness
unselfishness

 

The Character Trait Defined

This is a character trait that works from an understanding of true great, proactively performing for other people things that are advantageous, even when it demands personal sacrifice on the portion of the person exercising the trait.

Existing Events Examples

Current events are filled with examples.

Today’s news reports that the head of a well-recognized charity pocketed a salary of one million dollars although watching his charity close its doors. Such a story shines a spotlight on the negative of stinginess. Even little youngsters will realize. 1 man was so greedy that he let many other people suffer even though he lived well. He refused to make personal sacrifice. Instead, he closed the doors on a charity that was helping others.

Yet another negative story from today’s news is the revelation that whilst North Koreans starve, their leader sends his men to Europe on normal shopping sprees. Those shopping sprees are not for food to assist his nation, but rather to buy luxury cars, gold-plated weapons, costly furniture, and the finest food available for the leader himself.

Will need a lot more? A positive story that will assist educators who are teaching generosity is that of the woman offering her community totally free horseback riding. Her horse farm often charges sixty-five dollars an hour for the privilege, but on Wednesday evenings, everyone rides free of charge. On Wednesday evenings, the woman who owns the farm sacrifices her income for the excellent of those who can’t afford the basic pleasure of a relaxing ride.

Conclusion

Teaching generosity this month in character education class? Read your newspaper, watch Television news, or search the Net for existing events. They will make your lesson relevant and memorable.

© 2010, Elizabeth L Hamilton. Elizabeth invites you to read about other character traits at http://www.character-in-action.com. Elizabeth has posted numerous articles there about high moral values. If you would like to find out much more aboutteaching generosity, you won’t want to miss her post on that subject.

 

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