How to Develop a Values Systems

Helping Schools and Students develop values systems

Developing a set of values is an important part of life and without guidance, it can be easy for kids to accept antisocial behaviour as normal. It’s not about creating robots that all think the same but about why we should accept some things and not accept others. It’s about developing integrity and becoming a person who acts when they see injustice or getting on with a job that needs doing.

Hatred can lead to violence but empathy can lead to understanding and unity. This guide on values will show how you can help students develop their own set of values based on time-honoured, universally accepted principles without a great deal of effort from teachers.

This “School and Personal Values Development Kit” includes several resources that will help towards giving students and teachers all that is needed to make developing pro-social values a day of life. It also includes guides on why current “curriculum values” are not actually values.

“Teachers are encouraged to develop learning experiences that provide students with opportunities to learn about values and develop value-related capabilities.” (Ministry of Education). This kit of guides shows you how.

They will be shown what each of the values means, how they relate to each other and society and how they can adapt these elements into their personal values system, their learning habits and everyday situations.

Learning subjects is one thing, learning to live in another but both can easily be combined with these guidelines.

Suitable for all levels of teaching, primary to secondary.

Some guidelines in the download file include:

• What values are and how they are developed
• Ecological Sustainability
• How to develop values (integrity, respect, honesty, empathy, etc)
• A look at other values
• Using the values in the classroom
• Develop a school-wide commitment to the values of your community.

Get set to help your students and your school set values to live and learn by.