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Character
Spotlight
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Roslyn
Dobey
 Roslyn Dobey is a fifth
grade teacher at Naramake Elementary School, Norwalk
Connecticut. Mrs. Dobey is eager to help students develop
good character. She seizes opportunities to make daily
instruction about good character engaging for students. Mrs.
Dobey also understands the importance of involving students in
cooperative learning.
Mrs. Dobey collaborated with Deb Line and John
Moses from Saxe Middle School, New Canaan, to form
a partnership through the LINKS program sponsored by
the Nature Center in New Canaan. Under the LINKS program,
students from urban and suburban communities work together in
group settings. Mrs. Dobey’s fifth grade class and a fifth
grade class from Saxe Middle School collaborated in a Character
Counts 2000 workshop. During the four workshop series,
students worked in teams to examine traditional fables
focusing on virtues, diversity, and morality. Student teams
selected a virtue to highlight and then wrote skits or created
original fables. They shared ideas, brainstormed, compromised,
used their creativity, and developed writing skills. Students
presented their skits and fables during an on-stage
presentation. This activity was an effective strategy to help
students learn to work cooperatively as well as share concepts
of good character. We commend Mrs. Dobey and her colleagues
for their efforts to keep “Ethics in Action!”
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