"Your personal core values define who you are." -Tony Hsich

Based on the opinions of both parents and teachers, there are many who believe that the primary problem with many students today is that they have no moral compass. While there might be partial truths to the fact that students of today tend to be more liberal and less focused on morality, there is something to be said about the role educators play in teaching their students of all ages to grow to be respectable adults.

Steve Johnson from Santa Clara University says that schools have always been interested in helping students to develop skills, work on developing knowledge of important concepts, and forming pupils to become kind and reasonable people. This couldn't be more truthful since the best teachers that we recall are not only able to teach but also have the ability to motivate and inspire their students to have success in their personal life and in their educational careers.

Great teachers possess the ability of building strong character in their students.

Educators, both public school teachers and tutors, are all interested in building positive, productive citizens. A great tutor is not just a purveyor of academic know-how; they are someone who is often part teacher, part psychologist and part mentor. Teaching students to be responsible, committed individuals, is as important as helping them achieve their academic goals.

Without further ado, in today's article, we'll review how part-time or full-time tutors can make it their goal to teach values to their students.

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Why is the Formation of Values Important?

Teaching values is best done from an early stage since children are sponges that soak up all of the information they are taught. Therefore, it's in a teacher or tutor's best interest to form values for their primary school students. Let's take a look at a few reasons why the formation of values is such an important part of the student-tutor relationship.

Personal Values Are Valuable in the Job Market

Time and past experiences have shown that the most successful people aren’t necessarily those who achieve the best marks or exam results. Rather, countless jobs across various fields require a host of interpersonal skills, including making confident decisions, being a team player and having the ability to influence others.

Therefore, tutors should do their best to stress the importance of becoming good people to their students since they well know the importance of values. Academic instructors encourage their students to have the student’s ultimate goal in mind: achieving success in their chosen career and leading a happy, fulfilling life.

Teaching Values Encourages Positive Character Traits

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Positivity towards education and their teachers is something that tutors want to display while conducting lessons with their students. (Source: Unsplash)

When values such as honesty, respect, and kindness are taught to tutoring students as they simultaneously learn another academic discipline, they will improve their personalities quite quickly and develop beautiful character traits. Such as? Traits such as confidence, determination, discipline, commitment, selflessness, and resilience go hand-in-hand with some of the best values.

Tutors, the time you spend helping students to acquire life skills will have a lasting value long after the remedial courses or degrees are over. 

Positive Values are Contagious

Much of what students learn is by example. So, if they notice that you apply your knowledge of values, and not just for personal gain, but also to further a cause or help those in need, they may be inspired to do the same. The example you set as a tutor with good values is extremely contagious and will positively affect those around you.

Therefore, since positive values are infectious, teachers should not only show by example but also discuss the unique experiences they've had helping out local and international communities. Even if not all students go out and do amazing things, your stories might inspire some to help others and keep paying it forward generation after generation.

Teaching Students Values Builds Greater Self-Awareness

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By their example, tutors encourage students to do their best and develop qualities. (Source: Unsplash)

Of all teaching methods and techniques, the Socratic teaching method is particularly good at helping students to build stronger self-awareness. For instance, it’s not just a way to point out illogical or unethical arguments, it’s also a great way to discover what makes your students tick and to teach them how to think out of the box.

Asking them lots of questions about how they would react in given situations and how they can point out any illogical statements using deductive reasoning to enlighten them on their role in a democratic society. You could also introduce them to concepts such as the notion of universal truths, the Rule of Law or Platonic ideals of truth, beauty or goodness. These theories provide a fertile minefield for lively debate and discussion that encourages conversations about what's right and what's wrong.

The goal of moulding more self-aware and critical thinking individuals should be the goal of any tutor or teacher.

But, how exactly can new or experienced tutors teach values to their students? Let's take a look at the following subheading.

How Can Tutors Teach Values to Their Students?

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By displaying and encouraging small yet effective acts of kindness in the classroom, you'll teach your students a valuable lesson. (Source: Unsplash)

While it's one thing knowing that values should be taught to students, it's another thing to know how to teach values. By chatting with more experienced tutors and consulting well-written blog posts on education sites, such as this one, teachers work towards becoming better at imparting values to their pupils.

So, without any further delay, let's consider three ways values are taught to students in the traditional classroom or through private tutoring sessions.

Through Acts of Kindness

Core values such as kindness are shown to students by having positive and amicable interactions with the student's parents and members of staff. By doing this, educators are modelling the correct behaviour of good people to the kids they are instructing.

Also, in an education setting, small acts of kindness such as baking cookies for students, rewarding them for their hard work or allowing them to express themselves freely go a long way.

Encouraging Honesty

Honesty is the best policy! 

Another value or positive character trait that teachers want to show their students is honesty. As a teacher, when you're honest about your mistakes and your certain weaknesses, students learn that talking about these things without embellishing the truth is very feasible.

Also, by showing students that they won't get severely punished or reprimanded when confessing an error, they will see that openly discussing things in a truthful way is really the best.

Mention Important Core Values

One of the simplest ways that tutors instruct their students about core values is by mentioning them from the beginning. Letting students know about lesson policies and how everyone should be treated and what's expected in the classroom will show them that positive values are essential to the best classes with tutors.

Tutors need to let their students know that there is zero tolerance for bullying.

Also, some teachers have included boards with the words of core values such as honesty, kindness, consideration, respect, etc., in their classrooms.

In conclusion, we sincerely hope that the information provided in today's article will help tutors to teach values to their students along with course material in a successful manner.

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