ABSTRACT
As mentioned in Reality Check, your behavior influences students, and your role in students’ lives places you in the unique position of modeling the type of person and citizen you would like each one to be someday. You do not have to be perfect by any means, but embrace the opportunity to model honesty, integrity, caring, and community to your still-growing and learning students.
Teachers with character serve as role models for telling the truth, respecting others, accepting and fulfilling responsibilities, playing fair, earning and returning trust, and living a moral life.
—Angela Lumpkin (2008), Professor, Health, Sport, and Exercise Sciences, University of Kansas