Teaching Tolerance and Respect

Tolerance and respect among young children is one of the most important things that you can teach them. I feel that teaching young students about what tolerance and respect is and why it is important is extremeley useful in future circumstances that they may face. There are so many children today who don't understand this concept, simply because it has not been taught to them They have not been taught that everyone is the same and that they should not make fun of someone else because of the color of their skin, their accent, or even the way they act. I feel that their us no better place than the classroom to teach these lessons. Home is another place where it is important for students to hear about what it means to have respect for others, and that is why I want to incorporate the parents into this lesson. I plan on keeping my students' parents up-to-date with what I am teaching their children so that they can continue the lesson at home. I feel that this is a very important topic that needs to be addresses both at home and in the classrom, and it needs to be the focus of many teachers as well.