You know the importance of teaching good manners, life skills and character in your classroom. We can no longer take the stand that life skills and manners should be taught at home. Yes, I agree, manners should be taught at home but in many cases, they are not.
Every child deserves to learn manners, don’t you think?
When you teach manners in your classroom,you take a massive stand and declare:
You value the well-being of your students
You want to make an impact on their social and emotional needs
You empower yourself by choosing a manners curriculum that allows you to customize a plan to teach manners and social skills
You are ready to transform your classroom and your students
Tips and Topics to Teach Good Manners in Your Classroom
Here are a few tips and topics to start teaching manners in your classroom. These tips can be used in any grade level.
Why Manners Matter: Start with the “why”. Have you downloaded our Free Lesson Plan? We provide a link by grade level below. You may use this in your classroom. This guides you on how to get started and provides you with the activities and handouts to get started.
Your goal is to teach and your students on “why” it is important to use good manners. You will have a discussion with your students to talk about kindness, how it feels on the inside when we use good manners, why it makes us feel confident, empathy, the action to take to make others feel comfortable and more.
Eye Contact: When you teach eye contact, you will see an immediate difference. Children need to told and shown in many cases. You will see their face light up when you teach eye contact. If you teach Preschool or Kindergarten, kneel down on your knees and actually look at them in the eye to show them what it looks like.
Eye contact shows others we are confident, are listening and we care.
Handshakes: Have you considered starting your day with a handshake and greeting each student with a handshake in the morning? Doing this provides so many teachable moments. You can teach eye contact, handshakes and conversation skills within a few seconds for each student.
Would you like to teach manners in your classroom? We guide you every step of the way. It is easy. All the work is done for you.
Now is the time to start. We offer an affordable curriculum and if you purchase before September 30, 2019, you can use a COUPON CODE for a discount. The COUPON CODE IS MTG10.
Here are your next steps:
Choose your grade level: We offer all grade levels:
Choose your package: We offer the following lesson plans and bundle options for each grade level:
First Impressions
Communication Skills
Table Manners
Bundle of all three
Download, Teach and Transform:Our curriculum is downloadable. Once the order is processed, you can begin teaching. Our manners lesson plans are easy to customize. You may teach for an entire semester, 10 minutes a week or focus on the modules for an entire month.
Our curriculum is used for after school programs too.
Manners Curriculum and Lesson Plans for High School Students
Watch the Video Below for 3 Tips to Teach Manners in Your Classroom
Our video today discusses three important tips that you can easily teach in your classroom. The video is below in the “Links and Resources” section below.
High School students need good manners. We are here to guide you on making a meaningful mark on today’s youth.
Tips on How to Make a Good First Impression for High School Students
Eye Contact: A very important basic skill every high school student needs to use.
Conversation skills: One of the most requested topics, conversation skills are important to build relationships and to function as an adult.
Posture: A very important part of a first impression is posture. Guide your students to sit up straight. Watch the video for a “live” instruction.
Our work is featured in the New York Times, Parents Magazine, The Huffington Post, Fox News Channel and the Today Show website. We develop curriculum for all grade levels.
We are here to help you make a meaningful mark on today’s youth.
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Life Skills | Character Education | Social Emotional Learning
It is not a secret that teaching manners in your classroom will transform your students.
Maybe you have thought about teaching manners in your classroom already…only to get tripped up by all the research you need to do such as:
Creating the lesson plans
Finding the handouts that are relevant and age appropriate
The suggested dialogue to make it easy for you
And of course all the other things that it will lead to such as the supplies that you might need
The thought of it might make you want to hide in the teacher’s lounge and not come out for a few days! Especially when you have so many other things to think about such as your lesson plans, reading programs, setting your classroom up and not to mention getting your own family ready for school to start.
I have been teaching manners to children for years so I have learned a think or two and I am about to share the process with you.
Today, I am making an announcement that will save the day. This is a BIG DEAL. You will not want to miss this.
Take a step back and don’t be overwhelmed by something else that you have to teach. We have your back on this one.
We have a step-by-step process that we promise will make you the hero at your school. Who doesn’t want to make a difference for students?
Your students need your help on this one.
Are you wondering what this is all about? Well, you are in luck!
An Important Manners Lesson for the First Day of School: Preparing for the New Student in Your Classroom
Have you ever been the new student at school? It is not easy. Today’s article and video (below) gives tips on how to involve your students while at the same time providing a lesson on using good manners at school.
Put yourself in the shoes of the new student. Wouldn’t it be nice to have some personal attention during this tough transition?
By becoming aware of the new students, it gives your students the chance to practice:
Good character
Kindness
Empathy
Manners
Respect for others
Life skills
Conversation skills
Involve your students. Ask their thoughts on how they can help someone integrate into your school. Here are some ideas:
Tips to Help the New Student at School
Choose a student: Select a student to sit with the new person during lunch for the first week of school.
A list of questions: As a class, create a list of questions to ask the new student. This is a great exercise and promotes conversation skills.
Show them around: Instead of handing the new student a map or nothing at all, provide a human touch and have a student show them how to proceed through the line at the cafeteria, walk them to the library and where the restrooms are located.
Print and customize to meet the needs of your students and timeframe. You decide how many modules to teach at at time. You may teach a lesson for 10 minutes or an entire week at a designated time. Many schools use our curriculum for after school programs.
Teach and Transform. Read testimonials from other educators. All the praise is located on our website.
Watch the video for more ideas and teachable moments to use in your classroom:
Our work is featured in the New York Times, Parents Magazine, The Huffington Post, Fox News Channel and the Today Show website. We develop teaching curriculum for all grade levels.
We are here to help guide you on making a meaningful mark on today’s youth.
Etiquette Tips: Getting Children Ready for “Take Your Sons and Daughters to Work Day”
Social Emotional Learning | Character Education | Life Skills
The “Take Your Sons and Daughters to Work Day” program is a national organization that partners with companies to host our children in the workplace. The program offers children the chance to see what happens in an office environment. Many observe their parents at work.
This year the event is Thursday, April 25, 2019.
Are your students taking the day off to be with their parents? If you are a parent, are your children heading to work with you on Thursday?
Etiquette Tips on How to Guide Students to a Successful and Fun Day at the Office
Practice eye contact, a good handshake, and standing up for introductions. Explain to your students about the importance of getting along with others.
Conversation starters: They will be meeting new children and co-workers. To include others and be included is very important. Popular questions: Where do you go to school? Do you play sports? How many pets do you have? What is your favorite movie?
Keep in mind the office dress code. Remember first impressions are very important. A conservative outfit is the best choice in this situation.
Table manners: Chew with your mouth closed. The napkin belongs in the lap and elbows off the table.
Have your students/child write thank you notes: to the personnel that were involved in making it a special day.
Would you like to learn more about teaching manners and etiquette in your classroom?
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About Manners To Go
Most likely we already share something in common. We believe that teaching children manners, character and social emotional skills are very important.
Manners To Go™ is a full-service company for those choosing to teach manners to children. You can make a difference. All children and teenagers deserve to feel what it is like to be confident, and use good manners out in the world.
Manners To Go™ is taught in public, private and charter schools around the world. The New York Times, Parents Magazine and Fox News have all featured Manners To Go and the many benefits of teaching social skills to children.
Whether you are an educator who wants to teach it in the classroom or someone who is looking to become trained and certified, we provide all the solutions.
My name is Lisa Richey, and I am the founder of Manners To Go™ . This brand has given me the honor of teaching manners to thousands of people around the world. The journey has taken me from Portland, Oregon to the Middle East. I believe that manners are not about judgment or rules. Manners are about self-interest. It really is about how using good manners makes you feel on the inside.
Helping You Make a Meaningful Mark on Today’s Youth
Social Emotional Learning | Character Education | Social Skills
Your job as an elementary teacher is important.I know because my mother taught second grade for over 36 years.
She worked all the time.I even remember going to the store for teachers to buy supplies.
A great deal falls on your shoulders.
Test scores, parent conferences, not to mention your own family.
That is why today, we would like to share tips on how to teach eye contact and empathy in your classroom.
Yes, the two lesson plans can be combined.
Here is how to teach both eye contact and empathy in your classroom.
I was working in the classroom with elementary teachers.One specifically asked for a lesson plan on saying “excuse me”.She went on to tell me that her students will say it and keep moving.She pointed out the importance of having the student make eye contact while saying “excuse me”.
I have been teaching it this way ever since.It was a teachable moment for me.
Whether you are saying “excuse me” because you need to interrupt or because you have stepped on a toe or need someone to move, it is so important to look in them in the eye…..make contact.Here is why:so the other person knows you mean it.Yes, it is that simple.It is a gesture that makes a difference.
Tip: Teacher to Teacher
Teaching eye contact and empathy at the same time is easy to set up as a role-playing activity. Eye contact and empathy are an every day gesture. It needs to be pointed out to your students when they do it….naturally during their daily activities and interaction with other students. You can also point this out when you make the gesture of eye contact and express empathy.
As an educator, you know how important social skills are for a child’s success.
Children who are polite, well spoken, and attentive to others find it easier to get along with their peers and make a positive impression on the adults in their lives.
As a result, more opportunities come their way, laying the foundation for future success in life.
Yet too many children are not being taught proper manners or other valuable social skills at home. Which means it’s up to us as educators to equip them with these important life tools – and help them grow up to be responsible, caring, successful global citizens.
We want to help you. It takes time to research. Our lesson plans are accurate, comprehensive, provide scripted dialogue and of course, include all the handouts needed. 21st Century Skills are on each lesson plan.
Most likely we already share something in common. We believe that teaching children manners, character and social emotional skills are very important.
Manners To Go™ is a full-service company for those choosing to teach manners to children. You can make a difference. All children and teenagers deserve to feel what it is like to be confident, and use good manners out in the world.
Manners To Go™ is taught in public, private and charter schools around the world. The New York Times, Parents Magazine and Fox News have all featured Manners To Go and the many benefits of teaching social skills to children.
Whether you are an educator who wants to teach it in the classroom or someone who is looking to become trained and certified, we provide all the solutions.
My name is Lisa Richey, and I am the founder of Manners To Go™ . This brand has given me the honor of teaching manners to thousands of people around the world. The journey has taken me from Portland, Oregon to the Middle East. I believe that manners are not about judgment or rules. Manners are about self-interest. It really is about how using good manners makes you feel on the inside.
Manners Curriculum: Available for All Grade Levels
Lisa Richey provides etiquette programs to businesses, schools, and individuals.