Character Strength Cards

Ask your child to choose one strength to work on. Put the card on the fridge and during the week discuss ways that they have shown that character strengths.
Ask your child to spot the strengths in others. Have them choose cards to share with family and friends, with a reason they show that strength.
Ask your child which character strength they used that day and how.

Each individual selects a card and tells how they have used that strength in the preceding week.

Before a task, have students select which character strengths they will need to work on it. Display these cards.
Match character strengths with the Learner Profile attributes.
When reading a class book, keep track of the character strengths that a specific character shows - or of the shadow strengths that are shown by a non-hero.
Create our own “periodic table” of character strength symbols. Then use them to create a display and connect them to photos of people in the class to help you get an instant reading of people’s strengths.
Create a bar chart of the top three strengths of all students in your class.
When reflecting on a task, students can identify what character strengths they utilised and explain how they used it. Display their thinking on post-its around the cards.
After reading a book, reflect on the main characters using character strengths, and/or use human graph to agree/disagree on a particular character strength the character has shown, then justify their reasons by using evidence from the book.

Ask students to select their top six character strengths and create a triangle of them. Students share examples of times they have used a character strength. Continue by creating the bottom of the diamond with strengths the students need to work more on.
Have students think about their mentor/heros and identify the character strengths those individuals have. Then ask them to identify goals which will support them in practising those strengths. Display goals around the cards.
Secret buddies - At the start of the week, student are assigned a secret buddy who they observe throughout the week. At the end of the week, they each acknowledge their secret buddy for a character strength they noticed by placing a name card/photo around the cards.
Charades. Students pick one out and act it for their peers to guess
Pictionary
Rapidough
Taboo: have groups choose a character strength card. The group writes five words related to that character strength. One member of each group becomes the speaker. They secretly look at the character strength card and list from another group. Their aim is to describe the character strength to the rest of their group without using any of the five words listed.

Students who have not followed expectations to select character strengths that they did use in an incident. This may be as shadow strengths, or as misplaced strengths. Plan ways to use those strengths more effectively in the future.

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