Essay (IELL3)

The Influences of Character Building for Students

In the School

            Character building is the education about character of the students and how to educate the students, not only for their knowledge about the lesson but also the important thing is to educate the character of the students. Character building is one of the important things which has big influence in human development. The best time to do character building for human is from the childhood period. We know that, childhood is the first step in human development. So, in that time the children will easy to receive anything that he learned. The parents have to build the character of their children since that time. The teachers have to contribute in this chase, because the teacher is the educator in the school. In that period, the human character will start to be built. Character building will give many effects to the students.Character building is so important for the children to pass their life, behavior and their environment.Many studies said that the perfect time to build character in children is when they are less than 10 years old (In elementary school). Facts prove that School can help and improve character building in children. Actually there are several influences of character building for student.

            One of the influences of character building for students is the students will have the capability to manage their social and emotion including their environment.“Emotion is every intense feeling or affection that occurs when a person is in an important situation or circumstances or relationship”. (Campos, Frankel &Camras 2007 in Santrock, 2008, 155).If the students get a good character building, and the teacher can give it to the students.students will have a good character and will reduce the risk for students to have bad behavior, like the act to break the rule in the school and social rule. The teachers have to educate the students about emotional intelligence. “Emotional intelligent is the abilities to identify emotions accurately in ourselves and in other people, understand emotions and emotional language, manage emotion in ourselves and in other people, and use emotions to facilitate cognitive activities and motivate adaptive behavior”.(John D Mayer and Peter Salovey). The students who can manage their social and emotion, they will easy to make friend and have a good communication with others. They will have good behavior and attitude in environment of their school. They will becomepolite students that have good relation with others. They will be disposed to obey the rule in the school and also obey what the teachers said. Many studies said that most of the success students are the students who have the capability to manage their social and emotion.

            A good mental is also another influence from character building. A good mental will be got by the students who have good character building from their environment, exactly in school.Mental is pertinent with internal and character of the human, it is not about body or power. Mental is important thing that will give a significance effect to build their character and their capability to live in social environment.Moreover for the child, this is very important for them. Because mental is a part of soul that will give many influence to the students. One of the function of mental is mental can increase the feeling of confidence. For the examples, the student which has high mental he will be stronger student and can stand many disturbances from other students, like mucking, bullies, etc. But it is very contrast withthe student who didn’t have high mental, he seems brittle, mushy and he will easy to give up if there is a problem and cannot stand every disturbances from his peer. That is way, the mental is very important for the students.

            Another positive effect is good manner. Actually every person is requirement it, the person who has good manner, he will easy to live in social environment. He will easy to make friend, and he will get many respect from other. So, good manner has to build since child, because it is important to every person. The student who has good manner will have many friends in his school. He will have good relations with his friends and his friends will feel comfort to make friend with him. Actually we know that there are many positive effects from character building for children. Self-confidence is also has high influence to the child. With character building, it can increase the confidence of the children. Character building will make children’s confidence higher and higher. It is very good for children that have high confidence, they won’t be mousy children. The student which has high confidence, they tend to dare to try and will show their capability in public. They didn’t shy when they are wrong, and they will try to correct their mistakes and they will have spirit to learn more anything that they want. They didn’t shy to ask to other to get knowledge and make clear every doubt in their mind. This is a good capital for students in their future. They will get many advantages if they have high confidence.

            To conclude, it is very important to build human character since in the first step / period that is in school since they are still child. Because, we know that character building has many influences for students’ development. The capability to manage their social and emotion including their environment, good mental, good manner and Self-confidence are some influences from character building for the students in the school. Because character building is very important and has many influence to the students. The teachers have to pay attention and give some subjects about character building for educating their students, more over for the teachers who teach in first level (in kinder garden or Elementary school).  The teachers who teach in that level have to give and educate character building to their students. It is important because the best time to build character in humans is since they are child. In this chase, not only the teachers that have to take part, but also the family, exactly their parents.

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