RELATIONAL VIRTUE GROUP

Because I value others as those whom Christ created and redeemed, I choose to treat them as I would like to be treated.

 

How To Treat People

Cooperation

God made us to enjoy playing and working together. When we cooperate with each other we are more successful and happy. We do best when we work together using everyone's talents.

 

I choose to cooperate with others with teamwork and trust.

 

Definition

Cooperation related virtues: Alliance, collaboration, enthusiasm, happily doing my part, harmony, unity, partnership, synergy, teamwork, community.

 
Artwork Music

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Side by Side
Together Let Us Sweetly Live, SDAH 451

Student Life Applications


Students working together to do any task:

Caring for the younger children: feeding, playing, carrying.
Helping with the house keeping, the laundry, the yard work, the rice field, sweeping the floor, washing the dishes.
 

Bible, E.G. White

Isaiah 41:6 They helped every one his neighbour;
1 Corinthians 3:9 We are labourers together with God:
2 Corinthians 6:1 We then, as workers together with him, .........

“Cooperation should be the spirit of the schoolroom, the law of its life. The teacher who gains the co-operation of his pupils secures an invaluable aid in maintaining order.” ED 286
“God wishes us to have the mastery over ourselves. But He cannot help us without our consent and co-operation.” AA 483
“He has honored us by making us co-workers with Him. He has ordained that there should be a necessity for the cooperation of men, that they may keep in exercise their benevolence.” 3T 391
“Let there be more praying, believing, and receiving, and more working together with God.” 6T 66
“United with one another, working together in harmony for the salvation of men, we shall indeed be "laborers together with God."” 8T 240
“There is need of two working together; for one can encourage the other, and they can counsel, pray, and search the Bible together.” RH 1893-07-04. 7
“The husband is the house-band of the home treasures, binding by his strong, earnest, devoted affection the members of the household, mother and children, together in the strongest bonds of union.. ST 1877-09-13. 8
“Angelic agencies, though invisible, are co-operating with visible human agencies, forming a relief association with men.” 6T 456
“There should be cooperation on the part of parent, children, and teachers.” TSS 20
Parents should seek to gain the cooperation of their children.GCB.1899-04-01.18
“The Lord has wrought with you, enabling you to act your part as His workman; but there are other workmen also who are to act their part as His nstrumentalities. These help to compose the whole body. All are to be united as parts of one great organism.” 8T 174
“ The family firm is a sacred social industry, in which each member is to act a part, each helping the other. KC 11 (Kress Collection, 1895)

Reinforcing Stories

Great Stories for Kids I, pp. 108, 143, by Jerry Thomas
Uncle Arthur's Bedtime Stories III, p. 9, by Arthur S. Maxwell
"Jimmy Boy and Grandfather", "Painting the Way", "Loving and Trusting", Treasury of Devotional Aids for Home and School
June 25, Sure as the Dawn by Mansell and Mansell

 

Student Activities

1. Two kids using one hand each tie shoe laces for a third person.
2. Practice choral reading.
3. Decorate cookies in production line, a. cutters, b. setters, chocolate chippers, sprinklers, one siver star. Then bake and eat.
 

Links to the Curriculum
Home Economics: Working in a family trains you to work in a church.
Language arts: Group discussions.
Math: Use of grouping for more than 2 addends makes finding the sum easier, grouping individuals could make the task easier.
Music: Use both hands togetehr to play beautiful music. Use several members together to make beautiful gospel.
PE: The team must work together to win. The church must work together to win others to the gospel.
Science: Bees and ants cooperate in their worlds. We should cooperate in the church.
Social Studies: Family structure needs cooperation as Moses sought cooperation of Israelites.
 

Resources


Great Stories for Kids, by Jerry Thomas, PPPA, 1999
Uncle Arthur's Bedtime Stories, by Arthur S. Maxwell, R&H, 1964
Treasury of Devotional Aids for Home and School by Department of Education of General Conference of SDA, 1951
Sure as the Dawn by Mansell and Mansell, R&H, 1993

 

Evaluation

Primary:
Tell or write two ways that show that God is cooperative.
Tell or write about a time when you saw someone show cooperation.
Tell or write about when you showed cooperation like God would do.
Tell or write about when you saw the hurt and unhappiness when someone was not cooperative:
How do you think God feels when He sees people who are cooperative?
How do you feel when you are cooperative?
Tell two ways that you can show cooperation.
What makes you want to be cooperative?
What is the opposite of cooperation? Who makes us act that way?
Finish the sentence: We can be cooperative when we..........

Middle:
Why does God care if I am cooperative?
What difference does it make whether I am cooperative or not?
What effect would it have on my future if I did not choose to be cooperative?
How would people treat me differently if I did or didn’t choose to be cooperative?
How would I feel about myself if I did or did not choose to be cooperative?
Give some reasons why you think it is best to be cooperative. Why would someone do differently?
What makes choosing to be cooperative better than the opposite?
List some ways that a person might be cooperative without anyone noticing?
List 3 situations where a person could be cooperative in his work, home, or at the shopping mall.
Is it possible for a person to get better at being cooperative? Explain.
Can you think of someone who seems good at being cooperative? What makes them better at it?
How could you learn to be better at being cooperative with others?
How often do you show cooperation? Think of the last three times and tell me.
Do you like to join in when people are being cooperative? How have you joined in?

High school:
Would you practice cooperation if no one was checking on you? Your parents, school, or the law?
What is the alternative to cooperation and what do you see as the results of that choice?
Would you recognize it if someone was not fully cooperative? How?
Would you keep quiet if someone paid you a lot of money not to be cooperative?
Are you proud to be cooperative and willing to tell others how you feel?
If someone in a group spoke out against cooperation would you speak up to give the other side?
Are you willing to put some money toward supporting cooperation in your city, class, work?
Can you say that being cooperative has become a habit? How often are you that way?
What effect do you think cooperation will have on your future life?
Do you see your family practicing cooperation toward others? How about your church, city, or nation?
What do you think should be done to promote cooperation in your family, friends, church, city, nation?
Does it make much difference if they are cooperative or not?