Citizenship

How can we teach our students to become good citizens?  In the class where I am doing my observations the teacher had a problem with some of the students acting up or not following the rules on the playground.  When it was time to come back inside she had them sit on the reading rug so they could talk about THEIR concerns with what happened on the playground.  Different students discussed what happened.  So the teacher did not fuss or yell at them, she let them express what went wrong and how those problems could be fixed.  Then she turned the situation into a Social Studies lesson about how to be a good citizen.  The students had prior knowledge about the subject from some of their reading stories. At the end of the day the students made a concept map listing items of good citizenship.  Then they colored a paper quilt piece, in the middle they listed one of the qualities from the concept map.  They cut the pieces out and they were all glued onto a large piece of paper.  The students made their own class quilt of good citizenship.