Are you raising nice kids? A Harvard psychologist gives 5 ways to raise them to be kind Richard Weissbourd, a Harvard psychologist with the graduate school of education, and the Making Caring Common Project have come up with recommendations about how to raise children to become caring, respectful and responsible adults. (The Washington Post) Richard Weissbourd, a Harvard psychologist with the graduate school of education, and the Making Caring Common Project have come up with recommendations about how to raise children to become caring, respectful and responsible adults. Richard Weissbourd, a Harvard psychologist with the graduate school of education, and the Making Caring Common Project have come up with recommendations about how to raise children to become caring, respectful and responsible adults. (The Washington Post) Earlier this year, I wrote about teaching empathy, and whether you are a parent who does so. I know, you’d think they are or that parents are teaching that themselves, right? “Children are not born simply good or bad and we should never give up on them.
Five Keys to Successful Social and Emotional Learning Pamela Randall: Social-emotional skills are the essential skills for success in school, work and life. Natalie Walchuk: Social-emotional learning centers their mind and body. It reduces their emotional tension, so they can be open to new content and material. Pamela: If we expect students to be college and career ready, it's important for us to focus on these skills and competencies: Self-Awareness; Self-Management; Social Awareness; Relationship Skills; and Responsible Decision-Making. Natalie: We find that Self-Awareness is one of the hardest things for young people. Pamela: Self-Management is the ability to self-motivate, to have self-control, to regulate one's emotions. Natalie: In a classroom, that may be a breathing exercise, or that might be counting to five, or taking a break. Rose Ludwig: So with students who don't really know how to deal with their anger, or don't really know how to resolve conflict, we're giving them a tool that helps them deal with it in a less stressful way.
How Canada Is Closing the Achievement Gap (Education Everywhere Series) Mary Jean: Ontario is an incredibly diverse province. And so if our goal is going to be to improve student achievement, so our children will grow into successful and happy adults, we need to deal with that diversity. And so it's not seen as a barrier, it's seen as an opportunity and a challenge. Avis: From the outset, we agreed that we had to have special interventions in place in order to bring the bottom up. Pat: So are you going to join our sports teams? Student: Yeah, I will. Pat: And what's your favorite sport? Student: Track and field. Pat: Oh, track and field. Susan: A lot of the students that do come new to the country have a variety of needs and that may be academic, it may be social, it may be language-based. it may be family-based, it could be just survival skills. Pat: Okay, how far did you get? Student: Almost. Pat: Okay, what's happened since I read with you? Pat: Students that are new to Canada, there's a large transition. Pat: We have weekly meetings.
15 Sites That Show You The World in Real Time What if you could see the whole world as it is right this moment? It would certainly put things in perspective. Once you see the world through the lenses of these web sites you’ll realize just how vibrant and alive it is every single nanosecond. The statistics of it are amazing, and seeing them actually happen is even more amazing. The following 15 web sites allow you to experience the entire world as it happens, through multiple perspectives. What happens on the internet in just one measly second? It counts how many reddit votes are cast, instagram photos uploaded, tumblr posts posted, skype calls made, tweets tweeted, dropbox files uploaded, google searches made, youtube videos viewed, and Facebook likes. Lastly you can click to load the most humongous visualization of all.. emails sent this second.
Social and Emotional Learning Research Review Editor's Note: This article was originally written by Vanessa Vega, with subsequent updates made by the Edutopia staff. Numerous research reports show that social and emotional learning (SEL) can have a positive impact on students' academic performance. Edutopia's SEL research review explores those reports and helps make sense of the results. In this series of four articles, learn how researchers define social and emotional learning, review some of the possible learning outcomes, get our recommendations of evidence-based programs, find tips for avoiding pitfalls when implementing SEL programs, and dig in to a comprehensive annotated bibliography with links to all the studies and reports cited in these pages. What is Social and Emotional Learning? How do we define social and emotional learning (SEL)? Learning Outcomes SEL Skills and Academic Success Relationships and emotional processes affect how and what we learn.
Smart Hearts: Social and Emotional Learning Overview Male Newscaster: The video was posted on MySpace by [inaudible]. This assault occurred in North Babylon, New York. The victim apparently just twelve years old. Her attackers are fourteen year old ninth graders… Male caller: A shooting with a gun at the [inaudible] Academy. Female 911 Operator: Okay, where's the student at? Female Newscaster: He was picked on, bullied and that may have been part of what pushed him to the school shooting here. Narrator: While schools across the country grapple with the behavior problems of their troubled students, thousands of individuals are stepping up to help meet those students' social and emotional needs. Michael: And no matter what we teach your brains, love is more important than knowledge. Narrator: One of them is Michael Pritchard, a comedian and former probation officer who tours the country listening to the hearts of young people. Michael: What was it doing to your heart? Boy: It just made me feel really bad. Teacher: So that was Maria's day. Yeah.
Looking At Tears Under A Microscope Reveals A Shocking Fact. Share on Facebook One day Rose-Lynn Fisher wondered if her tears of grief would look different compared to her tears of joy, so she began to explore them up close under a microscope. She studied 100 different tears and found that basal tears (the ones that our body produces to lubricate our eyes) are drastically different from the tears that happen when we are chopping onions. Tears from laughing until crying Rose-Lynn Fisher Tears of change Tears of grief Tears from onions Joseph Stromberg of the Smithsonian’s Collage of Arts and Sciences explained that there are three major types of tears: basal, reflex, and psychic (triggered by emotions). Basal tears Tears of timeless reunion Tears of ending and beginning Tears of momentum, redirected Tears of release Tears of possibility and hope Tears of elation at a liminal moment Tears of remembrance Credit: Rose-Lynn Fisher Like snow flakes and fingerprints, no tears are alike.
Empathie à l'école. Transformer l'idéal en réalité Créativité, attitudes entrepreneuriales, sensibilité aux enjeux sociaux, résolution de problèmes. L’importance de ces compétences pour demain est régulièrement rappelée, en particulier dans les travaux de l’OCDE, qui a rédigé récemment un rapport sur l’impact des compétences socio-affectives en termes de progrès social. Sans surprise, les compétences socio-affectives comme l’estime de soi ou l’extraversion se répercutent sur la réussite scolaire, l’accès à l’enseignement supérieur (et une rémunération plus élevée), et jouent aussi un rôle de réduction de risques sociaux (addictions diverses comme le tabagisme, l’alcoolisme etc.), comme le montre une étude longitudinale menée en Nouvelle Zélande, « Competent children, competent learners » sur un groupe d’apprenants suivis pendant 25 ans. Au-delà de l'affirmation de valeur «Eduquer pour résoudre les problèmes mondiaux.», des initiatives pratiques montrent que l'idéal peut devenir réalité. L’empathie à l’école La citoyenneté mondiale 1.
Emotional Intelligence Is the Missing Piece Social and emotional learning can help students successfully resolve conflict, communicate clearly, solve problems, and much more. Emotional Intelligence: An Overview Credit: Edutopia Whether it's in the boardroom or the classroom, individuals need the skills to communicate, work in teams, and let go of the personal and family issues that get in the way of working and learning. Emotionally intelligent individuals stand out. Psychologist and author Daniel Goleman popularized the term "emotional intelligence" in his landmark 1995 best-selling book of the same name. Students in Sarah Button’s fifth-grade class at P.S. 15 in Brooklyn learn how to defuse potentially volatile incidents. Self-Awareness and Empathy Jonathan Cohen, president of the Center for Social and Emotional Education in New York, argues that attributes like self-awareness and empathy play a huge role in every aspect of life. Miraculous Transformations Skills More Than Values