Helping Students Manage Stress, Set Goals, and Feel Connected In early October, I reviewed Paul Tough's new book, How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character. I saw implications for policy, funding, and teacher preparation, as well as lots of actions that administrators and teachers could take based on Tough's research. Here are some ideas. Less Stress One aspect of Paul Tough's book that I appreciated was all the brain science made reader friendly. So what can we do, in the classroom, to mitigate the stress that our students arrive with? This video shows a school-wide meditation program in urban San Francisco that drastically reduced the school's truancy and suspension rates. What's Your Mission? Here's some interesting information from Tough's book: people tend to use three strategies when setting goals. I did a lot of goal setting with my students. Cultivating Group Identity Many of us know that group identity can have powerful affect on our performance. Exploring Systemic Change I like what Tough says about stress.
A dozen important brain based concepts - The Second Principle Creating a brain based classroom – A dozen important concepts and teaching strategies every teacher (and parent) should know about how the brain learns best ©Leslie Owen Wilson, Ed.D. 2014 Contact Leslie Download a PDF version of A dozen important brain based concepts L. This page is dedicated to a dozen specific concepts from the most recent literature on brain based learning (educational neuroscience). Are in direct contradiction to traditional or historic teaching practices;Are currently missing from many schools or classrooms;Are important accommodations to students’ cognitive processing;Could radically change teachers’ presentation methods and the ways in which instruction is designed or delivered;Have the potential to help children be better students, as well as help them remember and retain information. After each idea I have included a segment entitled – What needs to change? Please, if you find this information useful, pass it on to other educators, and to parents. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
#StuVoice Finland Shares the ‘Characteristics of an Effective Teacher’ Fair, Dedicated, and Inspiring. Nice to meet you! I am Maria Puolakkainen, an outgoing high school student from Helsinki, Finland. I am a dedicated student and my principle academic interests center around politics, economics, and philosophy. I am also passionate about languages; with English and Finnish as my first languages, I am fluent in French and am a beginner in Swedish and Italian. I am a seventeen year-old IB high school student in my penultimate year from Helsinki, Finland. I feel honoured to have been invited by the PennFinn13 team to share my ideas and insight on education in Finland and the United States. As a dedicated high school student, I demand a great deal from my teachers. The stereotype of a Finnish teacher is built up with a master’s degree in teaching or one’s field, a calm and collected mindset, a relaxed teaching style, and above all, elevated expertise in one’s field. As I previously mentioned, the importance of respect and equality is crucial. Like this:
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Dr. Anthony Muhammad • New Frontier 21 Anthony Muhammad is one of the most sought after educational consultants in North America. As a practitioner of nearly twenty years, Dr. Muhammad has served as a middle school teacher, assistant principal, middle school principal, and high school principal. Dr. Dr. If you are ready for a powerful transformation in student performance call (248) 974-4828 to discuss how we can tailor our services to meet your school’s needs. The archive for all of Dr. 2013 Background Information — Legislative Skip to content. | Skip to navigation Personal tools Log in North Carolina State Board of Education Advanced Search… Navigation You are here: Home › Background Information 2013 Background Information Last modified Oct 24, 2013 05:54 PM Average Daily Membership (ADM) Brief Career and Technical Education (CTE) Brief K-3 Reading Brief Licensure Fees Brief Teacher Evaluation Brief Document Actions
Resilience: The Other 21st Century Skills Due to the interest of my post The Other 21st Skills, I decided to individually discuss each of the skills or dispositions I proposed that are in addition to the seven survival skills as identified by Tony Wagner. This post focuses on resiliency. The first post focused on Grit: The Other 21st Century Skills. Some would categorize Grit and Resiliency as the same skill, but it is my belief they are involve two different, but interconnected, skill sets. While grit focuses on persistence, resilience is about bouncing back in the face of challenges and/or failure. Some of characteristics or dispositions of Resilience include: Bouncing BackManaging EmotionsAwareness of Strengths and AssetsPassion-Driven FocusResourcefulnessSense of Personal AgencyAbility to Reach Out to OthersProblem-Solving Skills Resilience is the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats or significant sources of stress. Resilience research clearly reveals the following key points: Like this:
Dr. Anthony Muhammad - Podcast: Help Students At The First Sign Of Trouble 68: Dr. Anthony Muhammad | Help Students At The First Sign Of Trouble | Galvanize Your Resources Through Motivation, Professional Development, and Modeling To Produce Productive, Healthy, Educated Students | Struggling Students Don’t Need Pity, They Need Help Download Podcast Here Dr. Anthony Muhammad is one of the most sought after educational consultants in North America. Dr. Dr. About EducatorsLead: Educators Lead is a podcast created to help launch educators into the next level of leadership. Educate. www.educatorslead.com
Mind Mapping, Timelines, and Brainstorming | Richard Byrne Presents 1. Post your know, want, and learn comments on this Padlet wall. Double click to write on the wall. 2. Use RealTime Board to work with one or two others to collaboratively create a concept map for a topic you teach. 3. 4. 5. 6. Popplet is a service that combines the best of online sticky note services like Wallwisher with collaborative mind mapping functions. Spider Scribe is an online mind map creation service. Realtime Board provides a blank grid on which you can type, draw, and post pictures. ThingLink is a free tool that allows you to upload any image place interactive pinmarks on it. Bubbl.us is a free mind mapping/ graphic organization tool that allows users to collaboratively create and edit mind maps. Text 2 Mind Map offers a great way to turn your typed outlines into mind maps. Exploratree is a free graphic organizer creation tool. Padlet is an online corkboard that you can use to create collaborative KWL charts. To use Padlet for collaborative KWL charts.
How to Help Kids Overcome Fear of Failure A couple of weeks ago, a New York Times op-ed asked the question, “Are kids too coddled?” In other words, shouldn’t we let them fail once in awhile so they develop some backbone? Or don’t they just need more grit? The answer is not that simple because human beings are not that simple. According to UC Berkeley professor Martin Covington, the fear of failure is directly linked to your self-worth, or the belief that you are valuable as a person. Fortunately, the research also provides tips for educators to help students deal with feelings of failure—and help them to fulfill their true potential. The Games We Play to Avoid Failure Covington’s years of research found that one way people protect their self-worth is by believing they are competent and making others believe it as well. Hence, the ability to achieve—and the quality of performance that reveals that ability—is critical to maintaining self-worth. 1. 2. 3. 4. Overcoming the Fear of Failure 1. 2. 3.
School Culture Definition The term school culture generally refers to the beliefs, perceptions, relationships, attitudes, and written and unwritten rules that shape and influence every aspect of how a school functions, but the term also encompasses more concrete issues such as the physical and emotional safety of students, the orderliness of classrooms and public spaces, or the degree to which a school embraces and celebrates racial, ethnic, linguistic, or cultural diversity. Like the larger social culture, a school culture results from both conscious and unconscious perspectives, values, interactions, and practices, and it is heavily shaped by a school’s particular institutional history. Students, parents, teachers, administrators, and other staff members all contribute to their school’s culture, as do other influences such as the community in which the school is located, the policies that govern how it operates, or the principles upon which the school was founded. Reform Debate
5 Simple Ways To Use Google Docs In The Classroom 5 Simple Ways To Use Google Docs In The Classroom by Susan Oxnevad first appeared on gettingsmart.com Google Docs is a user friendly suite of online collaborative tools that come with tremendous potential for use in the classroom. Last year all of the students in our school received Google Docs accounts and I was kept quite busy getting students and teachers up and running with the new tools, then discovering innovative ways to use them as effective tools for learning. Here are some of the favorites. 5 Simple Ways To Use Google Docs In The Classroom 1. Sharing and commenting provide students with opportunities to receive immediate feedback on their writing from teachers and peers in the 24/7 classroom. 2. One of the challenges of using Google Docs with a class full of students is in managing all those Google Docs. 3. 4. Provide students with immediate feedback and increase motivation by creating a simple self-grading quiz with a Google Form. 5.
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