ROle Model David Robinson will be retiring from the NBA San Antonio Spurs this year. He and his wife have given over 9 million dollars to found a school for urban children. “Life is not all about making as much money as you can and being as famous as you can; it’s about service,” he… Read more »
I talk and talk and talk, and I haven’t taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week. – Mario Cuomo
Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood. – Fred Rogers
Implementation Procedure 1- Exclusive use of Voice tends to be neutralized especially when the voice is overused to illicit responses from children. 2-Two claps and a non-verbal hand signal cause kids to look for clues to behave. I recommend that you use the verbal command along with the non-verbal clue in the early stages of… Read more »
Newsleter 2003-2004 –
1. Invite each child in your class to complete an art project by making paper kites on a 9×12 piece of construction paper. 2. Using a 4×6 white card have each child write a goal statement “I will……” 3. Examples of goal statements can include: I will follow the teacher’s directions the 1st time given…. Read more »
HONESTY My son Zachary, 4, came screaming out of the bathroom to tell me he’d dropped his toothbrush in the toilet. So I fished it out and threw it in the garbage. Zachary stood there thinking for a moment, then ran to my bathroom and came out with my toothbrush. He held it up and… Read more »
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon–instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. – Dale Carnegie
The Magic of the Monkey I always knew there was something more magical about using animals to teach kids how to behave, than my own strategies, solutions, and tools. If you were a kid, whom would you listen to, an adult trying to rationalize the importance of being responsible, or a stuffed monkey you saw… Read more »
Losing your temper is no way to get rid of it. – Author Unknown
