Teach your children to express or target their anger toward the ground or in the air by throwing clouds in the air (cotton Balls in a Baggie) Train children in how to avoid becoming a target and teach them how to target their anger. You can make a target out of a carpet fragment. A… Read more »
Norman Bridwell Do you know why everybody loves Clifford, the big red dog? He has good manners! Emily Elizabeth taught Clifford all of his manners and this is what is discussed in this story by Norman Bridwell. Clifford knows how to say please and thank you. He knows that it is polite to write a… Read more »
First Grade African saying- “If the fingers of the hand quarrel you cannot pick up the spoon.” I use this with my students to demonstrate the importance of cooperation. I invite them to draw faces on each of the fingers and tell them that the fingers were not getting along. Each one wanted to do… Read more »
When you’re counseling a student about an attitude or behavior, it s often effective to “begin at the end”. To do so, determine the objective of the meeting and what you hope to gain by talking with the student. In the process, pinpoint what you want the specific outcome of the meeting to be. Then,… Read more »
Sunday, February 19, 2006 CALLIE CLARK MILLER ~ Southeast Missourian Educators and even law enforcement agencies have established programs to help prevent bullying. The poster in the glass display case at Alma Schrader Elementary explains it best. Beneath the colored pencil drawing of an angry-looking girl wearing big black boots kicking a crying classmate, a… Read more »
“I am only one, but still I am one I cannot do everything but still I can do something I will not refuse to do the something I can do.” – Helen Keller
Increase your ability to diagnose and prescribe options for your students by adjusting the rate at which you process information from listening and speaking. The average person speaks at a rate of about 120 words a minute, but most people can listen four times faster. The reality is listeners fill the gap with other thoughts… Read more »
While visiting in Vancouver, British Columbia, my wife and I took a day trip, via the BC Ferries to Victoria, the government seat of British Columbia. On our way down Highway 17 toward the seaside capitol, we took a brief side tour to visit beautiful Buchart Gardens. These extraordinarily, exquisite gardens, which are tucked away… Read more »
Character building making schools safer, Central Jersey teachers say By CHAD HEMENWAY – Staff Writer School districts throughout the state have adopted various character-education programs to teach students respect, responsibility and integrity in an effort to make schools better — and safer — learning environments. Just a dream? Not according to administrators and teachers in… Read more »
Environment Plays a Major Role in Shaping Children’s Social Behavior Bad genes may make a brute, but it takes a bad environment to make a bully. A new study shows that it’s bad influences more so than genes that are behind making children bullies. Researchers say the results show that the type of social aggression… Read more »
