Random Acts of Kindness: Teaching Kindness in Schools. Random Acts of Kindness Foundation Inspiring people to practice kindness and pass it on to others Bring kindness to your school! Error 404 Page Not Found The page you requested has either moved or is no longer on our site. Please use the site map below or the search tool to find what you're looking for.
The Random Acts of Kindness Foundation is an internationally recognized non-profit organization founded upon the powerful belief in kindness and dedicated to providing resources and tools that encourage acts of kindness. Contact Us View this site in another language: What does kindness mean to you? Read More Stories of Kindness Share Your Own Story Visit our Educator Resources section to download exciting lesson plans based on real-life actions by community leaders. View All Educator Resources Submit A Lesson Plan ©2014 All Rights Reserved. Texte d'origine Proposer une meilleure traduction. Four Ways to Encourage Kindness in Students. When I was a teacher, at the start of each school year I couldn’t wait to try out all the classroom management tips I’d picked up over the summer, convinced that now I had in my pocket the latest techniques that would make my classroom a warm and safe place to learn.
I knew that one of the keys to a caring classroom was encouraging students to demonstrate kind, helpful—or “prosocial”—behavior toward each other. Researchers have found that students who show this kind of behavior: 1) achieve greater academic success, 2) have more friends, and 3) develop better relationships with teachers. Sometimes my new techniques succeeded; lots of times they didn’t.
But as I’ve learned more about the science of prosocial behavior, I’ve been pleasantly surprised that it might be a lot easier to encourage kindness among students than I thought. The four types of photos used by researchers who found that images with dolls facing each other in the background--like in image (a)--primed kids to help others.
Kindness Resources. When you are searching for ways to bring kindness to the world around you, this Resources page is a great place to begin. Check back frequently for book recommendations, links to kindness resources, calendars of important kindness dates, and ideas and graphics you can use for your own kind actions. Visual Resources Our videos, calendars, posters, and cards make it easy to pass kindness on and celebrate kindness daily. Inspire yourself, or share kindness with others! Videos A picture is worth a thousand words, our kindness videos put millions of pictures into inspiring action! Calendars Never miss an opportunity. Posters Spread the word about doing kindness! Cards Make someone’s day with our kindness cards.
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Module 1 : practice of kindness | themes to inspire kindness action & reflection. PIF with Education. ‘Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, do-ers, and teachers.’ – Richard Bach Children are amazing teachers and their natural joy, spontaneity and love of play are inspirational. Paying it Forward with Education is giving children the tools so that they can really understand the best ways of learning, then asking them to pay it forward and teach. Imagine if every child in the world did this… Children learn a particular subject, then in small groups they discuss how they can improve the resources for the next group of children who will be studying it.
If children are encouraged to teach what they learn, it will help them to realise how much they know and it will deepen their knowledge. Pay it Forward with Education is about supporting children to recognise their natural talent, to empower them with learning tools and encouraging them to Pay it Forward! Pay it Forward with private tuition. Sometimes we pay it forward without even realising… It is only afterwards, in reflection, that it becomes clear. Empowering a teenager Private tuition sessions, on and off for about 2 years, covering English, Science, History and Geography. A student approached me after class one day and asked if I did tutoring sessions, I replied ‘I can do’. I gave her my details and her mum phoned me that evening. The sessions were arranged and began running on a regular basis.
We explored, discussed, and pondered over a variety of topics, sometimes I became lost in the flow of learning and forgot the time! During English we explored values and goal setting. This doesn’t sound like much, but it makes a big difference to a student, if they can understand what they need to be focusing on in their school work, and they can understand how it links to their goals. As I learnt more and more about teaching, I taught it to her – memory techniques, engaging the brain, holistic learning.