A Wonderful Poster on Failure July13, 2014 I have always believed that teachers (and people in general) MUST have an open midset; one that tolerates and celebrates mistakes and errors; one that looks at failure as an opportunity for a better beginning. It is through falling down that we stand up robust and it is through misfortunes that we gather our strength to live the life we want and pursue our dreams. If we want to raise up socially and emotionally strong students who can face up and overcome the hardships of life, an important key in this is to teach (and model) them about failure. We need to show them that failure is a healthy sign and a good omen for a healthy life experience. They need to view failure as an attempt for deep reflection and meditation about what work or did not work. At 30 years old, Steve Jobs was left devastated and depressed after being removed from the company he started.
5 Activities To Help Your Kids Learn Perseverance - Moments A Day Perseverance is a quality that every child can benefit from practicing. After all, there are going to be challenges in life, and knowing how to persevere even amidst frustration or disappointment will be a great life skill. Active games and sports are a fantastic way to help strengthen one’s ability to persevere. In each of the five activities below there are variations for young children to progress through. As you play you can discuss the word “perseverance” and talk about how this quality can help in many arenas of life. Some key phrases you might like to use are: Persevering means we don’t give up even when it’s hard.To persevere means we do not let obstacles get in the way of our goal.When we persevere we enjoy the journey and do not get discouraged if it is going in a way we did not expect. Here are the activities to help children learn perseverance: Please note that a baseball is the perfect sized ball to use with these activities! (1) Throw a small ball to yourself. (4) Make a relay.
I'm Charlotte Church. And This Is How Women Are Routinely Demoralized by the Music Industry... - Digital Music NewsDigital Music News The following speech was delivered at BBC 6 Music’s annual John Peel Lecture by Charlotte Church, who entered the music industry as a young teenager. Roughly 15 years later, her perspectives on the business have changed dramatically. “Thank you for coming to my lecture this evening. I’d like you to imagine a world in which male musicians are routinely expected to act as submissive sex objects. Picture Beyonce’s husband Jay-Z stripped down to a T-back bikini thong, sex kittin’ his way through a boulevard of suited-and-booted women for their pleasure. Or Britney Spears’ ex, Justin Timberlake, in buttocks-clenching hot pants writhing on top of a pink Chevy, explaining to an audience how he’d like to be their ‘Teenage Dream’. Before we all get a little too hot beneath the gusset, of course these scenarios are not likely to become reality, unless for comedy’s sake. It is a male-dominated industry, with a juvenile perspective on gender and sexuality. [audience laughter] He continued saying,
The Lost Art of Eye Contact We’ve stopped seeing each other. You and me. All of us. Our eyes may indeed be windows to our soul, but with our necks craned downward and our eyes focused on tiny handheld screens, who can tell? We hardly make an effort to look at the person we’re talking to anymore. Younger people, in general, find it challenging to maintain eye contact with adults. When nearly every personal and business interaction uses a screen as an intermediary, it’s difficult to develop and maintain meaningful relationships with employees, customers and partners. Speak with Your Eyes We communicate so much with a simple look. Listen to Their Eyes Without looking directly into someone’s eyes, you’ll miss millions of visual clues as to what’s going on inside their head. Look for the “Tell” In poker, it’s called the “tell”: the habitual signal your opponent makes that betrays whether he or she is holding a full house or a hand full of nothing. Be Shifty-Eyed But Don’t Be Creepy
Spontaneity School: 10 Improv Games to Develop Courage, Compassion and Creativity - Anima Learning Want to learn the kind of presence and activities described here? Join us for a residential retreat!Improv Wisdom retreats 2016: June 8-13, Mere Point, ME; Sept 2-5, Petaluma, CAOr subscribe to the new Monster Baby podcast by clicking here! Here we go again! It’s that time of year. Going into this year, I see my teacher’s role even more as one of facilitator and coach. 1. Make sure to get the body involved and not just the voice. “I am a tree.”Image courtesy of FreeDigitalPhotos.net 2. If needed, encourage students to connect their addition to who or what has already been established.Each subsequent set of “beings” need not relate to the one that came before it.Once your group gets familiar with the game, it can make for a sweet conclusion to find a way for the last person to say “I am a tree.” 3. Make sure the questioner asks with honest and kind curiosity rather than with dismissal or sarcasm. It’s a cutlery game! 4. 5. Suggest that students mix up how they’re moving around. “I failed!”
Music Units - Into Music 1 - Classroom Music in Years 1-3 | Arts Online About this resource This Ministry of Education resource is an adaptation of the original book and CD Into Music 1, Classroom Music in Years 1 - 3, Learning Media (2001). In this online resource, the book has been updated and digitised to provide links to online resources and to reflect the New Zealand Curriculum (2007). The resource is written for all teachers of children in years 1 to 3 and may also be useful to adapt for other age groups. This first section looks at the skills and concepts involved in listening, moving, singing, playing, creating and representing music through a range of effective pedagogical practices for teaching and learning in music. The downloadable units in this resource are each contextualised around a central key music learning aspect and a piece of music. Listening and Responding - Turn on Your Ears: Singing - Vocal Vibrations: Playing - Shake, Rattle and Roll: Creating and Representing - Sound Innovations: Introduction Printing this resource
Giving Good Praise to Girls: What Messages Stick How to praise kids: It’s a hot topic for many parents and educators. A lot of the conversation around it has stemmed from studies by Carol Dweck, professor of psychology at Stanford who has been researching this specific topic for many years. “My research shows that praise for intelligence or ability backfires,” said Dweck, who co-authored a seminal research paper on the effects of praise on motivation and performance. But what some might not know is that this paradox is strongest for girls. Dweck’s research, which focuses on what makes people seek challenging tasks, persist through difficulty and do well over time, has shown that many girls believe their abilities are fixed, that individuals are born with gifts and can’t change. “Of all the subjects on earth, people think math is the most fixed,” Dweck said. [RELATED READING: Girls and Math: Busting the Stereotype] Dweck has found that socialization and beliefs about learning ability are developed at early ages. Katrina Schwartz
12 Ways to Teach Kids About Compassion + GIVEAWAY | B-Inspired Mama Disclosure: I am part of the PTPA Brand Ambassador Program with Harvest Time and I received compensation as a part of my affiliation with this group. The opinions on this blog are my own. Please see my disclosure policy. Honestly… it’s only been very recently that I’ve been concerned with teaching my kids principles of life. 12 Ways to Teach Kids Compassion Play an Emotions Game – Help your children understand emotions with a DIY Emotions Matching Game.Role Playing – Give kids scenarios that they can act out to see how they might use compassion in their everyday lives. More About The Principles of Our World: Compassion Book: Sure I talk to my kids about helping others, but I was actually surprised to learn that my kids had no idea what the word compassion meant. I thought breakfast would be a great time to read our Principles of Our World books. The book makes the principles of compassion so much easier to explain and for them to understand. Win a Set of Principles of Our World Books!
NZ Folksong * Maori Songs Kia ora koutou Please forgive me for any errors here. If you can send me any corrections or additions to be added here, I would be most grateful. My hobby has been learning about songs of the rural white New Zealand way of life. I started this NZ Folk Song website to make information about these Pakeha songs available to others. But people kept e-mailing me to ask for information about Māori songs. To find out about different versions of old Maori songs, I search the NZ National Library's online database. And I'm finding a wealth of information about waiata in all twenty years of copies of Te Ao Hou that are online. The most useful printed resource I have for words and translations is Waiata Maori by the late Toby Rikihana. I also have these Maori songbooks too. John Archer Ngati Tumatauenga Waiouru
How Important is Grit in Student Achievement? Culture Teaching Strategies When it comes to high achievement, grit may be as essential as intelligence. By Emily Hanford, American RadioWorks Before she was a psychology professor, Angela Duckworth taught math in middle school and high school. Now Duckworth is an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and her research focuses on a personality trait she calls “grit.” Duckworth’s research suggests that when it comes to high achievement, grit may be as essential as intelligence. “Which experiences do we give kids to get them in the direction of more grit and not less?” Intelligence “is probably the best-measured trait that there is in all of human psychology,” says Duckworth. But intelligence leaves a lot unexplained. Duckworth’s work is part of a growing area of psychology research focused on what are loosely called “noncognitive skills.” Duckworth has developed a test called the “Grit Scale.” The charter schools have succeeded in providing strong academic preparation.
Lessons and activities for teaching respect | Respect lesson plans | Teaching Respect Activities | Lesson Plans | Lesson Plan | Activities If your students lack it or could stand to learn more about it, we offer five lessons to get them talking and thinking about respect. Included: Have a Respect Popcorn Party! Can respect be taught? Of course it can! Parents do it all the time. Before introducing this week's new lessons, here are a few ideas to start your students thinking and talking about respect: Have students work as a class or in small groups to brainstorm responses to the question, What does "respect" mean to me? You will find additional activities at the bottom of this page, but first we want to leap right into our: Click each of the five lesson headlines below for a complete teaching resource. Everybody is unique: A lesson in respect for others Teach respect for others' unique qualities. Simon says "Who are you?" RESPECT popcorn party Reinforce respect by celebrating examples of it in your classroom. Positively respectful Create a positive environment by teaching students to show respect and share compliments.