Thursday, September 25, 2014
This book was very influential on me, as regards behavior, even though it is for parents, not teachers. Reading this changed my perspective on many kids I know, and helped me change how I dealt with them, and how I saw them. Calls for occasional rereading, so that the principles become set. This book doesn't help with every single child, this book is for difficult, children; emotionally abnormal children. But I was surprised to find that a boy I know who I had thought of as ADHD shows many characteristics of the Attachment disorder that this book discusses. I have yet to find a book as straightforward, frank and easy-to-comprehend for children with normal psychology.
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"When Love is Not Enough: A Guide to Parenting Children with RAD-Reactive
Attachment Disorder brings hope and healing tools to parents and
professionals working to help challenging children. Effective
interventions, a full step by step plan, clearer insight and
understanding make a powerful difference in helping children heal. If
you want to make a difference in the life of a hurting child, this book
will do it! This plan was honed on some of the most difficult children
in the US and has been used successfully to help thousands of children
around the world. Children can learn to be respectful, responsible and
fun to be with. This book tells the reader how to do it and then zaps
them with a boost of encouragement to get started!" (Product description from Amazon)
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
Group assignments for analysing texts that I had a teacher do for me once:
Word Illustrator: finds words in the text that are descriptive, or call an image to mind.
Text Summarizer: puts together the sum of the message.
Image Designer: draws the scene or action of the text based on its description.
Predictor: makes predictions as the text progresses and at the end of it.
These types of assignments give all students in the group a responsibility, a purpose for the assignment, and helps them feel that the skill they are developing is a talent, not a chore. I would love to try this with third or fourth graders.
Word Illustrator: finds words in the text that are descriptive, or call an image to mind.
Text Summarizer: puts together the sum of the message.
Image Designer: draws the scene or action of the text based on its description.
Predictor: makes predictions as the text progresses and at the end of it.
These types of assignments give all students in the group a responsibility, a purpose for the assignment, and helps them feel that the skill they are developing is a talent, not a chore. I would love to try this with third or fourth graders.
Well, it's rather disappointing that both of those links failed, the only other online location for it that I'm aware of is Netflix, http://dvd.netflix.com/Movie/A-Touch-of-Greatness/70025414?trkid=222336
but the film does have a website: http://www.atouchofgreatness.com/
Hopefully this will be helpful to anyone interested in it.
but the film does have a website: http://www.atouchofgreatness.com/
Hopefully this will be helpful to anyone interested in it.
Wednesday, September 10, 2014
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This film changed how I say teaching, and helped me confront my fears about having a 'disorderly' classroom.
Albert Callum had a natural flair for teaching, loving, and appreciating students; I hope I can be half the teacher he was.
"In an era when Dick, Jane, and discipline ruled America's schools, Albert Cullum allowed Shakespeare, Sophocles, and Shaw to reign in his fifth grade public school classroom. Through the use of poetry, drama and imaginative play, Cullum championed an unorthodox educational philosophy that spoke directly to his students' needs. Many of Cullum's projects were recorded on film by then novice filmmaker Robert Downey, Sr. Weaving stunning black and white footage and rare archival television broadcasts together with interviews of Cullum and his former students, this is a portrait of a maverick teacher who transformed a generation of young people by enabling them to discover their own inner greatness."
From the IMBD description of the film.
This film changed how I say teaching, and helped me confront my fears about having a 'disorderly' classroom.
Albert Callum had a natural flair for teaching, loving, and appreciating students; I hope I can be half the teacher he was.
"In an era when Dick, Jane, and discipline ruled America's schools, Albert Cullum allowed Shakespeare, Sophocles, and Shaw to reign in his fifth grade public school classroom. Through the use of poetry, drama and imaginative play, Cullum championed an unorthodox educational philosophy that spoke directly to his students' needs. Many of Cullum's projects were recorded on film by then novice filmmaker Robert Downey, Sr. Weaving stunning black and white footage and rare archival television broadcasts together with interviews of Cullum and his former students, this is a portrait of a maverick teacher who transformed a generation of young people by enabling them to discover their own inner greatness."
From the IMBD description of the film.
Thursday, September 4, 2014
I guess I would call this blog 'Teaching for Cookies!" because Teaching involves a lot of things that I worry about doing correctly, from classroom management to lesson planning, to not crushing creative minds, to preventing bullying and not becoming a bully myself. So, it's partly an attempt to lighten the mood and partly an attempt to remind myself of the things I look forward to in teaching. Seeing children get excited about learning and making it their own, finding someone else who is also excited about learning, and growing a friendship from it. Doing things besides the five-question section review every week, and feeling the subject come alive and be something that a student will remember the rest of their lives. These are the 'cookies' of teaching: the little bit of sweetness in your day.
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