Topics: Teaching Wellness & Inspiration, New Teacher, educator wellness, Teacher Appreciation, Happiness
Topics: Teaching Wellness & Inspiration, Teaching with Technology, Technology, Courses, Student Engagement, Happiness
Topics: Teaching Wellness & Inspiration, New Teacher, anxiety, Mental Health Awareness, Happiness, Self-Care
Topics: Teaching Wellness & Inspiration, Teaching Excellence, educator wellness, Educator Coaching, Teacher Burnout, Distance Learning
In honor of National Honesty Day, (yes, that is a thing that takes place on April 30th) we are going to talk about integrity! Why you ask? Well, these concepts are closely related. Many people think integrity is synonymous with honesty, but author, Thomas R. Hoerr, tells us that integrity takes honesty one step further to action. Integrity pushes us to be better, do better, and it can also elevate the behavior of those around us. That being the case, integrity is not innate, so we must teach our students to act with integrity. While National Honesty Day might be the perfect day to do so, it is important that we teach, model, discuss, and behave with integrity every day.
But let’s be honest…you might not have a lesson in your back pocket on integrity, so I’ll share four of my favorite ideas for embedding integrity into your classroom for just a day or all year long.
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When the first Earth Day was celebrated in 1970:
- 10% of the U.S. population took to the streets to mobilize and protest “environmental ignorance.”
- the environmental movement was launched, resulting in the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act, and the Endangered Species Act
Now, at the age of 50, the Earth Day Planning Committee is preparing for campaigns that “will activate over a billion people” worldwide.
There’s never been a more dire reason to participate. Evidence of climate changes are evident around the world. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists recently stated that their Doomsday Clock, which has assessed threats to humanity and the planet since 1947, is closer to the end (their version of apocalypse) than ever. Species continue to go extinct rapidly, and changes in weather (which affects everything else) are alarming.
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Students and Teachers Say the Funniest Things!
Art Linkletter devised the clever moniker, “Kids Say the Darndest Things,” and made a lot of money capturing parent stories of precocious children saying amusing things. If he had asked teachers about things they heard in the classroom, he'd have a wealth of new material to add. We asked teachers to weigh in with some of the interesting things they have heard, interactions in which they have participated, and general missteps from the mouths of teachers.
We share them here to illustrate the messy and humorous days of teachers, and to highlight the very real vulnerability that we ask of ourselves and our students to show in the process of learning. Enjoy!
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Great Teaching Starts with Relationships
Classroom management. Starts with strong relationships.
Student achievement. Starts with strong relationships.
Social-emotional growth. Starts with strong relationships.
Culturally Responsive Teaching. Starts with strong relationships.
Notice a pattern? When it comes to quality teaching and learning, authentic relationships are key! The science of learning tells us that from birth, relationships and experiences drive brain development. As teachers, we have to opportunity and the duty to make relationship building a priority, thereby positively shaping the developing brains of the children in our care.
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