As educators are preparing for the coming school year, here is an awesome resource to help incorporate lessons and activities that promote kindness and compassion in the classroom.
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As educators are preparing for the coming school year, here is an awesome resource to help incorporate lessons and activities that promote kindness and compassion in the classroom.
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I think this information is sniigficant because we sometimes don’t think about how the bully might have once been the victim. We have to look at the whole individual, their background, their negatives and positives. If we only focus on their negatives and don’t help them to accentuate their positives they might never be able to grow and change.After getting to know Jake I thought back to some of my other students who also had issues with bullying others. Again most of the bullying incidents came from a prior incident in their community or on the bus. Now when I organize seating arrangements or collaborative groups I take into account who probably spends much more time together. Do they live in the same community? Ride the same bus? I use this information to determine who will work better together and who will not. I don’t totally group them on this one aspect, but it is a factor incorporated with many others now when I group or set up seating arrangements.I always want all of my children to feel safe and welcomed in my classroom and as a school. I think having open lines of dialogue are very important for this to happen. I make sure that the children feel like they can come to me without fear of ridicule whether they made good decisions or not. I really like to use community circle time to discuss any issues that students might be having in the class. I don’t single out individuals during this time; we talk as a group and share what we want to.I try to teach the students how to use different strategies for expressing their emotions other then hitting, threats, or things of that nature. We use role playing, games, self talk and other strategies during instructional time to foster those ideas as part of our classroom environment. I usually see the males benefit from these activities the most.At the end of the school year Jake had come a long way. He was much more expressive with his emotions in a positive way. He achieved greatly academically (which I knew he could do) but I think he even surprised himself. He did not bully others and had a good overall relationship with his classmates.
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