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Training teaches how to carry out a specific task more efficiently and reliably. Education, on the other hand, opens and enriches a person’s mind. To train a person, you need know nothing about who they really are, or what they love, or why. Education reaches out to embrace the whole person. Historically, we have treated money as a matter of training, rather than education in its wider and more dignified sense.
What the philosophy of education teaches us about worrying less about money. (via explore-blog)

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i-l-l-u-m-i-n-e: Glitter jars - I was taught about glitter jars during my time as an inpatient. I learnt the magic of glitter during a self-soothe class as part of an emotional coping skills lesson. There’s no science, no counting, no acceptance and no forceful methods involved in the alteration of your emotions during use of the glitter jar - just distraction. Making a glitter jar is simple. You will need: 1 jar (with a lid of course!) 1/10 vegetable oil 9/10 water glitter - lots of! food colouring anything else shiny Add the water and vegetable oil together. Add a few drops of food colouring, all of the glitter and anything else shiny. Put the lid on (tight!) and shake it. When you want to cut / binge / scream / cry, shake the glitter jar and watch until the glitter is settled. It’ll calm you and hopefully the emotion will pass.

i-l-l-u-m-i-n-e:

Glitter jars -

I was taught about glitter jars during my time as an inpatient. I learnt the magic of glitter during a self-soothe class as part of an emotional coping skills lesson.

There’s no science, no counting, no acceptance and no forceful methods involved in the alteration of your emotions during use of the glitter jar - just distraction.

Making a glitter jar is simple. You will need:

  • 1 jar (with a lid of course!)
  • 1/10 vegetable oil
  • 9/10 water
  • glitter - lots of!
  • food colouring
  • anything else shiny

Add the water and vegetable oil together. Add a few drops of food colouring, all of the glitter and anything else shiny. Put the lid on (tight!) and shake it.

When you want to cut / binge / scream / cry, shake the glitter jar and watch until the glitter is settled. It’ll calm you and hopefully the emotion will pass.

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so-treu:

covenesque:

mixedkidsclub:

forevercryingbecausemerlin:

“mum I’m moving to finland” “okay”

So many things about this that any public school teacher could tell you.

  • Kids need recess
  • Standardized testing accomplishes nothing, especially when they have to take 4-5 a year
  • Individualized attention from teachers is necessary
  • SpEd and EBD students do better behavior-wise when their integrated into mainstream classrooms.

But is the government listening?

I say this every time this Finland meme comes up and finally someone on the Atlantic agrees with me.

The reason why this works there and not here (or any place with a non homogenous population) is bc colonizers have no interest in educating the “other” or consider them equals that deserve unfettered access to education. This is why private schools exist. Ppl did not want their kids educated alongside people who they viewed beneath them.

That inequality conversation needs to be addressed first before any progress happens.

^^^^^^^^^

Exactly why Japan’s education system is successful and rigorous as well. In a homogenized society, this shit is perfect, but America is not a homogenized society, it is a classist, racist society.

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mentalflossr: In times of tragedy, we look to teachers for guidance and hope. We can think of no better teacher than Mister Rogers. “When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’ To this day, especially in times of ‘disaster,’ I remember my mother’s words, and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers—so many caring people in this world.” Continue Reading: 20 Gentle Quotations from Mister Rogers

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In times of tragedy, we look to teachers for guidance and hope. We can think of no better teacher than Mister Rogers.


“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’ To this day, especially in times of ‘disaster,’ I remember my mother’s words, and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers—so many caring people in this world.”

Continue Reading: 20 Gentle Quotations from Mister Rogers

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rubber barber: create hairstyles for each character by erasing.

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teachingliteracy: loveemickey: Perf

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loveemickey:

Perf

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Beleaguered? Not Teachers, a Poll on ‘Well-Being’ Finds

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Recent battles over school funding, performance evaluations and tenure have given rise to public perceptions of a beleaguered teaching corps across the United States.

But a new analysis of polling data from the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index that examines “well-being” as measured by a number of indicators, including physical and emotional health, job satisfaction and feelings of community and safety, found that teachers ranked second only to physicians.

In addition, teachers ranked above all other professions in answers to questions about whether they “smiled or laughed yesterday,” as well as whether they experienced happiness and enjoyment the day before the survey.

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What is a reluctant reader?

This term is used to describe a child who can read but has little interest in reading regularly.

Some children see reading as hard work and will only read when and what they have to. We, as parents, want our children to experience the joy of reading and ensure that they have the best advantages in their education.

Reading is a skill that needs to be practised.

Children who read a lot have better comprehension, extensive vocabulary and vivid imaginations. They are better equipped to handle the volumes of reading they have to do in secondary school.
So what can we do ?

20 Tips to Support a Reluctant Reader - Patsy Lyons from Tara Book Company (via westmeathlibrary)

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A teacher in New York was teaching her class about bullying and gave them the following exercise to perform. She had the children take a piece of paper and told them to crumple it up, stomp on it and really mess it up but do not rip it. Then she had them unfold the paper, smooth it out and look at how scarred and dirty is was. She then told them to tell it they’re sorry. Now even though they said …they were sorry and tried to fix the paper, she pointed out all the scars they left behind. And that those scars will never go away no matter how hard they tried to fix it. That is what happens when a child bullies another child, they may say they’re sorry but the scars are there forever. The looks on the faces of the children in the classroom told her the message hit home. Pass it on.

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teachingliteracy: world-shaker: The Teacher’s Apple: Why Apple is Dominating the Tech War for Today’s Classroom [INFOGRAPHIC] Click through for the full thing! (source: http://www.opencolleges.edu.au)

teachingliteracy:

world-shaker:

The Teacher’s Apple: Why Apple is Dominating the Tech War for Today’s Classroom [INFOGRAPHIC]

Click through for the full thing!

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