How To Promote Resilience In Your Students
How To Promote Resilience In Your Students
Is resilience the key to student success?
How to promote resilience in our students is a hot topic in education and health at the moment and for a good reason.
Resilience is the ability to cope with negative life events and challenges. It has been described as the capacity to 'bounce back' from difficult situations and persist in the face of adversity.
Developing resilience in young people is considered by many as the antidote to the epidemic of mental ill-health across our society today.
The rate of students with anxiety and depression is of growing concern (Sawyer et al, 2000; Mission Australia, 2009) and schools are uniquely placed to contribute to healthy student attitudes and self-awareness.
How To Promote Resilience In Your Students
What Is The Purpose Of Discipline?
What Is The Purpose Of Discipline?
Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.
What Is The Purpose Of Discipline?
How to Get a Student to Own Their Behaviour
How to Get a Student to Own Their Behaviour
For children and young people who live in uncertain family situations, who do not trust easily and who do not have positive role modeling for taking responsibility, this may be like asking them to fly to the moon.
How to Get a Student to Own Their Behaviour
Why Rewards Don't Work
Why Rewards Don't Work
There are so many differing views on what positive reinforcement actually is, and whether you should or should not use it. Positive reinforcement can be a variety of things: grades on a report card, verbal praise, non-verbal acknowledgment, specific feedback and tangible rewards.
Here are 13 mistakes that teachers make when using reinforcement.
Why Rewards Don't Work
Marking Tips To Reduce Your Work Time
Marking Tips To Reduce Your Work Time
How many times have you taken that tub of books or assignments from the classroom to the car, into the house, back to the car, back to the classroom and still not completed the marking?
In your search for a balance between home and work, improved marking strategies could give you more flexibility and time… time that could be better spent doing other things!
Marking Tips To Reduce Your Work Time
What Are Logical Consequences?
What Are Logical Consequences?
Have you ever felt that it didn’t matter what the consequences were for a student’s behaviour, they didn’t make any difference? If a behaviour management strategy isn’t working, it may be time to change and perhaps that means taking a completely different approach.
Despite all our best efforts at prevention, there will be times when students do not always follow directions or comply with our expectations. So how do we respond in a way that will help students learn appropriate behaviour and maintain positive relationships?
What Are Logical Consequences?
6 Ways To Build A Positive Classroom Culture
6 Ways To Build A Positive Classroom Culture
Having a positive classroom culture is one of the most important elements of a successful learning environment and thus teachers should actively work towards creating a classroom culture that encourages participation and student success.
6 Ways To Build A Positive Classroom Culture
What Does It Mean To Have High Expectations For Your Students
What Does It Mean To Have High Expectations For Your Students
Your students will live up (or down!) to your expectations. Student achievement is strongly affected by what the teacher expects of them and this has been demonstrated by many educational researchers. The first and most famous experiment is known as the Pygmalion effect.
What Does It Mean To Have High Expectations For Your Students
Developing A Consistent Approach
Developing A Consistent Approach
Developing consistency in your teaching, strangely, does not mean being exactly the same all the time. Nor does it mean being a robot and not reacting to circumstances, or showing your real feelings.
Consistency does mean that students are fairly certain what they can expect from you. They know for example, that you will not get angry with them today, about something you laughed at yesterday.
Here are 6 ways to develop consistency in your teaching
Developing A Consistent Approach