Pinning Down a Definition of Emotional Resilience
Education seems agreed that we need more emotional resilience as it is a good thing but, you can’t develop it until you define it. Via Daniel Sobel. Download the pdf … Continue reading
Managing Emotions: Key Questions to Ask
A useful infographic from The Gottman Institute explores how to develop emotional resilience and awareness as a student and a teacher.
10 Things to Stop Saying to Your Kids (and What to Say Instead)
Current research shows that some of the most commonly used and seemingly positive phrases we use with kids are actually quite destructive. Despite our good intentions, these statements teach children … Continue reading
Behaviour: What’s Below the Surface
I’ve always believed that what constitutes poor student behaviour has reasons. If you can understand the reasons which bring on the behaviour, you might have as chance of modifying it. … Continue reading
Emotional First Aid for Teachers and Students!
The best teachers will be remembered not for the content of their lessons, but for the care and support they showed their students. This outlines a systematic way to support … Continue reading
Fake news harms children’s self-esteem and trust, say MPs | BBC News
Children with poor literacy skills struggle most to tell which stories are false, says a report. A few weeks ago, Chloe, 13, shared a hoax story about the alleged death of … Continue reading
Universal Human Rights
This should be displayed in the offices of every politician and military leader to remind them of their obligations to every human being… http://zenpencils.com/comic/134-the-universal-declaration-of-human-rights/
The What and How of Flipped Learning
An interesting blog post from WIZIQ on the ideas behind the concept of Flipped Learning… Teachers crave to see all their students participating enthusiastically in the class. Instructors adopting flipped … Continue reading
Data Management and Purposes
The fact that we can accumulate data, does not give it some spurious meaning or validation. The management of data in schools should be about yielding insights into how to … Continue reading
Teenagers ‘let down over degree choices’ | BBC News
Teenagers in England are having to make choices about university on the basis of too little information, a report by the Public Accounts Committee warns. The PAC report says this … Continue reading
Emotional Intelligence and Leadership
Look at the graphic and then cross reference it to the leaders you have known…
Women Who Watched ‘The X-Files’ Pursued More Careers in STEM | www.fastcompany.com
The phenomenon has been known as “The Scully Effect”–named after Gillian Anderson’s character Dana Scully – and the Geena Davis Institute proved it’s real. Women who watched The X-Files regularly … Continue reading
Destination Dystopia…
In 2001 I was involved in taking young graduate engineers from Marconi, into Nottinghamshire schools as part of the SETNET programme for developing Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics into schools. … Continue reading
Streaming at five set me up to fail, says deputy head | BBC News
Sean Macnamara was put on “the oblong table” for low-ability pupils when he was still in reception. No-one told Sean and his friend Billy what being “an oblong” meant – … Continue reading
Teacher Stress-Buster
As the old Polish saying goes… “Not my circus, not my monkeys!” This useful template gives you a format to prevent your own burn out by making you focus on … Continue reading
A Picture of Language: The Fading Art of Diagramming Sentences | NPR
Once a popular way to teach grammar, the practice of diagramming sentences has fallen out of favor. When you think about a sentence, you usually think about words — not … Continue reading
Transactional Analysis in Language, Gesture and Expression
I was very taken when I was first introduced to Transactional Analysis at University. That and Erving Goffman’s Presentation of Self in Everyday Life were probably the two summit points … Continue reading
Hotter years ‘mean lower exam results’ | BBC News
Students taking exams in a summer heat wave might have always complained that they were hampered by the sweltering weather. But this study, from academics at Harvard, the University of … Continue reading
Measuring Friendship
Students attempt to quantify friendship and the qualities related to it: Not sure about the “special handshakes” though!
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