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This inspiring, practical and highly usable activity book shows how to create peaceful, productive classrooms from the first day of school. Teach students respect, acceptance and conflict resolution skills while also improving writing and language skills-important with today's emphasis on academics and accountability. The Peaceful Classroom in Action will show you how to: [ create a peaceful classroom from the first day of school [ build a climate of respect [ help kids resolve conflicts [ maintain an atmosphere of peacefulness throughout the year [ teach all your students, even your most difficult, how to be peacemakers [ improve your students' writing ability as you teach peacemaking concepts [ integrate literature and peacemaking [ build collaboration across the curriculum [ implement effective techniques for dealing with challenging students These simple peacemaking skills will enhance your students emotional competence and make classrooms everywhere caring and inviting places. (A companion book to Learning the Skills of Peacemaking by Naomi Drew) Grades K-6.
Charting the progress of twelve children in a real Texas classroom, educator Donna Goertz shows how positive change can occur given the proper environment. In each case she describes a child's transformation from destructive troublemaker to responsible citizen of the classroom community. Readers will learn how to apply Montessori methods to virtually any early elementary environment.
Children in a classroom use a peace rose as a means to communicate with each other. They settle disagreements and call attention to hurtful behavior. Some children understand that they can resolve their differences even when the rose is not present.
The Peaceable Classroom first defines a pedagogy of nonviolence and then analyzes certain contemporary approaches to rhetoric and literary studies in light of nonviolent theory.
A step-by- step and easy to understand guide to support teachers, social workers, and administrators in learning all of the techniques of the Calm Classroom program. The accompanying CDs and presented by the Luster Learning Institute's staff. An exact demonstration of how to implement each three minute modules is provided. The manual is fully illustrated and includes a comprehensive description of the following age appropriate techniques: * Twenty-five physical stretching movements, steady postures and relaxation techniques * Twelve breathing techniques to maintain alertness and energy * Twelve mental concentration and focusing methods * Templates and instructions for designing a unlimited variety of unique lesson plans
Wouldn’t it be great if your child could exercise, have fun, and build concentration skills all at the same time? In 2006, the Little Flower Yoga program was developed by teacher and certified yoga instructor Jennifer Cohen Harper, when her successful use of yoga in her kindergarten classroom led to requests by other students, teachers, and administrators for yoga programs of their own. Harper slowly began to teach more and more yoga classes, and eventually recruited other yoga teachers with education backgrounds to continue growing what had become a flourishing program. Little Flower Yoga for Kidsoffers this fun and unique program combining yoga and mindfulness in an easy-to-read format. Written specifically for parents and kids, the book aims at teaching children to pay attention, increase focus, and balance their emotions—all while building physical strength and flexibility. Based on a growing body of evidence that yoga and mindfulness practices can help children develop focus and concentration, the simple yoga exercises in this book can easily be integrated into their child’s daily routine, ultimately improving health, behavior, and even school achievement. The book details the five main components of the program: connect, breath, move, focus, and relax. Drawing on these components, Harper shares practical activities that parents can use with their children both on a daily basis and as applied to particularly challenging issues. And while this book is targeted to parents, teachers may also find it extremely useful in helping students achieve better attention and focus. For more information about this innovative program, visit www.littlefloweryoga.com.
To truly move toward a more peaceful society, it is imperative that peace education better address structural and institutional violence. This requires that it be integrated into institutions outside of schools and universities. Doing so will be challenging, as many of these institutions are structured on domination and control, not on partnership and shared power. In particular, U.S. criminal justice, social services and prevention programs, and sport have tended to be dominator-modeled. This book offers analysis and suggestions for overcoming these challenges and for integrating peace education into important social institutions. Creativity will be one of the most useful assets in moving peace education from schools to other institutions. This book argues that with creative visioning, collaboration, and implementation, peace education can be integrated into the most challenging situations and provide hope for holistic changes in our society.
Montessori Lesson Plan September 4 weeks of DAILY curriculumHere is my story: Maybe it's yours as well (or something similar) I connected with the Montessori philosophy and I was excited to get started. I was armed with my albums. But then I was offered my first primary classroom. I took over a classroom but the Montessori Teacher (also known as the "Guide" or "Directress") before left no record keeping tracking the progress of the children I had in my charge. I started to panic, wondering where I would even begin. Can you believe this has happened to me? Twice!How incredible it would have been if my lesson plans had been in place! I would have just taken out my September lesson plan and taught with confidence, knowing the educational terrain the children had covered and ready to welcome the new students to the classroom with leaders intact.Maybe your class is mostly 3 year olds.Perfect! You can take the lesson plans, look through the daily lesson plans and decide upfront which lesson should be set as circle time or group lessons and which ones you can save for your non-nappers. Maybe it's been awhile since you have been in the classroom.If you have your albums, you can take my lesson plans, look at the reference codes listed next to each lesson and cross reference it with your album and prepare your room by day by week or by month!Maybe you just want a fresh approach to structuring your classroom.I promise these lesson plans will cause you to FALL BACK IN LOVE with your classroom environment, leaving you more time to focus on the most important part of this job: bonding with your students!You are in the right place.88 pagesTopics We Introduce in September: Our peaceful classroom - Introductory LessonsThe children make the classroom rulesPeace TableNature TableCare of the classroom environmentCare of the classroom animalsGrace & Courtesy lessonsParts of the bodyControl of the bodyCare of the bodyKindnessFeelingsSensesCelebration of Life
