Helping Students Navigate a Violent World | Teaching Tolerance

Helping Students Navigate a Violent World | Teaching Tolerance

What Motivates Teachers: It's More Than Money

What Motivates Teachers: It's More Than Money

Please check out the Resources - Tragedy in Schools tab for information on coping with the school shootings in Connecticut

Solving the "Play" Problem - Brewster, NY, United States, ASCD EDge Blog post - A Professional Networking Community for Educators

Article about the need for reflective and unstructured time among elementary students:

Solving the "Play" Problem - Brewster, NY, United States, ASCD EDge Blog post - A Professional Networking Community for Educators

THE HIGHLIGHTS.....

• Provide time to be one with the world.  Too much education takes place indoors.  For students who aren’t involved in outdoor sports, their only outdoor time in a given day may be running from the front door to catch the bus.  That isn’t good, and it doesn’t provide time for students to truly “see” a different world then they are used to.  Contrary to what some might believe, any class can be held outdoors.  That doesn’t mean the focus of a lesson needs to be on studying the world outside, but a Shakespearean reading on school grounds, a study of bus idling procedures, and/or a playing field area calculation all provide students with the chance to observe more than a classroom.

• Promote percolation.  Instead of letting the class end with a bell (or the transition to lunch or recess), build in five or ten minutes for students to reflect.  For many students, reflection doesn’t just happen, and strategies (such as creating a “Questions I have. . .” chart, or an “If it were up to me. . .” learning progression statement) should be incorporated to help students begin to become more active thinkers.  By making thinking time a necessary part of your work with students, you’ll encourage them to reflect regularly and often.

• Push for unstructured “play.”  The teacher I was working with earlier this week told me about a recent time that he was taking a bunch of students outside for recess.  Unfortunately for students, the playground balls that were usually available for recess could not be used.  Students stood around for a minute or so, and then asked to return inside.  Very few seemed to even realize that there was much more to do outside than play an organized game of football or soccer.  In some respects, many of our students today need to be “forced” to play in an unstructured-environment, if for no other reason than to learn what it means to just be a “kid.”

The benefits of teaching students about effort - Related Stories - ASCD SmartBrief

The benefits of teaching students about effort - Related Stories - ASCD SmartBrief

Hope for the Holidays

Hope for Holidays Flier 2012

Student Singers

Congratulations to Students Selected to Perform at the 2013 FMEA All-State Elementary Chorus Concert

http://www.duvalschools.org/static/contact/communications/press%20release/2012_Press_Releases/pr1119.asp

Here is the School Counseling Update presented to the advisory committee on Friday, November 9th.  Email me with comments or questions at jenkinsb@duvalschools.org.

SC update

Montessori program embraced by Englewood school

Montessori program embraced by Englewood school

YES!!!

Helping Adolescents Achieve Optimal Wellness: Five Tips for Parents — Whole Child Education

Helping Adolescents Achieve Optimal Wellness: Five Tips for Parents — Whole Child Education

When Students Do The Teaching | Edutopia

When Students Do The Teaching | Edutopia

Cracking the Behavior Code

An excellent article on behavior and interventions in the classroom

Cracking the Behavior Code

"Spin-Doctor Parenting": 5 Reasons Not to Minimize Your Child's Feelings

"Spin-Doctor Parenting": 5 Reasons Not to Minimize Your Child's Feelings

Great Article on Motivation & Self Esteem

20tips Self Esteem

Interesting article about perfectionist tendencies

How Not to Talk to Your Kids

Check out this link to an ASCA publication

Meeting Your School Counselor - Back To School Tips

Make Service Learning Global - Global Learning - Education Week

Make Service Learning Global - Global Learning - Education Week

Meet Your School Counselor

Trying to link the staff presentation for tomorrow.

Staff Presentation

The link works but the presentation was converted to google docs and has some odd formatting.  If anyone has technical skills and can give me a quick lesson on uploading a powerpoint to blogger, I would love to meet you!

Mrs. Jenkins
School Counselor
J. Allen Axson

Ability to Pay Attention May Predict College Success, Study Says - Early Years - Education Week

Ability to Pay Attention May Predict College Success, Study Says - Early Years - Education Week

I have seen that Montessori methodology helps build concentration.

Random Name Generator

More technology fun

Random Name Generator

Check out this article for information on new technology for lesson planning

Learnist = Pinterest for Learning!

Formula Written for Math Success

The Top 10 Ways School Counselors Can Support Teachers

The Top 10 Ways School Counselors Can Support Teachers

ASCD Express 7.18 - Anchoring the Academically Adrift

ASCD Express 7.18 - Anchoring the Academically Adrift

Educational Leadership:College, Careers, Citizenship:Habits of Success

Educational Leadership:College, Careers, Citizenship:Habits of Success