This week we are finishing the book!!!! I wish I would have read the Giving and Getting Feedback chapter last week as I was babysitting my granddaughter and my daughter came home from teaching her second grade class one night talking about “Shawn” and the difficulties he was having accepting responsibilities for his actions. It did not help Shawn’s mother called to yell at my daughter because Shawn was so upset because the other kids were making him get in trouble. I will be sharing this book with her and especially this chapter! The chapter once again reminds me of how important it is to TEACH what may seem to be obvious skills to children. The concept of self evaluating may seem to be a high expectation for preschoolers but is such an important skill as they move ahead socially and to be successful with academic standards. Besides the suggestions in the book what would be some simple developmentally appropriate ways for preschoolers to learn to self-evaluate?
I was very struck at the bottom of page 167 with “ we don’t want them to make choices to seek our approval.” How could we also send this message to parents?
And finally on page 178 I really felt she summed up the book with: “...by teaching the emotional language with the social skills, we can layer on the academic content and have successful and rigorous discussions, questions, discoveries and achievements that go far beyond any scripted curriculum.” So powerful to get the suggestions in the book in place to be create a learning environment. I hope this book study has giving you suggestions that has changed your practice.
We have offered this learning opportunity in this blog form knowing how difficult it is for professionals to get away from the classroom for PD. We are still held accountable that it has changed practice which benefit students. Please fill out the following impact survey and evaluation: https://docs.google.com/a/cesa9.org/forms/d/1RZVqLouE1abNojYfpQvrVZ55xKuXxSJ-2KDgZfLQo0Y/viewform At the beginning of this book group I listed the expectations to get a certificate to be posting two times and giving a resource. Half of you have been able to do that. I hope that the rest of you can post at least once in this final week and we will send out certificates next week. Thanks!
AND we have a few more book winners! Eveyln Azbell won Open This Little Book, Laurie Jacoby won Whimpsy’s Very Heavy Things and Lindsay Steig won My Blue is Happy! I will get these to you soon!
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