Description
Book SynopsisNow more than ever, students need support. To meet their needs, educators should encourage their students to break from the mainstream by inspecting their experiences, and therefore expressing their own values. This endeavor will lead students to make choices that are best for themselves and others. It is important to support students in both relating and connecting to society, and to have hope and joy for meeting the day full on.
Educators need to give their students the opportunity to reveal their life histories, experiences, perspectives, and expectations in ways that are themed with the educators'' class curriculums. Doing so will naturally build inter-subjectivity. Increased inter-subjectivity leads to meaningful relationships and higher achievement. In turn, this will lead to stronger social relatedness and connectedness.
The purpose of Building, Maintaining, and Repairing Classroom Relationships is simple: to quickly build classroom relationships in a meta
Trade Review
"Great book with ideas and activities that can provide relevant moral, ethical, and social development strategies and approaches for educators. Trust is an important need for early childhood and elementary students. The book is proven to provide the much-needed successful approaches for incorporating trust as the steppingstone to high student achievement. Enhancing students’ moral development, hope, and long-term optimism are among the strengths of this text. A must-read for those who desire to provide joyful learning and helping students become lifetime trustful learners and helpers!" Gloria Kirkland Holmes, Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education, the University of Northern Iowa; author of Classroom Management and Effective Strategies to Motivate Students
Table of Contents
Dwight C. Watson: Foreword – Introduction – Summer Dreams: Sharing Skills and Experiences – Forever Sunrises: Classic Bridge Builders – Tell Us About an Uncloudy Day: Hopeful and Insightful – Seven Bridges Road: Crossing the Frightening Abyss … Gritty and Stark Reality – Papyrus in a Clear, Cold Stream: Engaging Writing Prompts – Loosening the Snare: Is There No Place on Earth for Me? – Thunderbirds Above the Great Plains: Double Your Happiness – Fresh Mountain Berries: Pulling on the Heartstrings of Our Students – Both Sides of the Sky, Both Sides of the Pillow: Time for a Cool Change – Touch the Sky, See the Future: Unasked for Advice – Eight Sunrises, Eight Sunbeams: Activities That Students Love.
