Over the past two decades, and perhaps even before the “No Child Left Behind Act,” policy makers and others have managed to drain civility, compassion, and courage from everyday classroom instruction. We have grown to become an educational system that is almost solely focused on academics at the expense of teaching to the whole child. Civility, Compassion, and Courage in Schools Today argues that civility, compassion and courage are absolutely essential to foster good citizenship—to encourage and motivate students to action—to take on the perspectives of others, and to see how they can become productive members in an ever changing global community. Using the authors’ “Model of Influence,” a four level hierarchy, they suggest that students can be taught to be more civil, compassionate, and courageous, even when facing adversity, and can move from developing a consciousness about these attributes into embracing influence and taking bold action. This book provides numerous examples as well as lesson plans designed to assist all educators to infuse their instruction with these critical attributes.
Format: HardbackCONTRIBUTORS: Patricia Kohler-EvansEAN: 9781475809756COUNTRY: United StatesPAGES: WEIGHT: 367 gHEIGHT: 240 cm
Educational strategies and policy, Educational administration and organization
In a world where standards and expectations are at an all-time high, Barnes and Kohler-Evans argue that educators are responsible for teaching beyond the books. Their new book is one that convicts the soul and reminds me why I ventured into the calling of teaching in the first place: to be the difference in order to make a difference., Civility, Compassion, and Courage in School Today: Strategies for Implementing in K-12 Classrooms empowers teachers to direct their classroom instruction towards the hope of more equitable world. With explicit scenarios and ample resources provided, teachers can imbed these practices into meaningful interactions with students to benefit both emotional and academic learning needs., In light of the incivility that transpires in many of our urban cities, this resource for educators is right on time. It is a research based tool built on a theoretical framework that meets the practical need of educators in their quest to support both the academic and social emotional needs of their students. This pragmatic book offers real world opportunities for educators to model as well as explicate and afford students the skills to demonstrate civility, compassion and courage in a world and, particular, a generation that is in dire need of these most important attributes. This book will definitely help us, as educators, not to "negate the humanity" of our students while providing them with the necessary practice that will assist them in "leaving the world a better place.
Patricia Kohler-Evans, EdD, serves as an associate professor at the University of Central Arkansas in the Department of Elementary, Literacy, and Special Education. With many years of experience in special education in schools and in district administration, she serves as an executive coach for public school leaders and works with teachers across the state of Arkansas, providing professional development in research-validated methodologies. Candice Dowd Barnes, EdD, serves as an assistant professor at the University of Central Arkansas in the Department of Elementary, Literacy and Special Education, and her background spans many years in early childhood education, leadership and administration. Her work with public schools, early care and education centers, teachers, leaders, and others professionals champions the role that curriculum and assessment, dispositions for learning, and healthy relationship play when creating pathways of success for all learners.
Over the past two decades, and perhaps even before the “No Child Left Behind Act,” policy makers and others have managed to drain civility, compassion, and courage from everyday classroom instruction. We have grown to become an educational system that is almost solely focused on academics at the expense of teaching to the whole child. Civility, Compassion, and Courage in Schools Today argues that civility, compassion and courage are absolutely essential to foster good citizenship—to encourage and motivate students to action—to take on the perspectives of others, and to see how they can become productive members in an ever changing global community. Using the authors’ “Model of Influence,” a four level hierarchy, they suggest that students can be taught to be more civil, compassionate, and courageous, even when facing adversity, and can move from developing a consciousness about these attributes into embracing influence and taking bold action. This book provides numerous examples as well as lesson plans designed to assist all educators to infuse their instruction with these critical attributes.
Format: HardbackCONTRIBUTORS: Patricia Kohler-EvansEAN: 9781475809756COUNTRY: United StatesPAGES: WEIGHT: 367 gHEIGHT: 240 cm
Patricia Kohler-Evans, EdD, serves as an associate professor at the University of Central Arkansas in the Department of Elementary, Literacy, and Special Education. With many years of experience in special education in schools and in district administration, she serves as an executive coach for public school leaders and works with teachers across the state of Arkansas, providing professional development in research-validated methodologies. Candice Dowd Barnes, EdD, serves as an assistant professor at the University of Central Arkansas in the Department of Elementary, Literacy and Special Education, and her background spans many years in early childhood education, leadership and administration. Her work with public schools, early care and education centers, teachers, leaders, and others professionals champions the role that curriculum and assessment, dispositions for learning, and healthy relationship play when creating pathways of success for all learners.
Die verhaal van die kasarm en die Calitze kom tot 'n mooi einde
Ek kan nie ’n boek summier toemaak nadat die slotsin geskryf is nie. Ek lees álles, tot by die outeursnotas en die bronnelys (gewoonlik gooi ek darem net vlugtig ’n oog oor die bonne!). Chanette Paul maak in die nota oor Maanschijnbaai 2, die verdere verhaal van Nan en Jeannie, die stelling: “Lesers moet my asseblief vergewe dat my verbeelding altyd die oorhand oor die werklikheid kry en verdigsel voorkeur bo feite.” (p.635) Ek wil daarby aanhaak en bieg dat ’n uitstekende verhoudingsroman soos hierdie tydelik die oorhand gekry het oor my traagheid om te lees oor reïnkarnasie en die esoteriese. Die klomp Calitzse het my tyd en aandag totaal gekaap.
Die skrywer wy die laaste bladsye aan ’n verduideliking oor hoe die Maanschijnbaai-tweeluik ontstaan het. Sy beweer dat die Calitze haar “onkant” betrap het. Sy wou ’n romanse skryf maar uiteindelik was die karakters so kompleks dat dit op twee dik boeke en ’n intense familiedrama uitgeloop het.
Van die onderskeie karakters raak diep waarhede kwyt wat die moeite werd is om te onderstreep en te onthou, soos Zach wat dit gehad het oor die risiko om iemand op ’n pedestal te plaas omdat jy daardeur die persoon ’n onreg aandoen. (p.539) En Nan, wat die hele klomp Calitze moes grootkry, se wyse raad: “Met eerlikheid, Jeannie, kom ’n mens baie verder as met opoffering. Met eerlikheid gee jy almal ’n regverdige kans. Opoffering beteken bloot jy doen iets teen jou sin omdat jy glo dit sal ander baat.” (p.613)
Maak seker dat jy genoeg tyd op hande het, dan lees jy hierdie tweeluik in volgorde, Jo & Sue, gevolg deur Nan & Jeannie. Dit is hersien en met splinternuwe, pragtige baadjies uitgegee deur Lapa Uitgewers.
A very practical approach and the tools to go along with it
Very useful. The book provides a structure and an approach that I would have been useful earlier in my investing. I like the five gates and in particular the attention to quality and management's capital allocation decisions. I will also apply the idea of the stewardship log to get more explicit on my investment theses. This is kind of the practical aspect of what I learned from the Psychology of Money.
the title ties in really nicley the more towards the end but the title for the book suits it real...
the book is very slow burn and takes a while for like captivating parts of the book .but the middle to the end the pace of the book is really nice the beginning is just repetitive and and trust the processes
Skuld en vergifnis word nie versuiker in hierdie jeugverhaal nie
Twee halwes maak ’n hele is die wenner van ’n jeugboekprys. Ek moes myself gedurig herinner wat die teikenmark nou eintlik is, want die sake wat aangeraak word, is geensins beperk tot jeugdige lesers nie. Die sterk newe-karakters dra daartoe by die selfs baie ouer lesers goed aanklank kan vind by die storielyn wat ontvou.
“Hulle sê as jy iemand vergewe, lig jy ’n vrag van daardie persoon se skouers af. Maar miskien is sommige dinge net te swaar om van iemand anders se skouers te lig?” (p.178) Baie aandag word gegee aan skuld en vergifnis, maar geen suikeromhulde kitsoplossings word aangebied nie. Dit sou die storie beslis vervlak het.
Na die aardskuddende ontdekking wat Lira gemaak het, gaan sy vir drie maande na ’n Griekse eiland en maak sy kennis met haar ander helfte, ’n halfsuster wat presies die teenoorgestelde is van haar eie ingetoë, overthinking self. Ek het daarvan gehou dat hulle, die verskille ten spyt, nie in heftige konflik was nie. Eerder besig om algaande te ontdek dat hulle by mekaar kan aanpas en albei sterker daardeur kan kom.
Marita van der Vyver is ’n waardige wenner van die Tafelberg Jeugboekprys en hierdie boek hoort beslis in van der Vyver versamelings. Dit is uitgegee deur Tafelberg, ’n druknaam van Jonathan Ball Uitgewers.
