The Responsive Classroom: A Practical Approach for Teaching
Children to Care by Dr. Belinda Gimbert:
[excerpt]
Approaching issues of classroom management and discipline is
much more than what teachers do when children break rules
and misbehave. Rather than simply reacting to problems, we
need to establish an ongoing social curriculum, we need to
encourage children to participate in community, we need to
teach self-control, and most importantly, we need to accept
the potential of children to learn these things and the
potential of teachers to teach them.
Helping children learn to take better care of themselves, of
each other, and of their classroom is not a waste of
instructional time. It’s the most enduring task that
teachers do... [Click below to read the article.]
The Responsive Classroom: A Practical Approach for Teaching Children to Care by Dr. Belinda Gimbert
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