Sticking Up For Your Students

Ms. Pierson passed away this year. I appreciate very much what she shared in this talk, especially how her mom was a role model of effective, caring teaching. There is a high cost to teach well; not only do teachers spent a part of their pay for supplies and sometimes the kids' basic needs, but our minds are filled with problem-solving for lesson plans, activities, school policy, and kids' needs--24/7. I think we should also be paid a consulting fee for all the networking and research we do in our 'spare' time.

 

Some teachers help kids because their heart dictates it; some teachers help kids because it is a moral necessity. Or maybe to keep a teaching position. Whatever the motive, we help kids. Here is information as a starting point for one of our young friends' most basic needs--social and emotional growth and development.

Why Every Student Needs a Teacher Champion

 http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/09/why-every-student-needs-a-teacher-champion/

Rita Pierson: Every kid needs a champion

http://www.ted.com/talks/rita_pierson_every_kid_needs_a_champion.html 

Taking a Relationship-Centered Approach to Education

http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2013/09/11/03thigpen.h33.html?tkn=NXCCukpV4VcaOwLOZJtT21uIXn77e6tPCRyf&cmp=clp-sb-ascd 

Social and Emotional Learning

http://www.edutopia.org/social-emotional-learning 

Social and Emotional Learning: What is it? How can we use it to help our children?

http://www.aboutourkids.org/articles/social_emotional_learning_what_it_how_can_we_use_it_help_our_children 

Social and Emotional Learning Gaining New Traction Under Common Core

 http://www.edsource.org/today/2013/social-and-emotional-learning-gaining-new-traction-under-common-core/32161

 

http://www.gostrengths.com/social-and-emotional-learning/