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The Benefits Of Outdoor Education And Guidelines For Implementation In An Elementary Classroom, Jacqueline Jordan
The Benefits Of Outdoor Education And Guidelines For Implementation In An Elementary Classroom, Jacqueline Jordan
Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection
Outdoor education can significantly improve the wellbeing of children, in regards to their mental health, emotional welfare, and physical condition. This thesis will present the existing evidence supporting the benefits of outdoor education, alongside resources and strategies that I have explored to support teachers beginning to take their students outdoors. For the purposes of this thesis, outdoor education is defined as experiential learning that takes place outdoors or focuses on learning about the natural world. The curricular resource portion of the thesis will serve as a guide for educators wanting to implement outdoor education into their classrooms. This will include …
Islands Of Personality And Trains Of Thought, Lori Desautels
Islands Of Personality And Trains Of Thought, Lori Desautels
Scholarship and Professional Work – Education
In the film Inside Out, 11-year-old Riley holds several islands of personality in her brain. These islands were created from her past core memories, experiences, interests, and passions. Positive and negative core memories create these islands that make up our personality or sense of self. Riley's included Family Island, Friendship Island, Soccer Island, and Goofball Island. Our brains form islands of personality (or, for the purposes of this discussion, islands of self) because of our interests, relationships, experiences, and how others in our lives have affirmed, supported, or possibly weakened our thoughts about who we are and …
How Emotions Affect Learning, Behaviors, And Relationships, Lori Desautels
How Emotions Affect Learning, Behaviors, And Relationships, Lori Desautels
Scholarship and Professional Work – Education
We need all of our emotions for thinking, problem solving, and focused attention. We are neurobiologically wired, and to learn anything, our minds must be focused and our emotions need to "feel" in balance. Emotional regulation is necessary so that we can remember, retrieve, transfer, and connect all new information to what we already know. When a continuous stream of negative emotions hijacks our frontal lobes, our brain's architecture changes, leaving us in a heightened stress-response state where fear, anger, anxiety, frustration, and sadness take over our thinking, logical brains.
Energy And Calm: Change It Up And Calm It Down!, Lori Desautels
Energy And Calm: Change It Up And Calm It Down!, Lori Desautels
Scholarship and Professional Work – Education
Unlike the sequels to movies, I hope that part two of last year's Energy and Calm post will continue to strengthen your understanding of how our brains naturally learn, think, and behave. So let's return to the calming yet energizing zone of focused attention practices and brain breaks, a place that would greatly benefit students -- and their teachers -- when revisited frequently.
Meta-Collaboration: Thinking With Another, Lori Desautels
Meta-Collaboration: Thinking With Another, Lori Desautels
Scholarship and Professional Work – Education
What if we could dramatically improve our thought processes and learning strategies by tapping into the social genius of another? What if a classmate, colleague, or friend could help us recognize and claim our strengths, new habits of thought, and strategies from a perspective that we never imagined by ourselves? As human beings, our survival depends on others. Our ability to cooperate and collaborate has trumped the stress response state of competition within our species and throughout evolution. With a group affiliation to nurture these relationships, we can strengthen and reappraise our own thought processes.
The Key Of Connection, Lori Desautels
The Key Of Connection, Lori Desautels
Scholarship and Professional Work – Education
Over the past few weeks, I have learned deeply. My students were paramount teachers as I was privileged to share a part of their interior worlds, their "private logic" that is a culmination of accumulated beliefs, experiences, values, thoughts and feelings. This inner world is often kept tucked away unless an environment is created that allows for feelings of safety and an untainted sense of belonging. When any child or adult enters into a space that accepts, inspires and affirms their "ever-changing personhood," we have finally found the key that unlocks the door to extravagant learning! What is that key? …
Using Picture Books To Build Common Schema In The Middle School English Classroom, Kristina Lynn Albarello
Using Picture Books To Build Common Schema In The Middle School English Classroom, Kristina Lynn Albarello
Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection
A single class is made up of thirty students, thirty individuals with their own experiences, knowledge, skills, beliefs, and understandings. Then, of course, multiply that by six classes a day. A middle school teacher is met with the overwhelming task every day of connecting these 180 individuals to the skill or standard they need to learn that day. Despite any teacher's best efforts to get to know his or her students, no teacher will ever be able to know exactly what each student's schema (a framework of prior knowledge that helps a person make sense of experiences) includes about a …