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Creating Core Memories In The Classroom, Lori Desautels
Creating Core Memories In The Classroom, Lori Desautels
Scholarship and Professional Work – Education
We all create core memories. When we encounter an experience with heightened emotion, our memory systems remember the experiences because of the intense emotions associated with the event. We know that memories can become diluted or distorted with time and distance. When we remember an event from our past, our brains secrete the same chemicals from the same neurotransmitters called forth when the experience happened, creating the same feelings.
New Class Roles: Building Environments Of Cooperation, Lori Desautels
New Class Roles: Building Environments Of Cooperation, Lori Desautels
Scholarship and Professional Work – Education
We see students survive every day. We ourselves survive every day -- a class, a test, a conflict, a relationship, and a challenge. Yet surviving is very different than thriving! Many students that we see daily bring a degree of their stress into our classrooms. Thankfully, many of them also have supports in their lives that allow them to manage this stress in a productive manner.
Addressing Our Needs: Maslow Comes To Life For Educators And Students, Lori Desautels
Addressing Our Needs: Maslow Comes To Life For Educators And Students, Lori Desautels
Scholarship and Professional Work – Education
In the mid-1950s, humanistic psychologist Abraham Maslow created a theory of basic, psychological and self-fulfillment needs that motivate individuals to move consciously or subconsciously through levels or tiers based on our inner and outer satisfaction of those met or unmet needs. As a parent and educator, I find this theory eternally relevant for students and adults, especially in our classrooms. After studying it over the past couple of years, my graduate and undergraduate students have decided that every classroom should display a wall-sized diagram of the pyramid, as students and teachers alike place pins and post-its on the varying tiers …