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Cracking The Code Of Student Emotional Pain, Lori Desautels
Cracking The Code Of Student Emotional Pain, Lori Desautels
Lori Desautels
Every instructor wants to crack the code -- to determine just what children and adolescents need to transform feelings of defeat, cognitive and emotional exhaustion, and outright hostility into something positive. They want to connect with students whose stress response states are chronically activated. They want to help learners know that they are more than just their genetics or their history. They want to share with their most fragile students that the traumas of their past can strengthen rather than harden their minds and hearts. No one needs to live in constant conflict and pain.
"Whatever! You Think I Care?", Lori Desautels
"Whatever! You Think I Care?", Lori Desautels
Lori Desautels
I was thinking this afternoon of the misunderstood "language" from developing children and adolescents that we often receive as educators. This is the type of language that catches us off guard as we posture for the perfect discipline-minded "one-up" response. Sometimes it feels frustrating -- and actually downright awful -- when we hear our reactions unintentionally mirroring those anxious or angry emotions, personalizing these conversations when, in actuality, it has nothing to do with us!
Two Book Reviews, Richard G. Berlach
Two Book Reviews, Richard G. Berlach
Richard Berlach
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McLeod, J., & Reynolds, R. (2003). Planning for Learning. Tuggerah, Australia: Social Science Press.