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Test ^o^
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What is Process?
It is the doing not the end result that is important.
We have to make sure our practices fit with our beliefs:
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Belief
- Process is more important than product
Practice
No cookie cutters
No art work sent home
Paint on table surfaces, boxes, etc.
Avoid scented or colored clay or playdough
Avoid crafts
~ Daniel Hodgins,
www.danieljhodgins.com
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Failure
Leo Toupin says, “that children who feel like a failure will do anything to remove that feeling. Even if that means hurting themselves or others”.
I worry that there are lots of children who feel like a failure. When they are not in environments that support feelings of success, they grow up to be adults who do horrible things to each other.
As parents and teachers we can prevent...
Workshops, Seminars, Keynotes Calendar for Daniel...
So many people have asked if I was going to be in your area presenting, I decided to post a calendar of my events up to this point. I will be adding as they are contracted. Hope you will join me, if I am near your area.
Daniel Hodgins
January
9, 2010. Mott Community College, Flint, Mi. Boys, Changing the Classroom, Not the Child. Contact becky.garske@mcc.edu
18, 2010. Onsted Community...
December 2009
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Attending a Funeral?
Someone emailed asking the following question?
“At what age should a child attend a funeral?”
The real question is not what age, but the relationship the child had with the person who died. If there was a close relationship then the child should attend, no matter what age. If there was a distant relationship the child doesn’t need to attend at any age.
Remember it is okay...
Do you have control of it?
A student came up to me after my keynote today at a conference to tell me her favorite quote that I said once in a class.
Ask yourself, “Do you have control of it?” if not then ”Get over it!”
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For more information on my workshops and seminars, please check out my website
Zero Tolerance Policies Have not Worked →
This article is another example how Zero Tolerance Policies in school districts across the country do not work. There is no evidence that Zero Tolerance Policies have decrease violence and in some school districts that have Zero policies the violence has increased since its initiation.
The best way to decrease violence is to give opportunities for POWER….
Turning the object into a lesson...
