Posts belonging to Category Positive Attributes
Posted by Chip on May 11, 2010
Standing up with self-control is the final of the five key CARES skills underlying Responsive Classroom practice that help build positive proactive attributes in children both socially and academically. The other four are cooperation, assertion, responsibility and empathy.
The ability to control and regulate feelings, thoughts, and actions are at the core of cognitive growth and [...]
Categories: Building Community, Managing Behavior, Positive Attributes, The Responsive Classroom® approach |
Tags: Building Community, bullying, cooperation, Managing Behavior, peer pressure, Positive Attributes, Responsive Classroom approach, self-control, social skills, social-emotional learning | 
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Posted by Chip on May 5, 2010
As reported by the Boston Globe, on May 4, Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick signed into law one of the most comprehensive antibullying measures ever passed. The family of 11-year-old Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover, who killed himself in April 2009 after extensive bullying, attended the signing, as did a group of teenagers who advocated for a statewide [...]
Categories: Building Community, Managing Behavior, Positive Attributes, The Responsive Classroom® approach |
Tags: Building Community, bullying, cooperation, empathy, Managing Behavior, peer pressure, Positive Attributes, Responsive Classroom approach, social skills, social-emotional learning | 1 Comment »
Posted by Chip on April 22, 2010
Assertion is one of the five key CARES skills underlying Responsive Classroom practice that help build positive proactive attributes in children both socially and academically. The other four are cooperation, responsibility, empathy, and self-control.
Teaching assertion is the business of raising every voice in the classroom every day with conscious purposefulness.
If we don’t teach children how [...]
Categories: Building Community, Managing Behavior, Positive Attributes, The Responsive Classroom® approach |
Tags: assertion, Building Community, bullying, children’s positive attributes, Managing Behavior, Morning Meeting, Positive Attributes, Responsive Classroom approach, social-emotional learning | Post a Comment »
Posted by Chip on April 14, 2010
In reflecting on some of the responses to my last blog about bullying (and what we can do to be more proactive in our classrooms and schools to address this serious issue at all grade levels), I spent some time thinking more deeply about the social skills at the core of the Responsive Classroom® approach [...]
Categories: Building Community, Managing Behavior, Positive Attributes, The Responsive Classroom® approach |
Tags: Building Community, bullying, cooperation, Managing Behavior, peer pressure, Positive Attributes, Responsive Classroom approach, social skills, social-emotional learning | Post a Comment »
Posted by Chip on February 2, 2010
In my entries about children’s positive attributes, you can find details about the kinds of strengths children seem to display at different ages and stages of their development. No two children are the same, of course, and each will gravitate to different interests at the same ages because different things excite different children, energize them, [...]
Categories: Parent Questions and Concerns, Positive Attributes |
Tags: children's positive attributes, children's strengths, observing children, parent concerns, parent questions, Parent Questions and Concerns, Positive Attributes, Strength Awakening, The Affinities Program | Post a Comment »
Posted by Chip on January 22, 2010
Thanks to all the wonderful people at Responsive Classroom, you’re now seeing a new-year, new-decade look for my blog, Yardsticks4-14.com. You’ll find that it’s now easier to post and find comments from other readers on any topic of interest related to child development, parenting, teaching, school, and educational issues. It’s also now easier to be [...]
Categories: Developmental Needs, Managing Behavior, Positive Attributes, Uncategorized |
Tags: behavior challenges, children's positive attributes, children's strengths, understanding children, what's normal for my child | Post a Comment »
Posted by Chip on August 12, 2009
About a month ago, my grandson, Isaiah, turned ten. For a couple of months before his birthday I had been teasing him a little about what it meant to become a double-digit person. “You know, Isaiah, when you turn ten you’re going to magically stop teasing your sister.” Or “Isaiah, did you know that double-digit [...]
Categories: Developmental Needs, Positive Attributes |
Tags: Billy Collins, developmental changes, fifth grade, ten-year-olds | 1 Comment »
Posted by Chip on August 6, 2009
Closer to teenagers than middle childhood, the twelves, too, are still tweeners. Twelves have enormous positive energy for both independent and group endeavors, whether at school, in sports, or in after-school activities such as dance, gymnastics, martial arts, chess, cooking, or crafts. This is a great age for camp, whether day or residential. More mature [...]
Categories: Developmental Needs, Positive Attributes |
Tags: children's positive attributes, children's strengths, developmental changes, Developmental Needs, Positive Attributes, seventh grade, twelve-year-olds | Post a Comment »
Posted by Chip on August 3, 2009
Elevens are powerful advocates, strong believers, and budding lawyers. They are passionate about their ideas and their opinions, their allegiances and their sense of justice. They are devoted to their classmates and peer groups,and the social negotiations surrounding cliques, which tend to peak at eleven and twelve, elevens are in a clear growth spurt both [...]
Categories: Developmental Needs, Positive Attributes |
Tags: children's positive attributes, children's strengths, developmental changes, Developmental Needs, eleven-year-olds, Positive Attributes, sixth grade | Post a Comment »
Posted by Chip on July 16, 2009
Double-digit kids, these tens can take on anything and love every minute of it (well, almost). If you sense my unbridled enthusiasm for this age, you’re not off the mark. It didn’t take me long as a teacher to latch onto the understanding that if you want to teach in “middle childhood,” there is no [...]
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Tags: bellasara.com, children's positive attributes, children's strengths, developmental changes, Developmental Needs, fifth grade, Positive Attributes, Rick Riordan, ten-year-olds | Post a Comment »
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