Title of Reading: How One Teacher Is Teaching Her Students To Be Kind.
Author: By Janice Walton
Synopsis: Teaching kindness needs to be explicit, and can be planned, but can also be taught during incidental teaching times when they arise.
Motivation: Kindness improves test scores and contributes to students having a growth mindset. It needs to be included in our daily curriculum.
How will it help me? How has it helped me?
The classroom will continue to be a safe and happy space when we have a culture of kindness in the classroom. I need to model it explicitly myself, but also highlight when students are generous, gracious and kind to each other. I will look into the links shared in the reading (Classroom Dojo videos, TPT resources with Kindness Secret Agents etc) to add to my classroom. We already have a Warm Fuzzies container where students can write nice notes to each other and I will read them out every Friday. This brings lots of smiles to children's faces.
So What?
Continue to talk about kindness daily, and start to use some of the above-mentioned resources.
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