Direct connection with students' unique identities is the key to teaching them. Every student possesses a distinct combination of strengths and insecurities that will not respond to a one-size-fits-all teaching method. Reach Before You Teach shows educators how to form the nurturing, individualized connections that make students feel worthy, fulfilled, and ready to flourish as learners. The book details: Practical, empowering information about how a sense of self comes to be, and what threatens it. Interventions that soften the myriad defenses students develop to protect themselves. How to…mehr
Direct connection with students' unique identities is the key to teaching them. Every student possesses a distinct combination of strengths and insecurities that will not respond to a one-size-fits-all teaching method. Reach Before You Teach shows educators how to form the nurturing, individualized connections that make students feel worthy, fulfilled, and ready to flourish as learners. The book details: Practical, empowering information about how a sense of self comes to be, and what threatens it. Interventions that soften the myriad defenses students develop to protect themselves. How to address the often-overlooked connections between physical, social, and emotional health and classroom performance.
Paula Prentis was a conflict resolution counselor and a rape crisis counselor in New York City before earning her master¿s degree in social work (MSW) at New York University. Later, she continued training at Westchester Institute for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy and worked in private practice. Prentis is certified in past life regression therapy and continues her professional interests through workshops, lectures, and conferences in neuroscience and the mind/body connection. In addition, with Chris Parrott, Prentis is the coauthor of the Your Self Series of books and website. Your Self Series is a curriculum that facilitates teen identity development and is taught as part of an advisory class, a health class, or an after-school program. Prentis and Parrott lecture nationwide on issues pertaining to teens and mental health in schools. They continually update and populate the Your Self Series website with relevant teen information and lesson plans for educators. They have three other products that all aim to influence children to be the best they can be while combating obesity and improving overall health and well-being: YourChatMat.com; YourStacs; and HealthyStacs.
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Preface A Child's Sense of Self Is of Paramount Concern The Focus and Purpose of This Book This Book Applies to Educators of Teens The Bottom Line About the Authors 1. The Self What You Will Learn in This Chapter What Do We Mean by the Self? The Self in School Social Emotional Learning: Its Importance and How the Self Enables SEL Potential How Does a Sense of Self Contribute to Personal Success and to Society? Steps to Success - For Teaching and for You Chapter Summary 2. The Development of the Self: Understand and Connect With the Self Behind the Desk What You Will Learn in This Chapter Early Attachment and Self Development True Self Versus False Self: The Battle Begins Making Connections Chapter Summary 3. The Unaware Emotional Self: Soften Defenses to Foster Academic and Personal Growth What You Will Learn in This Chapter The Purpose of Defenses The Development of Defenses and How They Inhibit Optimal Learning Common Defense Mechanisms and How They May Manifest in the Classroom How to Manage Defenses Through Interventions That Build the Self Chapter Summary 4. The Aware Emotional Self: Provide Tools for Emotional Management What You Will Learn in This Chapter Emotional Awareness - Knowing Your Temperature Emotional Management - Shutting the Window The Emotional Self in the Classroom The Benefits Chapter Summary 5. The Cognitive Self: Use Cognitive Understanding to Awaken Potentials What You Will Learn in This Chapter Brain Structure and Related Functions Stress on the Brain Neuroplasticity: The Role of Experiences Improving Motivation Chapter Summary 6. The Social Self: Consolidate the Self in the Social World What You Will Learn in This Chapter Set a Positive Social Tone in Your Classroom Top Social Skills Teamwork Chapter Summary 7. The Physical Self: Support the Physical Self for Optimal Overall Health What You Will Learn in This Chapter The Importance of Physical Health Exercise and Health Nutrition and Health Sleep and Health The Mind/Body Connection The Physical Self in the Classroom Chapter Summary 8. The Self in the School Climate: How to Put the Environment to Work for You What You Will Learn in This Chapter What Is School Climate? Personal Principles of Behavior School Wide Policies Parents and the Off-Campus Community Chapter Summary 9. The Self: Decision-Making, Motivation, and Giving Back What You Will Learn in This Chapter Where Are We? Where Can We Go From Here? Decision-Making - The Sine Qua Non of Self Skills Motivation Final Interventions Chapter Summary References Index
Preface A Child's Sense of Self Is of Paramount Concern The Focus and Purpose of This Book This Book Applies to Educators of Teens The Bottom Line About the Authors 1. The Self What You Will Learn in This Chapter What Do We Mean by the Self? The Self in School Social Emotional Learning: Its Importance and How the Self Enables SEL Potential How Does a Sense of Self Contribute to Personal Success and to Society? Steps to Success - For Teaching and for You Chapter Summary 2. The Development of the Self: Understand and Connect With the Self Behind the Desk What You Will Learn in This Chapter Early Attachment and Self Development True Self Versus False Self: The Battle Begins Making Connections Chapter Summary 3. The Unaware Emotional Self: Soften Defenses to Foster Academic and Personal Growth What You Will Learn in This Chapter The Purpose of Defenses The Development of Defenses and How They Inhibit Optimal Learning Common Defense Mechanisms and How They May Manifest in the Classroom How to Manage Defenses Through Interventions That Build the Self Chapter Summary 4. The Aware Emotional Self: Provide Tools for Emotional Management What You Will Learn in This Chapter Emotional Awareness - Knowing Your Temperature Emotional Management - Shutting the Window The Emotional Self in the Classroom The Benefits Chapter Summary 5. The Cognitive Self: Use Cognitive Understanding to Awaken Potentials What You Will Learn in This Chapter Brain Structure and Related Functions Stress on the Brain Neuroplasticity: The Role of Experiences Improving Motivation Chapter Summary 6. The Social Self: Consolidate the Self in the Social World What You Will Learn in This Chapter Set a Positive Social Tone in Your Classroom Top Social Skills Teamwork Chapter Summary 7. The Physical Self: Support the Physical Self for Optimal Overall Health What You Will Learn in This Chapter The Importance of Physical Health Exercise and Health Nutrition and Health Sleep and Health The Mind/Body Connection The Physical Self in the Classroom Chapter Summary 8. The Self in the School Climate: How to Put the Environment to Work for You What You Will Learn in This Chapter What Is School Climate? Personal Principles of Behavior School Wide Policies Parents and the Off-Campus Community Chapter Summary 9. The Self: Decision-Making, Motivation, and Giving Back What You Will Learn in This Chapter Where Are We? Where Can We Go From Here? Decision-Making - The Sine Qua Non of Self Skills Motivation Final Interventions Chapter Summary References Index
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