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Why We Teach: Beyond High Stakes Testing and Extensive Achievement Standards During these days of high-stakes testing and extensive emphasis on achievement standards, how can we remember and remain committed to the higher calling that teaching offers? The deepest understanding of what it means to teach is that each day unfolds illuminating both opportunities and responsibilities to participate in the grand revelation of human potential. Remembering this serves to inspire, enthuse and motivate those work with children in ways that no testing ever can. Nurturing the Teacher: Finding Peace and Joy Through a Well-Tended Inner Life Non-religious in nature, participants will explore ways to feel whole, balanced, and centered as they move through the school year. Spiritual health includes experiences in stillness and silence, mindful living, gratitude, forgiveness and compassion and finding meaning and purpose in each day. Building Supportive School Communities: How We Work Together Whenever we gather to share information, discuss issues, and communicate ideas, we have an opportunity to engage in deep listening, authentic affirming of others, and non-judgmental communications. You don’t need a formal program or step-by-step procedures to build caring, respectful school communities if you integrate these simple, but powerful ideas and strategies for transforming how we communicate with others in the hallways and in organizational meetings. Teaching For Peace: Cultivating Inner Peace Examine activities and experiences that cultivate inner peace by evoking an awareness of the inner self, cultivating stillness & silence, concentration & attention, mindfulness, and gratitude. Teaching For Peace: Fostering Peace in a Classroom Community Explore activities for building caring, compassionate relationships through community building using goodness seeking & affirmation of others, celebration & ceremony, compassion, forgiveness, respectful language, and conflict resolution. Peace Club During this hands-on in-service Ms. Haskins will work with you to plan activities resulting in loads of ideas and activities to inspire teachers and children alike. |
Traditional Elementary Education Keynote, Workshop, and In-Service Opportunities |
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