Haim Ginott (1972): Between Teacher and CHild

I have come to a frightening conclusion:

I am the decisive element in the classroom.

It is my personal approach that creates the climate.

It is my daily mood that makes the weather.

As a teacher, I possess tremendous power to make a child's life miserable or joyous.

I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration.

I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal.

In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated, and a child humanized or dehumanized.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Friendships and Social Relationships

The book in previous post is really a practical book.
lots of love!

Some useful resources to help children develop friendships:

Brown and colleagues (2008) offered a wealth of addtional information supporting the need for social relationships and developing friendships.
Brown, W. H., Odom, S. L. & McConnell, S. R. (2008). Social competence of young children: Risk, disability and intervention. Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co.

Vaughn and colleagues (2003) conducted a research synthesis that reviewed 23 social skills interventions that were most effective across disabilities.
Vaughn, S., Lim, A., Morris Sloan, C., Hughes, M., Elbaum, B., & Sridhar, D. (2003). Social skills interventions for young children with disabilities. Remedial and Special Education, 24(1), 2-15.

The Center on Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning provides additional resources on interventions that work.
http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/

Hanson and Beckman (2001) described strategies that parents can use to help their children make friends.
Hanson, M. J., & Beckman, P. J. (2001). Me, too! (Vols 1-6). Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co,

A book I must buy or borrow!