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Earthside Education: Bringing the Body to Balance
Earthside Education: Bringing the Body to Balance. Friday, September 3, 2010. USEFUL TEACHING IDEAS FOR TEACHERS AND PARENTS. Bringing the Body to Balance. We need to know where our centre is before we can really start to learn. Balance is required before learning can begin. A lack of balance can be exhibited in many ways; the child who swings on her chair, or who cannot sit still; the one who keeps touching his head; the child whose behaviour is markedly different at school compared to that at home.
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Earthside Education: Index
Tuesday, August 31, 2010. USEFUL TEACHING IDEAS FOR TEACHERS AND PARENTS. Seminars, Workshops, Classes and Advice. Http:/ www.earthsideeducation.com/. Earthside.education[at]westnet.com.au. Sean is the author of Lighting the Literacy Fire: Creative Ideas for Teachers and Parents. 1 Get a Grip: Starting the Day with a Handshake. 3 Teach Something Meaningless. 4 Exercise not Esteem. 5 The Teacher as a Sower of Seeds. 6 The Teaching Relationships. 7 There’s No Rush to Read. 9 Writing Verses for Your Class.
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Earthside Education: Emotional Intelligence
Earthside Education: Emotional Intelligence. Tuesday, September 7, 2010. USEFUL TEACHING IDEAS FOR TEACHERS AND PARENTS. Can we teach our students to become sensitive to their own feelings? We have an inner sense of equilibrium. It is easy to upset this inner balance. If we hold our breath, the imbalance becomes uncomfortable, then painful…. Within the pulse of life is pain. Where bodies sway and right again. We often minimise children’s experiences of this inner sense. When they feel unwell, w...Bill an...
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Earthside Education: Exercise Not Esteem
Earthside Education: Exercise Not Esteem. Sunday, August 22, 2010. USEFUL TEACHING IDEAS FOR TEACHERS AND PARENTS. The young child is impressed with what she can do, not what she can think. Young children generally know things, however, through their experiences, rather than through reading about them, or being told. All people are like this, but the young are less able to reason, and thus more reliant upon what they actually see, and hear, and do, for what they know. 3 Teach Something Meaningless. 6 The...
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Earthside Education: First Contact
Earthside Education: First Contact. Monday, August 30, 2010. USEFUL TEACHING IDEAS FOR TEACHERS AND PARENTS. The Sense of Touch is underestimated as a factor in education. Children, allowed to play with natural materials, will generally develop a normal and ‘sufficient’ sense of touch. A child who spends too many hours merely watching television may not. Seminars, Workshops, Classes and Advice. Http:/ www.earthsideeducation.com/. Earthside.education[at]westnet.com.au. Sean is the author of Lighting the L...
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Earthside Education: Get a Grip
Earthside Education: Get a Grip. Thursday, August 19, 2010. USEFUL TEACHING IDEAS FOR TEACHERS AND PARENTS. Get a Grip: Greeting Your Students. One common and rewarding way to start the school day, or any specialist class, is with a handshake. Shaking hands is a social skill that is required in western countries. The way we greet people is important, as first impressions are lasting. Moreover, starting with a handshake is an acknowledgement of the other, a mark of respect. 8226; Eye contact. From the age...
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Earthside Education: Integrated Learning
Earthside Education: Integrated Learning. Saturday, August 21, 2010. USEFUL TEACHING IDEAS FOR TEACHERS AND PARENTS. Integrated Learning: Putting it all Together. Yes, it takes time and effort to teach in an integrated way, but the benefits far outweigh the costs. Is not difficult to achieve if the school’s organisational structures support it. One way is to allow teachers to take classes for more than one year, either consecutively or otherwise. Can be enhanced through the recognition by teachers that l...
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Earthside Education: Memorable Experiences
Earthside Education: Memorable Experiences. Monday, August 30, 2010. USEFUL TEACHING IDEAS FOR TEACHERS AND PARENTS. A Succession of Memorable Experiences. How much of that which we teach our students is going to be remembered? When we cast our minds back to our own primary schooling, we remember the events or experiences that were unusual, exciting or troublesome. The camps, excursions, plays and sports meetings are all so much more memorable than any drab lessons on nouns, tense or spelling. If we are ...
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Earthside Education: There's No Rush to Read
Earthside Education: There's No Rush to Read. Saturday, August 28, 2010. USEFUL TEACHING IDEAS FOR TEACHERS AND PARENTS. There’s No Rush to Read. There is no reason to want children to read as early as possible. There is a range of ages within which children now normally learn to read. An abnormal or different learning journey does not imply, or cause, a defective intellect or psychology. Many brilliant scientists and writers had abnormal learning journeys;. 8230;Albert Einstein was a slow-thinking child...
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Earthside Education: Teacher as Sower of Seeds
Earthside Education: Teacher as Sower of Seeds. Friday, August 27, 2010. USEFUL TEACHING IDEAS FOR TEACHERS AND PARENTS. The Teacher as a Sower of Seeds. Teachers do not fill students up with skills as if they are empty buckets. They simply plant a seed. Not the leaves nor branch nor trunk. Not the twig or bark or fruit. Before and after all of these. Viewing the teacher’s primary role as one of planting seeds requires an about-face in the way we view education and schools. It will require us t...Sean is...
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Earthside Education: Teach Something Meaningless
Earthside Education: Teach Something Meaningless. Friday, August 20, 2010. USEFUL TEACHING IDEAS FOR TEACHERS AND PARENTS. When Was the Last Time You Taught Some Really Good Nonsense to Your Class? Letters and phonemes need to be combined in order to make word-meanings. As teachers we tend to want to teach these two skills at the same time, (1)the combining of sounds and (2)the meaningful words or sentences they combine to make. Silly scorpions ski incessantly. 8230;All mimsy were the borogoves. Some tea...
