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1. Six books containing aspects of caring.
1> “Teaching Children to Love”
From: herzog (Stephanie)
Reply-to: herzog
To: comments
Hi,
Someone there wrote wanting information on the book, Teaching Children
to
Love. I did not find a name or email address on the request so am
sorry I
can't write to you personally. Please call me and I can share with
about the book and about what we do. You can reach me at .
I have looked a bit at your website which did come with the message
we received and enjoyed what I saw.
Sincerely,
Stephanie Herzog
Assistant Director of Ed for HeartMath® LLC
herzog
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2> 'A Present for Toot' ... regarding manners
Thank you letters seem to be becoming a lost art, so my idea is
to read 'A Present for Toot' by Holly Hobbie with the class. Then
we will discuss getting gifts and how we should say thank you. The
final activity will be to pretend we are Toot and write a thank
you to Puddle for the gift. In this lesson we will cover good manners
and how to write a friendly letter.
J Tully-Doyle
Painted Rock
San Diego, CA
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3> Invitational Education
This came to us ...
The latest issue of the Journal has been published to our website
at:
http://www.invitationaleducation.net/publications/journal/
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4> Regarding a book on character
From: jenna
(Jenna.DeMare)
To: comments
To whom it may concern-
I was looking through your site and I was wondering how you chose
your
links? Would you be willing to put a link of our company on your
site?
www.topicseducation.com Our company, Topics Education Group, has
just published a book on character education, we have national educational
publication, and we create customized teaching materials.
Please check our site and let me know.
Jenna DeMare
Marketing Specialist
Topics Education Group
http://www.topicseducation.com
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5> The Caring Teacher's Guide to Discipline by Marilyn Gootman
Some background information on Dr. Marilyn Gootman - author and
speaker.
Speaking/Consultation Areas: Helping grieving teens heal, loving
parents' discipline, caring teacher discipline, solving trauma-related
discipline problems, defusing student anger, reaching and teaching
abused children, conflict resolution, and parents and teachers:
partners in discipline
Dr. Marilyn Gootman is a speaker and author who focuses on the rights
and needs of children. She is a member of the faculty in the Department
of Elementary Education at the University of Georgia and a former
elementary teacher.
Dr. Gootman has taken her passion for children into many settings
from the local classroom to guest appearances on radio and television.
She is the author of several books which include When a Friend Dies,
The Loving Parent's Guide to Discipline, A Book for Teens About
Grieving & Healing, and her latest book, The Caring Teacher's
Guide to Discipline.
The book is organized with a wide variety of useful chapter topics
such as creating a community of caring listeners and talkers, harnessing
and channeling anger into constructive outlets, what to do to alter
misbehavior, etc. A useful feature of each chapter is a summary
of main points.
Dr. Gootman can be reached through -
Teacher's Workshop
1250 Overlook Ridge
Bishop, GA 30621
Call:
Fax:
Email us at: rbender
http://www.teachersworkshop.com/twshop/gootman.html
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6> “Students Don’t “Work” -- They Learn
- by Alfie Kohn
Someone told us of an article by Alfie Kohn that appears in the
Teachers.net gazette that encourages teachers to look up and treat
students as learners and not workers ... the article is called “Students
Don’t “Work” -- They Learn.
Here is an excerpt and a link
Excerpt ...
To get a sense of whether students view themselves as workers or
as learners, we need only ask them (during class) what they are
doing. "I'm doing my work" is one possible response; "I'm
trying to figure out why the character in this story told her friend
to go away" is something else altogether. Better yet, we might
ask students why they are doing something, and then attend to the
difference between "Because Ms. Taylor told us to" or
"It's going to be on the test," on the one hand, and "Because
I just don't get why this character would say that!" on the
other.
<http://teachers.net/gazette/DEC00/kohn.html>
© 1997 by Alfie Kohn. Reprinted from Education Week
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2. Books that help at time of tragedy (October 2001)
This was sent to me by Nan Phifer,
The following suggestions came to me through the Oregon
Writing Project, a program for teachers, at the U. of O. Maybe it
contains something you could adapt for your newsletter. It was
assembled by a poet who lives in Eugene, Ingrid Wendt.
>
>Friends,
>
>Helen Frost, a poet-friend of mine who conducts school residencies
in
>Indiana, has sent a copy of a handout she is giving to a teacher
inservice
>group this week. I hope you will find it useful.
>
>Yours in the search for words,
>Ingrid Wendt
>
>
>Helping Children and Young People Make Sense of Current Events
>
> Resource List Compiled by Helen Frost
>
>Website:
>
>Connect for Kids
>Resources for parents, teachers and community members:
>http://www.connectforkids.org/usr_doc/CopingWithGrief.htm
>
>Books
>
>Note: I strongly recommend reading whatever books you love
best, rather
>than focusing too much on books "about" trauma, loss,
and tragedy. Reading
>together can make you feel safe, can make you laugh, can help
you establish
>a routine. Having said that, here are some resources to help
you find books
>that might be especially well-received in the wake of recent
events:
>
>Children's Book Council
>Books on Trauma, Tragedy, and Loss
>http://www.cbcbooks.org/html/cbc_booklist.html
>
>Some additional book suggestions, including books set in the
Middle East:
>
>Books by Naomi Shihab Nye:
>Habibi (middle grade novel)
>What Have You Lost? (poetry anthology)
>This Same Sky (international poetry anthology)
>Salting The Ocean(anthology of poems by children)
>
>Books by Elsa Marston:
>Cynthia And The Runaway Gazebo
>A Griffin In The Garden
>The Cliffs Of Cairo
>
>Book by Sharon Creech:
>Love That Dog
>
>Books suggested by others, which I have not yet read:
>
>Florence Perry Heide, Judith Heide Gilliland, and Ted Lewin's
pair of books:
>Sami And The Time Of Troubles
>The Day Of Ahmed's Secret
>
>Michelle Lemieux
>Stormy Night
>
>(see other suggestion in appendix of my book, When I Whisper,
Nobody Listens)
> Words of Comfort and Encouragement along with some suggestions
for using
>them in a writing classroom
>It has been said that to one who is good, the whole world becomes
good. This
>is true so far as the individual is concerned. But goodness
becomes dynamic
>only when it is practiced in the face of evil. If you return
good for good
>only, it is a bargain and carries no merit, but if you return
good for evil,
>it becomes a redeeming force. The evil ceases before it and
it goes on
>gathering volume and momentum like a snow-ball till it becomes
>irresistible.
>
> Mahatma Gandhi
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