Both parents and teachers believe it is important for children to be kind, but they define kindness in different ways, according to a recent survey of 2,000 parents and 500 teachers from the Sesame Workshop, the educational nonprofit behind Sesame Street. Parents tended to choose polite manners as being more important in showing kindness, whereas teachers placed a higher value on empathy.
A letter to teachers from “that kid.” (2015, August 27). Retrieved March 3, 2017, from We Are Teachers
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- Why Poverty Matters
- Poverty Data Sources
- Neuroscience & the Classroom
- Why Resources Matter
- 1 – Build Relationships
- 2 – Decrease Stress
- 3 – Increase Status
- 4 – Increase Hope
- 5 – Proactively Guide
- 6 – Use “Me” Strategies
- 7 – Understand Goals of Misbehavior
- 8 – Decrease Health Impacts
- 9 – Build Family/Community Partnerships
- 10 – Align Instruction & Assessment
- 11 – Motivate
- 12 – Grow Mindsets
- 13 – Build Background Knowledge
- 14 – Grow Executive Function
- 15 – Build Memory Trace
- 16 – Grow Emotional & Soft Skills
- 17 – Purposefully Teach
- 18 – Explicitly Teach
- 19 – Question Strategically
- 20 – Use Data
- 21 – Make Learning Fun
- 22 – Accommodate
- 23 – Infuse the Arts
- 24 – Maintain High Expectations
- 25 – Lead