She said primary schools should
focus on teaching tolerance, friendship and the «importance of strong family relationships, including traditional marriage».
Through the organization's website, magazine, and films, its framework and classroom resources reach 500,000 educators.27 Because Teaching Tolerance
focuses on teaching tolerance «as a basic American value,» 28 its materials are rich in civic contexts.
Not exact matches
Under the heading, «Founders of these schools are influenced by Fethullah Gulen, a prominent Turkish Muslim scholar,» Concept says some of its founders and staff may be inspired by Gulen, whose
teachings focus on social justice,
tolerance and education.
The process
focuses on building empathy through strategies, such as conferencing, classroom discussions and peacemaking circles (
Teaching Tolerance, 2015).
Rather than
focus on poverty, language barriers, unmet special education needs and inadequate funding of public schools, the charter school proponents and Malloy apologists want students, parents, teachers and the public to believe that a pre-occupation with standardized testing, a
focus on math and English, «zero -
tolerance» disciplinary policies for students and undermining the
teaching profession will force students to «succeed» while solving society's problems.
I also utilize CBT to
focus on changing negative core beliefs and cognitive distortions and DBT to
teach distress
tolerance, emotion regulation and interpersonal assertiveness skills.
While all other modules
focus on building a life worth living, distress
tolerance skills
teach us how to avoid tearing apart our life.
DBT
teaches the person skills to cope with their emotional dysregulations, to
focus on the moment by being mindful, distress
tolerance skills and interpersonal effectiveness skills.
Specifically, the CPS approach
focuses on teaching the neurocognitive skills that challenging kids lack related to problem solving, flexibility, and frustration
tolerance.
Many other mental health treatment regimens
focus on avoiding pain, changing difficult situations, or walking away from circumstances that cause suffering, but the distress
tolerance skills
taught through DBT
focus on dealing with the pain and suffering that is inevitable to the human condition.