Not exact matches
Reading The
Whole - Brain
Child may help our own
awareness — or Mindsight — grow along with that of our
children.
Claire Penn is a
Child and Family Therapist who is passionate about helping people strengthen their relationships and expand their insight and self -
awareness in order to lead healthy,
whole and harmonious lives.
Regardless of what they or their parents choose for
children to eat during the school day, it's important to me that all
children develop an
awareness of
whole food nutrition and begin making connections between the earth and their bodies.
By schools making appropriate allowances for
children affected by parental deployment,
whole school
awareness was increased and helped the affected students to cope.
Some
children diagnosed with dyslexia read words as a
whole and guess at internal detail, showing major problems with phonological
awareness.
These include teaching
children to spell their name in British Sign Language, deaf
awareness tips, lip - reading games, and instructions on how to sign a
whole song.
A central goal of the Colorado Achievement Plan for Kids (CAP4K) is to support the needs of the
whole child, which includes social and emotional competencies such as 21st century skills, critical - thinking, problem - solving, communication, collaboration, social and cultural
awareness, initiative, self - direction, and character.
Again, using a
whole -
child approach, middle schools have for generations ensured that students experience encores or specials that expose them to technology, family and consumer sciences, art, music, health, and other coursework that increases their
awareness of academic fields of study and potential career options.
The
Whole Child,
Whole Person Summit will raise
awareness for the need for education systems and schools to use a different methodology that expands the definition of academic achievement beyond content mastery and test scores.
This year's theme is «Moving from Implementation to Sustainability to Culture,» and focuses on highlighting the great work of ASCD - associated schools, providing a forum in which educators who implement the
whole child approach to education can learn from one another and presenters, and expanding
awareness of a
whole child approach to educators worldwide.
With initiatives like the ASCD Emerging Leaders program, Teach to Lead, the ASCD Student Growth Center, and the
Whole Child for the
Whole World program, ASCD is cultivating the education leaders of tomorrow and broadening its advocacy efforts to promote
awareness of and support for the comprehensive needs of students.
These efforts to make
whole child education a state priority, raise
awareness among multiple stakeholders about the benefits of a
whole child approach, and provide a foundation for further action are good first steps, but there is more to be done.
Additionally, the conference expands
awareness of ASCD's
Whole Child Initiative to educators outside North America.
• Increase
awareness of physical and emotional reactions instantly • Turn off your fight or flight response • Give you a feeling of power over your emotions and reactions • Increased your overall sense of well being in literally 2 - 3 minutes • Decrease negative, destructive reactions to our
children • Teach and Discipline your
children more effectively • Build stronger relationships with your kids • Upgrade yourself and model strong emotional regulation skills for your kids • Make you and your family a
whole lot happier What are you waiting for?
Additionally, the conference expands
awareness of ASCD's
Whole Child Initiative to educators outside North America.
Phonological
Awareness calls
children to listen to the sounds of our language from a
whole word or sentence, down to the individual letter sounds in a word.