History Planner.

Newsela is a wonderful website to find resources for teaching in class, especially for secondary students.

There is now a monthly plan for daily History class planner, which includes the history of Valentine’s Day.

Aligning with our/Malaysia’s education goals and vision, I’m just wondering what can we include into our Monthly History planner (doesn’t need to be some agenda from the school’s History subject)?

English Resource

I hunt for English Resources a lot starting this year, since I became a Reading Coach.

Twinkle website has been having me as a frequent visitor. I’m also using it for my Mandarin classes.

And this is the first time I have a chance to watch a one-hour webinar for FREE and even get an e-certificate, and also many resources from it.

Try TWINKLE and see how its webinar can inspire and support you as a teacher/educator.

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Emotion & Feeling Infograph

According to the American Psychological Association (APA), EMOTION is defined as “a complex reaction pattern, involving experiential, behavioral and physiological elements.” Emotions are how individuals deal with matters or situations they find personally significant.

FEELING is “a self-contained phenomenal experience“; and feelings are “subjective, evaluative, and independent of the sensations, thoughts, or images evoking them”.

Is emotion the same as feeling? No, they are different.

We experience emotion internally first, before we can express our feelings, as a result of the emotions happening in our body, soul or mind.

So, we can be sad and feel teary, heart – wrenching or hopeless.

That is why equipping children with the vocabulary to express and describe their emotions and feelings is important as they identify and differentiate the reaction pattern their bodies are experiencing.

Only after identifying their emotions and feelings can children learn to manage or regulate their behaviour pattern in order to solve a behavioral problem in their lives.

“So friend, what is your emotion today and how do you feel?”

Coping with Children’s Challenging Behaviour

An anecdote:

“Mrs. Green leads the children in her preschool classroom in their morning song: “The more we get together, together, together, the more we get together the hap—.” She stops abruptly to run after Miles, who has left morning circle to play with the musical instruments. As Mrs. Green approaches him, Miles folds his arms across his chest, then kicks his legs and screams. Mrs. Green gently places her hand on Miles’s arm and looks him in the eye. She says, “Miles, I see that you are upset because you don’t want to sit at morning circle and want to play with the musical instruments instead. Should we take the instruments to the circle and play with them after we’ve finished our calendar activities?” Miles smiles. Mrs. Green notes his response and says, “OK. First, please sit calmly at morning circle for three minutes; then you can play with the instruments. Is that a deal?” Miles nods. Mrs. Green responds, “Give me a high-five!””

The above narration just shows how much patience a teacher must have every day to manage the situations in the classroom.

An article in NAEYC website describes 5 culturally responsive core strategies to promote positive teacher relationships with young children in preschool and minimize challenging behavior:

1. learn about children and families,
2. develop and teach expectations,
3. take the child’s perspective,
4. teach and model empathy, and
5. use group times to discuss conflict

The strategies are based on the Pyramid Model Framework (Fox & Hemmeter 2009)­—a comprehensive framework for addressing the social and emotional outcomes of young children (Hemmeter, Ostrosky, & Fox 2006).

(This brief post is written courtesy of an article published on NAEYC website, written by Charis Lauren Price, PhD and Elizabeth A. Steed, PhD)

TED TALK by a 7-year-old advocate

Research studies show that the first 5 years of a child’s life is important from optimum growth and development.

Now, listen from a 7-year-old early years development advocate about how to promote healthy life quality as early and as often as should be.

This TED talk is produced in collaboration with Mindroo Foundation for the awareness of parents, caregivers and anybody who is concern about the development of early years.

PRACTICAL LIFE – Cutting/Snipping Activity

Checklist is a great way to record the progress of a child’s activities at an interval period of time.

It is regularly used in school. I also use it to record my mum’s progress or digress. It is important to be aware of the needs of senior citizen so that lessons can be developed, in particularly with activities to strengthen the hand muscle and eye-hand coordination.

It is important to remember that we record a child or a senior citizen’s achievements, not their failure to do something.

And sometimes lessons need to be tweaked a bit to suit a certain criteria in their development.

For example, my mum can snip real well along a  given line. However she finds it difficult to stop midway as per instruction. Instead of using words to ask her to ‘STOP’, just make a large dot on the finishing line.

Take note to use black colour pencil to draw the line on a drawing paper material.

If this is helpful for your loved ones, please share in the comment space below.

#montessori #practicallife #seniorcitizen #dementia

Contest for Malaysian students (in BM)

JEMPUTAN MENYERTAI KUIZ KECEKAPAN TENAGA SEMPENA FESTIVAL TEKNOLOGI HIJAU SECARA DALAM TALIAN 2022 PERINGKAT KEBANGSAAN

Tarikh: 24 September 2022 (Sabtu)
Masa : 10.00 pagi – 11.00 pagi
Kategori Murid: Tahap 2 (Darjah 4 – 6)
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Dijemput semua untuk menyertai pertandingan di bawah kelolaan Sekolah Menengah Sains Sultan Mohamad Jiwa dengan kerjasama Unit Pembangunan Bakat Murid (Kokurikulum), Jabatan Pendidikan Negeri Kedah dan CETREE , USM..

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A reminder for Teachers/Directress.

What does LOVE mean?

A group of professionals asked a group of children aged 4-8 the above question, and the answers were deep and meaningful than one can ever imagined.

You can read more about it at https://m.dailygood.org/story/158/what-does-love-mean-see-how-4-8-year-old-kids-describe-love-ladan-lashkari/

For me, the answer to the question is in this picture.

My mum, battling with depression and not able to cook for more than two decades, helping me to stir. I only have childhood memories of her delicious food.

What is your definition of LOVE? Please share in the comment.

#montessori #love #mother #practicallife

To Co-Regulate

Tell me more if you have heard of the term “Co-Regulation”.