Good Morning Tigers: Recent Episodes
Taylor Robinson
In this lesson, you will develop an understanding of the importance of diversity in a community.
Book: It's Okay to be Different by Todd Parr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt7grN0mbDI
Self-talk is a developmentally appropriate strategy you can use to help yourself listen, follow directions, and stay on task. Over time, self-talk typically becomes internalized and no longer spoken out loud. However, whether out loud or silent, it can be a powerful tool to help you remember directions and focus.
Planning is a critical part of developing your executive functioning. This lesson helps you build planning skills by introducing problem-solving challenges that require more complicated solutions. The ability to think through and plan a good approach to handling a challenge helps students cope with interpersonal problems. Planning skills are also important for coping with academic challenges.
To begin to evaluate possible actions you could take in a social situation, you need to be able to predict how others might feel as a result of each action.
It is important for students to learn the differences between assertive, aggressive, and passive ways of communicating. Much of the violence that plagues schools begins with aggressive interactions. Aggressive communication causes problems with other students, school staff, and adults in the community. Students can reduce their involvement in aggressive and violent behaviors by using assertive communication skills to stand up for themselves and get a point across without disrespecting others.
Learning to be assertive also has value for students being bullied or otherwise mistreated by peers. These students can use assertiveness as a tool to stand up for their rights. Finally, students need assertiveness skills to get help in school and to communicate respectfully with adults across a variety of situations.
Knowing how to ask for help is an important skill for learning. Sometimes you get nervous or are too shy to ask for help. The ability to communicate assertively not only contributes to academic success but is also important for solving problems and standing up for oneself or others. Assertiveness skills can help you relate well with peers.
In this lesson, you will use and apply some of the listening and attention skills you have learned. Focusing on the importance and usefulness of the skills increases your motivation to use them.
Self-instruction, or self-talk, is an important skill for learning that you can use to stay focused, stay on task, and ignore distractions, Self-Talk can also help you manage your emotions so you can make better decisions in stressful situations.
To succeed in school, you need to be able to ignore distractions while focusing their attention. This is an important skill for learning that helps you pay attention to what is important in the classroom and to your peers.
Empathy and respect are fundamental approaches to being a great student. Empathy means feeling or understanding what someone else is feeling. It's important to be respectful towards others because it shows you care, it helps you make new friends, and you can work better with people. When you respect others' ideas, you're responding to them in a caring way. You are showing empathy!
Today you learned about important skills for learning: our eyes are looking, ears are listening, voices are quiet, and bodies are still. When we use our eyes, ears, and brain to focus on the speaker and think about what they are saying, you become a better learner. Focusing attention and listening also show respect-and everyone deserves to be treated with respect.