Strategically incorporating structured and unstructured play into your lessons can help foster resilience and accelerate learning recovery.
Somehow, knowing others have found a pathway of healing and resilience after disaster gives me the energy I need to rise out of these current circumstances and forge forward with our students in my wake, carried on by the force of my will and a toolkit of good evidence-based strategies.
The Responsive Classroom approach reaches far beyond the old perception of social and emotional curriculums producing “nice” kids in a warm and fuzzy environment. It allows us to build intelligent guidelines for school and to develop classroom practices that are informed by current neuroscience and are relevant to the children of the 21st Century.
When parents provide answers or too many hints via leading questions, it does not help your child achieve the primary goal: learning how to think and learn.