Strong Spirits, Kind Hearts
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Strong Spirits, Kind Hearts

Helping Students Develop Inner Strength, Resilience, and Meaning

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eBook - ePub

Strong Spirits, Kind Hearts

Helping Students Develop Inner Strength, Resilience, and Meaning

About this book

Strong Spirits, Kind Hearts is the first practical teacher resource to provide comprehensive coverage of all aspects of developing strong spirits and caring young people. It is focused on middle years' students but most lessons can be adapted for older and younger students as well. This resource describes ways to incorporate emotional and spiritual supports into daily routines and interactions with students and provides ready-to-use activities, lessons and units that can be integrated into subject area teaching. This book helps teachers to:
understand the importance of strengthening students' spirits and how this support improves students' learning and classroom moralebuild resilience and hope through their interactions with students distinguish between the development of strong spirits and religious educationuse approaches that are respectful of religious and spiritual diversity as well as more secular viewsimplement a wealth of strategies, lessons, and units that develop students' compassion and sense of connection to others and the natural worldintegrate a focus on meaning and purpose within subject area lessons.

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Yes, you can access Strong Spirits, Kind Hearts by Sandra Finney in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Education & Education Curricula. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
R&L Education
Year
2013
eBook ISBN
9781475802115
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Part I: The Classroom World
  5. Chapter 1: It Starts with Me
  6. Chapter 2: The Classroom Community
  7. Chapter 3: Strengthening Bonds between Class Members
  8. Part II: The Inner World
  9. Chapter 4: Building Resilience and Inner Strength
  10. Chapter 5: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
  11. Chapter 6: A Meaningful Life
  12. Chapter 7: Spirit Matters
  13. Part III: The Natural World
  14. Chapter 8: A Breath of Fresh Air
  15. Chapter 9: The Ten Thousand Things
  16. Chapter 10: The Tree of Life
  17. Part IV: One World
  18. Chapter 11: We Are All One
  19. Chapter 12: Good People of the World
  20. Terms Used
  21. Appendix A: Ways to Help Parents and Administrators Understand a Focus on the Student’s Spirit
  22. Appendix B: Principles of a Restorative Approach to Classroom and School Discipline
  23. References
  24. About the Author