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Ensuring Social and Emotional well-being
Ensuring Social and Emotional Well-being Schools are an ideal setting to support the social and emotional well-being of students and offer resources and opportunities to build resilience. When schools support social and emotional well-being, students typically have fewer disciplinary issues, can focus more on school work, and can [...]
Building and Maintaining Resilience Despite the Odds
Building and Maintaining Resilience Despite the Odds Schools are places where we bring our whole selves — our life experiences, cultural backgrounds, challenges and trauma, and hopes and aspirations — into interaction with the world. But often, the experiences we encounter in school environments can become sources of [...]
How Should Teachers Prepare for Online Education?
Teaching remotely is still a relatively novel concept and it takes time to adjust for those who’ve never done it before. Taking the current pandemic into account, online teaching has become a must, because of all the restrictions that make it impossible for classes to be taught live. Thus, [...]
How Can Parents Help their Children to Navigate Online Classes?
Making distance learning work requires balance, patience, and flexibility. If the current pandemic should return in a second wave, thus forcing authorities to impose certain restrictions, such as online classes for all school children, the below expert advice from educators will assist you as parents to guide your children [...]
How to Keep Your Child Engaged and in Learning Beyond School Classes
The current pandemic has upended family life around the world. School closures, working remotely, physical distancing — it’s a lot to navigate for parents. Moreover, online classes, while effective, cannot replace 100% of the physical interactions between students and teachers in a regular setting, which is why experts recommend [...]
What shall we do when feelings overwhelm us? A step by step process
Sometimes adults have difficulties in understanding and helping children with handling their emotions. The younger children are, the more difficult it is for them to name a feeling, to accept it and to find strategies to cope with it. As adults, we can help them through this [...]
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