Hello my friends! I love this book of Emma Seppala. The title is “The Happiness Track. How to apply the science of happiness to accelerate your success”. It is smart and compassionate! “The truth is that most of us are not kind to ourselves in our quest for success. We’ve been taught that to be…
The story of a blind girl
Hello my friends, I would like to share with you a story I found online which teaches us that we all have to be grateful every single day. There was a blind girl who hated herself just because she was blind. She hated everyone, except her loving boyfriend. He was always there for her. She…
Want a young child to “help” or to “be a helper”? Word Choice Matters.
My dearest friends, hello! Can a subtle linguistic cue that invokes the self motivate children to help? In two experiments, 3- to 6-year-old children (N = 149) were exposed to the idea of “being a helper” (noun condition) or “helping” (verb condition). Noun wording fosters the perception that a behavior reflects an identity-the kind of…
A Great Teacher
“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops”. H. Adams (1918)
EIGHT THINGS GREAT TEACHERS DO DIFFERENTLY
My friends, hi! I would like to share with you this great article written by Samantha Twiselton published by The Conversation. Samantha Twiselton is a Director of Sheffield Institute of Education and Professor of Education at Sheffield Hallam University. The ten shortlisted teachers from across the globe were announced in a video from Bill Gates…
