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Oops! Even Teachers Make Mistakes
By Otis Kriegel, author of Everything a New Elementary School Teacher REALLY Needs to Know (But Didn’t Learn in College) You did it. You made a mistake. Teachers are surprisingly human. We are not perfect. Of course we make mistakes. … Continue reading
Perfectionism and Depression in Gifted Kids
By Myles Cooley, Ph.D., author of A Practical Guide to Mental Health & Learning Disorders for Every Educator: How to Recognize, Understand, and Help Challenged (and Challenging) Students Succeed (Revised & Updated Edition) Childhood depression has multiple causes. Genetics play … Continue reading
5 Ways to Help Children with Perfectionism Find Balance
By Barbara Gruener Part of our Counselor’s Corner series. Click to read other posts in the Counselor’s Corner. In my practice as a school counselor, I routinely ask students to rate their reactions to an experience using a scale from … Continue reading
Posted in Counselor's Corner, Parenting, Social & Emotional Learning
Tagged feelings, mistakes, perfectionism, resilience
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What I Learned from My Biggest Classroom Mistake
Everyone makes mistakes. As painful as they may be at first, mistakes give us the opportunity to learn from experience and do better next time. That’s how we improve at our craft. We also learn from the shared wisdom of … Continue reading
Posted in Teaching Strategies
Tagged classroom management, Free Spirit Advisory Board, mistakes
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