Top CEO Says Value People

Jim Parker, former CEO of Southwest Airlines, is interviewed by Dan Rockwell, a leadership consultant.  Southwest really outperformed. Why? The CEO had different ideas than most did at that time. Check them out:

http://leadershipfreak.wordpress.com/2011/03/02/jim-parker-on-life-and-leadership/

People are important.

What goes around comes around.

Follow your heart.

Yes, you have heard them.  Maybe my clients actually do them. Hope this helps brighten your day.

Approved by Registry in All Areas

We finally got it all through. Approved by the Registry in the last areas. Now we can claim to be a full service shop. All topics of training available. Woohoo! Remember, also, consulting for directors as a super low cost. And a variety of assessments for your students — even norm based. Nothing like it!

Sensory Integration Disorder

Here is a great introduction to a disorder that seems to be new. What is going on when a child is acting… unsual … consistently. Do you have a child who just freaks out over the loud fire alarm? A child for whom certain normal touch sensations just won’t work — like it is too hard to wear socks? Or who just can’t do normal things even though they seem to want to? Here is an article that should help:

http://montessoritraining.blogspot.com/2010/04/montessori-education-sensory-processing.html

Presidents’ Day

What are you doing for Presidents’ Day? How can you extend it?
How about learning about the childhood of a president? How he came to the presidency? How he faced the challenges of office?
Mmemorizing the names of presidents can be extremely useful. A four year old will find this to be a game. Later in life, he will be able to hook new information about history into the chain of presidents and so make everything more meaningful. Today, when students do not memorize dates, sometimes they can not place whether the Vietnam War was before World War I or not. Then how can she know how the Tea Pot Dome figures in (maybe a topic for high school). Or what might be a good oil policy today ( maybe a topic for college.) So what seemed to be a game of memorizing presidents in preschool can really be a foundation for the rest of life.

Teaching Values in the Preschool Classroom

What values do you teach your children? Some peole teach rights. Some model rebellion. Most believe in altruism. Are we teaching that? Traditionally duty was taught, but today our culture seldom mentions that.

I submit that if we teach only rights and never duty or altruism, we may have an unpleasant culture not many years hence.

Anyone have good ideas for teaching altruism?

What values are most important to teach?

You are teaching impressionable chidlren. What is most important to teach? What values are your teaching? Basically rights? Or duty and altruism?

What do you teach? How do you teach it? What does this relfection bring to you?

Resources for teachers

Deborah J. Stewart helpfully passes on good resources for preschool teachers. Here is a a great one:

Teach_Preschool Early Childhood
30 more blogs about play, creativity, nature and family http://bit.ly/gGpx9I #ece #preschool #teachpreschool

 

Here is another:

preschoolers Education.com
Preschool activity of the day: Blast Off with a Homemade Rocket Ship! bit.ly/nwYBRD

 

And another for February for Black History Month, from the Montessori realm:
teachmontessori NAMC
Here is another previous NAMC blog to give you more information and ideas regarding Black History Month (February). fb.me/zrZKEbuE

 

Teaching Algebra, Geometry with Montessori Materials

Daniel Jutras, Ph.D. shows how to use Montessori materials like the pink tower (and of course the trinomial cube) to teach many things including Pythagorean Theorem, geometry, basic algebra and of coure the trinomial equation. Free. Thanks, Dr. Jutras! and Thaks to Swan Mai for passing it along!

http://www.mepiforum.org/images/conferences/2007/myrtlebeach/Daniel%20Jutras%20Handout_2007.pdf

Crafty Christmas Lunch

Here is a super cute Christmas lunch with an elf theme. I hope you like it. (I’m not for “Elf Days” ; I have Christmas, but I thought this was cute.

http://www.meetthedubiens.com/2011/12/fun-food-friday-santas-little-elf.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Geen dye naturally

WOW! Here is a creative discussion on how to make green dye from edible substances.

http://www.mothering.com/community/t/1338115/natural-green-dye-anyone