Chapter
News
Expanding Your Horizons
Please
bring door
prizes
for Expanding Your Horizons to the February or March meeting. Prizes
should be appropriate for junior high girls: journals, books, gift
cards ($5 or $10), hair decorations, etc. Our group is listed as a
contributor for funding and for door prizes so please help make the
door prize listing come true.
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Controlling the Weather
While teachers can have a lifelong effect on the way students think, psychologist and teacher Haim Ginott has focused on a more immediate aspect of impact: the creation of a positive or negative physical and emotional environment that can determine the quality of a child’s life.
“I’ve come to a frightening conclusion,” he said. “I am the decisive element in the classroom. My personal approach creates the climate. My daily mood makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child’s life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. It is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated, and a child humanized or dehumanized.”
From The Village Family Magazine, Feb./Mar. 2008k, vol. 12 No.1, p.6
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Book Share
World Fellowships Committee members will hold a Book Share in April. Members May bring “gently used” hardcover, paperback, children’s and miscellaneious books such as cookbooks to share. The committee will collect books at the March meeting and hold them until April or you may bring them in April.
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From Jan Flack:
"This is in regard to Lyn Nichols.
I found out that Lyn took time off from work to care for her husband who had a stoke. After a time he died. Lyn has been having some health problems and is with family in Oklahoma. Right now it is unknown when or if she will return.
Jack Sand"
While teachers can have a lifelong effect on the way students think, psychologist and teacher Haim Ginott has focused on a more immediate aspect of impact: the creation of a positive or negative physical and emotional environment that can determine the quality of a child’s life.
“I’ve come to a frightening conclusion,” he said. “I am the decisive element in the classroom. My personal approach creates the climate. My daily mood makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child’s life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. It is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated, and a child humanized or dehumanized.”
From The Village Family Magazine, Feb./Mar. 2008k, vol. 12 No.1, p.6
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Book Share
World Fellowships Committee members will hold a Book Share in April. Members May bring “gently used” hardcover, paperback, children’s and miscellaneious books such as cookbooks to share. The committee will collect books at the March meeting and hold them until April or you may bring them in April.
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From Jan Flack:
"This is in regard to Lyn Nichols.
I found out that Lyn took time off from work to care for her husband who had a stoke. After a time he died. Lyn has been having some health problems and is with family in Oklahoma. Right now it is unknown when or if she will return.
Jack Sand"
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2/22/2008
