Mora+Claudia

Biography My name is Claudia Mora I am Colombian and have been teaching at an international school in Bogota for 10 years I have a master’s degree in Neuropsychology. I work with children with learning differences from K to 7th grade. Even though I am passionate about the brain and how it works I have found that education fascinates me because it is a key element to promote neuroplasticity. Besides my job I love being with my family, read and dance. That is why I´m pursuing this degree in education.

For the past ten years I have seen an enormous shift in education, or at least in my practice. Ten years ago I was focused in delivering content to my students. I was not worried about developing communication skills, social problem solving or in teaching values like compassion empathy etc. Now days content is as far as cell phone and the fact that family dynamics have changed dramatically made my priorities with my student have change. Another factor that have influenced my practice are the 21st century skills that we as teachers from this century have to take in consideration in order to educate students for a successful life (Critical Thinking and Problem Solving, Creative Thinking Skills, Communication Skills, Collaboration Skills and Curiosity) If we take a close look in these skills 2 of them have to do with skills that involve assertive communication, empathy with others, respect and tolerance and I have seen that these values have to be taught explicitly. Research have shown that learning is only possible if students feel they are in a safe environment and I am in charge of creating that! I have tried to implement different programs that my school have adoptees like Restorative Practices or Conscious discipline, but what I have experience is that this programs do not teach students how to deal with stress, or how to be assertive when communication. These programs solve the student´s problem in an extrinsic way and every year my school changes the program. For all this I decided to take this course would help in come up with different strategies to create a peaceable environment and help to teach my students how to resolve the different social difficulties they have to face daily.
 * Assignment # 1 **

1. How to create peaceable / safe environments (components)  2. Implementation  3. Conflict resolution strategies  4. How to promote problem solving in a school that have students with severe learning/emotional differences  5. Learn how to prevent/identify factors that can cause conflict

**Assignment 2**

“//Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them”.// // James Baldwin //

I wanted to start my journal entry with that quote because I think that it has to do with the topic I want to discuss in this entry: “Being a Role model”. I watched the movie with my boyfriend and a friend (both have nothing to do with education) and the highlight of the discussion was the importance an impeccable role model during childhood and adolescent years.The three of us discuss that our values and believes were determine by our families, religious community and some teachers. We were born in a community that taught us to respect and tolerate every single living thing and accept them as they are because they are our brothers and sisters. Now as adults we repeat those teachings to our children trying to be a good role model for them. Nowadays, we claim ourselves to be open minded, we think that we are not racist and that we accept people no matter their religion or sexual orientation and we brag about our flexibility. But I have to say that most of the times these are just empty words. A few days ago a heard one of my friends saying this: “Laura, (her niece) how come you like Carlos ? he is “negrito” (black) another day I was talking with my nephew (15 years old) and he told that one of his friends like to dress up all the time, my brother in law immediately jumped in the conversation and started to laugh saying to my nephew his is a sissy stop hanging out with him or everyone will think you are a sissy too.

When I think about these comments I think they are as tough as what Derek´s dad said about the black people. What is worst is that my friend and my brother in law have no clue in the emotional repercussion these affirmations are going to have in these children. Young people are like clay you will shape their character, personality and values with your words, attitude and above all ACTIONS. It is awful to admit…. but our society discriminates a lot

Another aspect of the movie that called our attention was the fact that it showed the power of a teacher. The movie exposed the two sides of the coin. The teacher that believes fights and inspires his students and on the other hand the teacher that manipulates and want veneration and submission. This part made me think a lot about the power in my classroom I am shaping their brains and their souls and I have to become what I want them to be. I can’t ask them to do something I can’t …… the change begins in me….. I change first then I will ask them to change….

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">As in the movie I want to finish this entry with this quote.

<span style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">“I’ve come to a frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It’s my personal approach that creates the climate. It’s my daily mood that 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 heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or dehumanized.” (H. Ginnot)

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">A peaceable school is safe and tolerant learning environment were differences or difficult situations are solved in a non-coercive way through conflict resolution strategies like mediation, negotiation and group conflict solving. In this environments responsibility and cooperation are key elements for success. Teachers empower students to assume the fact that accurate behavior is their responsibility. Students begin to take decisions towards their right and duties. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Communication is a key element in peaceable school I think that the most important element is being and active listener ((Baum, Nichols) meaning.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Assignment #3 **


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">1. Seek to understand before you seek to be understood.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">2. Be non judgmental
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">3. Give your undivided attention to the speaker
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">4. Use silence effectively

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">And also being able to send the message accurately and explicitly using the I message technique (Baum and Nichols ) Behavior, consequence, feeling .Arias (2005) stated that “There is no doubt in my mind whatsoever that establishing clear meaning and communicating it effectively is the most important tool for peace.”

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">If Hanks gets is my class he will observe a classroom were students feel safe. We will have specific time where I teach values and conflict resolution strategies student are aware what conflict means and how they can deal with it. He will see little pre k students being active listeners and learning to deliver messages. He will hear things like, “when you pushed me, I fell, and I felt bad” he can see one little kid drawing in a notepad something kind that other kid did because in my classroom Kindness counts and at the end of the day we Share all the moments were students caught each other being kind. Hank will also see my students trying to negotiate, he will see them trying to find a common ground in activities like “how are we alike” “how are we different” “what can we do together tha we both like ” he can also get in my class and see 21 students with heart shaped sunglasses because We are wearing our “loving glasses” to see what we like about our school family (my class).

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">I think I promote peace in my classroom when I model specific behaviors that are associated with peacemaking like praising diversity, being an active listener, respecting their perception ,value their ideas and negotiate with them.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Assignment #4 **

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">What do I think about using torture or other “enhaced methods”

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">As soon as I hear the word torture, I think about holocaust, suffering, dictatorships, acts of extreme violence against humans, fear, and pain. My question is why in a world where we know better, where everyone claims to be “evolved” torture or other “enhanced methods are still used, and accepted in some cases. For me torture in just IRRATIONAL.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">With my partner we discussed what is it and how people torture others in our working places. Torture is defined by UN Convention against Torture (CAT), as any act that consists of the intentional infliction of ‘‘severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental’’, involving a public official and carried out for a specific purpose.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">The first thing we discovered based on the definition mention above was that in both of our workplaces Multinational (his) and Colegio Nueva Granada (mine) a form of torture is present and is bullying. My partner said that he has seen some cases where a boss a torture one specific person or a group of coworkers torture another one. He told me a story where the region manager torture one person with the help of an “inner cycle” extending the “torture tactics” to all the work scenarios where this person had to perform causing him serious psychological damage like feeling being persecuted, low self-esteem, depression to the point he had to take meds.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">I really thought about why people torture others and what I found out was that “There´s always behind the behavior” Research have shown (Robinson 2010) that adults that bully are adults that probably during their childhood experienced some kind of abuse or are repeating behaviors that were modeled from adults. For them being aggressive is just right. On the other hand, most of the persons that bully mask their own insecurities and emotional deficiencies with aggressive behaviors.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Finally I have to say that inexcusable for government to torture a human being, no matter if he is a terrorists, a killer, or a robber. We cannot support this kind of practices in our countries. We have to model to our children other types of values, like empathy, forgiveness, compassion and empathy. WE have to tech and model PEACE.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Do an individual reflection on what you thought, what you learned and be sure to

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">comment on the following specific points. (250 + or -)

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">1. Why do you think the rate of homicide violence has gone down in the last 800

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">years?

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">I have to say that I have never thought about this. I was positively surprised when I found out that the rate of homicide had gone down so drastically. Then when I read Monkkonen (2006) it makes sense. The fact that slavery was vanished, and that we haven’t have a world war since 1945 and the knowledge that people know that 80 % of the homicide cases end up in jail explain why the violence rate had decrease.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">I also want to add that the values in society have change enormously too and that from my point of view have influenced the rate of violence. Even though, I am from one of the most violent countries in world I have to say that I have personally experience that shift. During my childhood the Colombian society was very punitive towards social status, gender, religion, and sexual tendencies. We were educated in a society were difference were not accepted. You were taught to ignore or mistreat people who were not like you. The people who live in situation of poverty were taught to hate “the rich” .For many years there was a silent war between rich and poor. Until we had an incredible president that thought that education was a key factor for peace. He also believe that we had to open our frontiers to the word to let cultures in. After 8 years of this vision people started to see thing differently. Schools started to accept children from different countries, religions and social status, all the policies began to change. My mom taught us to be empathic, to help, to treat the persons who help us our house (cleaning lady , drivers etc ) as part of our family. So I think the fact that societies shift from teaching war to teaching peace have help a lot in decreasing the rate of violence.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">2. Did you over or underestimate violence in the United States?

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Well, I thought the rate was higher. You hear things like gunshots at schools or that everyone can buy a gun without restrictions. As I said above I never considered the factors Mokkonen mention in his paper.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">3. What did your 4 subject colleagues think about violence in general?

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">The four them thought the rate was lower than in the past.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">4. Why?

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Due to the fact that the justice system is stronger and that societies values have change. People act different than they used too they have new perspectives and a new way of seeing fairness.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">5. What did you think about this lesson.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">I think we all have to reflect in our past in the history of our own culture .in order to see what have work what have change. We have to look back and learn from our mistakes.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">I think this lesson showed the importance of reflecting in our cultural history.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Assigment # 5 **


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Describe a time when you saw someone's brain get "Hijacked" by their Amygdala. **

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">I have an identical twin sister we love each other deeply. I know everything about her. We have shared everything our entire life. I know exactly what buttons to push to take her to her limits. Two years ago we were in Miami and we started to argue about what color was the best for a bathing suit .(very silly right ?) but one thing take us to another and in a minute we were in this huge fight. My sister smashed the door with the door and cracked the wall. She started screaming and throwing things.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Then, write a brief (250 word+ or -) report describing what you observed or experienced.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">When this episode happened I couldn’t believe this reaction towards such an insignificant event. I thought my sister is really losing it. But I was so impressed that I just sit there and watch her. After 10 min or less she came back to my room and said that she was sorry that she didn’t know where that came from. After reviewing this chapter and having more knowledge about the brain I know for sure her brain was hijacked by her amygdala. First, she exhibited al the symptoms that Goleman mentioned “ <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Here are three signs of an amygdala hijack: strong emotional reaction, sudden onset, and "when you reflect later, you realize it was inappropriate". She also was in a situation where she felt threaten. Not by me but she was transferred she had to deal with a new job, a new city, for her everything was perceive as a threaten, she didn’t felt safe. she was always alert ready to fight or flight. So in one “millisecond the emotional response took over her brain. (Goleman,1996) My sister showed all the parasympathic symptoms that human beings exhibit when defending. Sweating, blushing, fast heart beating, and agitated breathing. The brain had the blue print of danger and with a minimum of negative stimuli the amygdala took over without letting the prefrontal cortex “analyze” the situation responding as she was in great danger.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">In my daily life I have caught myself being hijacked by my amygdala. Sometimes I am so stressed that I act out with my love ones and after a few minutes I found myself regretting every single word or thought that I said or have. In the society that we live, more more we feel attacked by our coworkers, isolated, we are always defending ourselves from everything a everyone our brain is always alert taking away brain energy and attention that we need for appropriate behaviors and success. This make me think in the fact that more than ever we need to practice, relaxation techniques, self-regulation and anger management strategies in order to create more communication pathways with our prefrontal cortex in order to act coherently with the environmental demands.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">This lesson also made me think that as a teachers I have two responsibilities in this area:


 * 1) <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">1. Create safe learning environment in order to get more ” prefontal responses” rather than “amygdala responses” . I am going to create a learning environment were the levels of cortisol drop so my students will learn instead of defend.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">2. I have to become the person I want them to be . I can not ask my student to have selfregulation skills when I am always stressed . I have to work with my own feelings before ask them to deal with theirs. I have to be a honest model. Because as the text say when your Amygdala hijacked your brain you can not pretend . So I want to be ready. I thought about having like little posters in my classroom with sentences /mantras that can I can look went I know Im going to burst . For example “I am safe and I´m calm . I can deal with this “or “I choose to be calm” Also practice yoga breathing techniques and have a visual cue that I can refer to during stressful moments.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">write a brief (250 word+ or -) report describing what you observed or experienced.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">“fake it until you become it” love it !

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">I showed this video to my boyfriend and he said there’s no way this could be possible. He is a very good leader at a multinational company many people always look up for him. He knows he belong to the position he is in. He has no doubts.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">For my surprise he came in one night saying “you know your mind stuff really work and is scary ….” I asked what are you talking about … he said that he wanted to test the theory of the nonverbal. He wanted to know if it was that important and that powerful.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Heh told me that he has two mettings that day. In the first one his non verbal were as always shoulders high, he made himself big etc everything went as always. In the second one he touch his face often, he crossed his legs and arms making himself smaller. and he said “EVERYONE ignored me. Nobody was interested in what I have to say” we were both amazed in how powerful our non verbals are in social interaction.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Assignment #6 **


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Define: **


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">What is a conflict? **

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">According to which a conflict is the result of opposing interests involving scarce resources, goal divergence and frustration. A conflict has generally been defined as a situation in which two or more parties strive to acquire the same scarce resources at the same time.(Swanstromm,Weissmann,2005)

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">“Conflict is a natural, vital part of life. When conflict is understood, it can become nan opportunity to learn and create the challenge for people in conflict is to apply the principles of creative cooperation in their human relationships “( Bodline, Craword, 1996)

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> What is conflict resolution? (Texts, Web and personal observations are permitted.)

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">The National Center On dispute Resolution in Special Education (2010) defines conflict resolution as a “spectrum of processes that utilize communication skills and creative and analytic thinking to prevent, manage and peacefully resolve conflict.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> Bodline, Craword, (1996) states that every school should teach conflict resolution because :

ü <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">The problem – solving process of conflict resolution (negotiation, mediation and consensus decision making) can make a peaceful school climate

ü <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Conflict resolution strategies can reduce violence ,vandalism, chronic school absence and suspention

ü <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Conflict resolution training helps students and teacher s deepen their understanding of themselves and others and develops important life skills

ü <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Training in negotiation, mediation and consensus decision making encourages a high level of citizenship activity.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">The principles of conflict resolution are:

ü <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Separate people from the problem

ü <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Focus on interests not positions

ü <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Invent options of mutual gain

ü <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Use objective criteria

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">And the approaches to conflict resolution in education are :

ü <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Process Curriculum: devoting a specific time to teaching the foundation abilities, principles and one or more of the problem solving process of conflict resolution.

ü <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Mediation program: selected individualize trained in the principles and foundation abilities of conflict resolution and in mediation process in order to provide neutral third party facilitation.

ü <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Peaceable Classroom : A whole classroom methodology that includes teaching students the foundation abilities, principles and one or more the three problem solving processes of conflict resolution

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">1. **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Analyze one conflict that you have observed or participated in in terms of a "Hijacked Brain". This would be a conflict that started and escalated because of an emotional engagement. **

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Yes, I have seen that most of the times a simple disagreement can escalate because of emotional engagement. Or on the other hand when people don’t get emotional engage towards a situation they can come up with different ideas and fixed the situation appropriate. I think that the advantages of applying the principles three different approaches mention above give the opportunity to the prefontal cortex to take the over the situation instead of the amygdala.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">I am going to start using this principles and approaches in my classroom. As a kindergarten teacher I have realize that it is a must to implement this programs as young as possible. As Amy Cuddy said in the video the mind and shape the brain and we become our thoughts and attitude. So I am a MIND shaper, I am in a large percentage of charge in shaping those little minds to become successful and caring human beings. I read a very good article “ Conflict Resolution Education, I guide to implementing programs in schools, youth-serving organization and Community and Juvenile justice Settings”(1996) by Crawford and Bodine they emphasize the importance of implementing these programs from K-12 because trouble behaviors once launched ,perpetuates, itself throughout a person´s life that is why the community have to implement these program in order to prevent instead of correct. With different practice we can teach our students to inhibit the reptilian responses (amygdala)and work closer with their more thoughtful responses (prefrontal)

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">The authors also stated the fact that is very important to recognize that some youth are at risk for violence in their early years and should be provided with effective ,comprehensive experiences in school ,home and in the community. Some intervention they propose are the following

ü <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Strengthen parenting bond

ü <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Teaching children self-discipline

ü <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Teaching conflict resolution.

ü <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Mentoring at –risk youth

ü <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Mentoring and training parents

ü <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Targeting bullies.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Assignment #7 **


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Identify and deliver 3 - I Messages **

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">1. Mauricio when you scream at me I stop listening and feel worried about our relationship <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">2. Mom, when you explicitly say what you want I can easily know what you are thinking and I feel very happy about Cleary understand what you want. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">3. Santi, when you clean your room I can find things easier and I feel proud.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Tell what the reaction was to your "I" messages! <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">The first one was delivered to my boyfriend during an interaction we had. But he stopped and said why are you talking to me like that .after using more I messages he really got what his actions/behaviors were causing me emotionally. the best part was that I didn’t had to explain. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">The second one I delivered it to my mom and she said I am glad (ha ha ) she is a very proud woman. But I am going to keep using this little “script” with her because sometimes she is passive aggressive saying between lines what she doesn’t like. Using the I messages I highlight the importance of her honesty in my life. =<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">On your wiki page give Gigi and "I message" to help her change her behavior. = <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">GiGi when you go over my things, I fight with my boyfriend and I feel very frustrated. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Gigi when you get in my house and respect my privacy, we can talk and had a fun time and felt incredibly happy <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Mari when you smash the door to wall, I have nothing to say I was worried about your well being. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Mari when you talked nicely, I was able to express myself and I felt very comfortable taking to you.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">and **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">After she changes her behavior give her another "I Message" to reinforce her behavior change. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Your assignment is two final "I Messages" One corrective and one positive! **

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">NO link (not working ) <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">EXTRA CREDIT ASSIGNMENT!

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">What do you think of this video / new article?

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Would an "I" message have worked better?

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">What could the "I message" have been?

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Assignment 8

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Share that contract on your own wiki page.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Kindergarten behavior contract

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Date

__<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Name _______

__<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Dear Dad and Mom, __

__<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I want to become a better listener and a great friend. For the next week Clau and I are going to pay attention to all the good things I do during Mat time, recesses and lunch. __

__<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> I have to use my nice words not my body when I don’t like something. __

__<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> I will be kind with my friends __

__<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> -say nice things to them when they are coloring __

__<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> -help them to pick things from the floor __

__<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> - Help Clau to carry things around. __

__<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> I will be listening to Clau __

__<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Criss –cross hands to my self __

__<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Eyes on Clau __

__<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">At the end of the I will take this chart home I we will celebrate together. I will let you know all the good things I did for my friends. Please sign this paper because we are all in this together. __

__<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> LOVE, __

_____

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Claudia Mora Dad Mom


 * |||| <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Monday |||| <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Thursday |||| <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Wednesday |||| <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Thursday ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Mat time || [[image:http://edu640-conflict-resolution.wikispaces.com/site/embedthumbnail/placeholder?w=200&h=115 width="200" height="115" caption="https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQFQBK74n-DJcFutWc1qWgvoo-zme1FAXstxpaTOHRnJwJYluZ8tQ"]] || <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Cris cross

<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">hands to my self

<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Eyes on Clau || || <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Cris cross

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<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">hands to my self

<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Eyes on Clau || <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> || <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Cris cross

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<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Eyes on Clau ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">And lunch || <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;"> || <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Say nice things to my friends <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Ex

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<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Help them with || <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> || <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Say nice things to my friends

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<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Help them with ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Of GOOD THING DURING THE DAY ||  ||   ||||   ||||   ||||   ||   ||
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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Do describe the behavior issues that you are working to change. **

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">This is a little child that last year had a many difficulties towards social interaction. He hit, punch and spit specifically during non structure times. School have tried everything but next year I want to focus on the good. I think if I get this s child to realize that he can do many kind things that will empowered him. That I s why this contract is not as the ones I saw which emphasizes in the DONTS or in the NOS this contract explicitly emphasized in the acts of kidness that are the ones that I want to promote. We are going to do his contract together he will tellme what kind acts he can do for his friends I’m there just as a facilitator in that way he will be emotionally attached to this acts of kindness. I think parents are a key component when you want to change behaviors or more than change to generalize. As with everything in education you have to create e many scenarios were children practice the skill to are teaching. Involving parents also send the message that we are all in this together “school value your help”.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Lastly I want to say that I am not a extrinsic motivation fan …. I use some of that rarely. I am a believer that you can celebrate success in many other ways that where dopamine levels are going to stay steadier rather than just a high of neurotransmitters that last 2 seconds.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Assignment 9 **

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I have to say that I agree with these theories partially. I think we tend to be one way but I have seen that almost all of have traits of all the personalities for me it wasn’t easy to rate the questions in most of them I wanted to answer 4 to 3 options. I have two strong personalities People person and creative problem solver and in some how it fits to me but I also have very strong traits of the practical manager profile. I think that personality and diagnosis statements evolve. When I was younger I was a risktaker, I was afraid of nothing I was talkative. But now I’m different but I am still me.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">But I also have to say that that this exercises help to know your students and you have to do all what you can to get to know the (conncet to correct) and How you connect ? Knowing them.