Today we watched a Ted Talk by Kay Hutcheson on Restorative Practices.
Kay's husband was tragically killed and she talked through how she dealt with this. She could either react like the community expected her to or she could model to her own children how to react in a restorative way.
Here is the link: http://youtu.be/wcLuVeHlrSs
To relate back into the classroom... do we want to give children 'time out" or "time in?" Do we want to teach them to be "human beings" or" human doings?"
My goal from this video is to really make sure I give all children time to talk through what went wrong and to highlight the importance of talking through problems instead of reacting and handing out consequences.
Another point that was highlighted for me was that even those children who are not buying in to having a restorative chat will eventually 'click" 1 or 2 years on.
Kay's husband was tragically killed and she talked through how she dealt with this. She could either react like the community expected her to or she could model to her own children how to react in a restorative way.
Here is the link: http://youtu.be/wcLuVeHlrSs
To relate back into the classroom... do we want to give children 'time out" or "time in?" Do we want to teach them to be "human beings" or" human doings?"
My goal from this video is to really make sure I give all children time to talk through what went wrong and to highlight the importance of talking through problems instead of reacting and handing out consequences.
Another point that was highlighted for me was that even those children who are not buying in to having a restorative chat will eventually 'click" 1 or 2 years on.
