Mindful teaching

So, I finally found out how to start a new blog with out making a new blog site, which is what I have been doing! My bad. Guys, this technology life is not easy. But to be a digital pedagogue I guess I better learn. At least I have untill 2017!

So, this weeks blog, let's have a think....
I love the initiative the teacher took, putting a jug of water on a table so the previously noisy children had to be silent and not spill the water, ingenious.

I can't help but then children are easily manipulated, if you know how to do it right. So mindful teaching also means clever teaching to me. In the sense that you need to know how to "play" your students. Let's think scientifically quickly. There was this dog, and his owner, Pavlov. Pavlov ringed a bell every time there would be good for his dog, this resulted in his dog salivating everytime it heard the bell. The dog associated the bell with food. This is a scientific experiment we as teachers can try with children in different ways. Obviously to our benefit as well.

We can, as teachers, use different devices to be mindful of our student. We can have them associate different things with different thing. They have no second register and so we create them for the students. We put a jug full of water on a table and give a fast which results in silence, and on a Monday morning or a Friday afternoon, I can already imagine that I would love silence. But, to be honest, getting the children to be mindful will in the end be a positive skill for them to have a well.

And that is my two cents. Sorry my blog is a day late, this week has been rough!