Education Professional Development
Stop the Stress in Schools
Mental health strategies teachers can use to build a kinder gentler classroom
- Publisher
- Pembroke Publishers
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2014
- Category
- Professional Development
-
Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781551382982
- Publish Date
- Oct 2014
- List Price
- $28.95
-
eBook
- ISBN
- 9781551389004
- Publish Date
- Oct 2014
- List Price
- $25.95
Add it to your shelf
Where to buy it
Description
This timely book explores the stresses exerted on today's students, and shows teachers how to reduce the atmosphere of tension and pressure in their classrooms. It emphasizes the power teachers have in building a positive environment, through kindness and stress reduction.
Committed to fostering a healthier classroom, Stop the Stress in Schools provides explicit ways to build healthy relationships and handle problems so that negative interactions, such as bullying, are reduced. It features calming strategies that include slowing the pace; increasing positive engagement and interaction, considering the perspective of the student; and celebrating process rather than product. Instead of targeting the symptoms of stress, this thoughtful book focuses on the social-emotional traits that are instrumental in helping children experience stress and navigate through it constructively. A comprehensive approach to reducing stress and frustration for teachers and students, the book includes practical examples, activities, and samples of student work.
About the author
JOEY MANDEL is the author of Moment to Moment: A positive approach to behavior, and a special education teacher and presenter at the Toronto District School Board, promoting positive teaching strategies and stress reduction in the classroom. She runs a private educational consulting and therapy practice, offering strategies to help parents teach social-emotional skills to their children and increase positive relationships in the home.