The Safe Creative Mind / Creating Your Curriculum

  

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REVIEW

 

Lexi,  Lana, Haley, Lauren, Kemeria

The type of teaching and learning keeps children involved and interested. Education has children at the center of learning.

Colette, Anna Sophia, Sierra, Jordan and Sophia

Concentration and deep memory needs to be taught in the west.

Madison, Julia, Soffi, Melody, Alyssa

The learning process needs to be built into the society.

 

 

II

Goldie Hawn

Goldie Jeanne Hawn (born November 21, 1945) is an American actress, producer, and singer. She rose to fame on the NBC sketch comedy program Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1968–1970), before going on to receive the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Cactus Flower (1969). Hawn maintained bankable star status for more than three decades.


Goldie Jeanne Hawn (born in Washington DC, November 21, 1945) is an American actress, producer, and singer. She rose to fame on the NBC sketch comedy program Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1968–1970), before going on to receive the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Cactus Flower (1969).

 

Hawn was raised Jewish. She began taking ballet and tap dance lessons at the age of three and danced in the corps de ballet of the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo production of The Nutcracker in 1955. She made her stage debut in 1964, playing Juliet in a Virginia Shakespeare Festival production of Romeo and Juliet.

 

By 1964, she ran and taught in a ballet school, having dropped out of American University where she was majoring in drama. In 1964, Hawn made her professional dancing debut in a production of Can-Can at the Texas Pavilion of the New York World's Fair. She began working as a professional dancer a year later and appeared as a go-go dancer in New York City and at the Peppermint Box in New Jersey.


 

III


(51:23 - 1:08)

Mind Up for Life


 

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MACRO LEVEL

Curriculum

 In education, a curriculum is broadly defined as the totality of student experiences that occur in the educational process. The term often refers specifically to a planned sequence of instruction, or to a view of the student's experiences in terms of the educator's or school's instructional goals.

 

Mind Up for Life

https://mindup.org


Go to Mind Up for Schools > Mind Up for Educators and Schools

Program Details: 

Designed with every classroom in mind

Positive School-wide culture and climate


Benefit for Teachers: An Optimistic Classroom


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Activity


What would be a holistic approach to a school program?

Get in groups and plan a holistic curriculum that includes the following elements to achieve happiness for children:

1. Brain Break

2. Teaching children how to learn about their brain and how to use it.

a) Focus
b) Happiness
c) Kindness
d) Gratitude journaling

3. Teach children brain fitness:
a) Resilience
b) Self-Awareness
c) Critical Thinking

3. Teach Children how to manage their own brain/reality.


4. Work with parents.

5. Include evidence based research/Positive Psychology.



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