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When Success Sours - Stanford Magazine - Medium - 1 views

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Growth mindset

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  • Dweck’s stardom has come with a harsh side effect: In the minds of many, “growth mindset” mutated almost beyond recognition. As she recently put it in her characteristically delicate way, “I slowly became aware that not all educators understood the concept fully.” As a result, Dweck has been reaching out to educational audiences in person and in print to dispel some troubling myths.
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Toxic Stress and SPD, Dr. Jamie Chaves, OTD, OTR/L, SWC - Dr. Jamie Chaves, OTD, OTR/L - 0 views

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OT stress sensory processing differentiation

shared by Scott Nancarrow on 08 Sep 16 - No Cached
  • Stress isn’t necessarily a bad thing—it can mobilize us and allow us to function well.
  • our bodies and brains are designed to handle small amounts of stress.
  • “toxic stress” and it has a myriad of negative implications for the body, brain, emotions, and relationships. Examples include inattention, poor emotional control, decreased memory, difficulty learning, poor frustration tolerance, irritable bowel syndrome, and even a compromised immune system.
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  • children with SOR experience a stress response on a more frequent and more intense basis.  And, they can remain in elevated states of stress for longer periods of time than neurotypical children.
  • what happens when we cannot habituate to the unimportant sensory stimuli
  • Our brain must integrate all of this input in order to determine the most important stimuli or information to attend to in order to socially engage and function in the situation. This requires our brainstem to receive all the sensory information from our nerves and our amygdala, and to interpret whether or not the sensory information is a threat.  When the brain works the way it’s supposed to, sensory stimuli that is not important is filtered out
  • After several exposures to those negative situations the brain begins to anticipate the threat, thereby heightening the stress response even more. They cannot be “talked through” the situation or “reasoned with” because access to the higher, thinking, cognitive cortex has been blocked by the stress response.
  • Because it is impossible to control all sensory-related aspects of the environment, children with SOR can present as highly anxious, controlling, withdrawing, or with acting out behaviors-- all of which are responses to repeated, elevated stress
  • Children must be in a state of regulation, or optimal arousal, or what we can call “tolerable stress” before they have the capacity to learn, develop new skills, and try novel activities.
  • Changing the way the neurological system responds to incoming sensory stimuli, however, takes time—usually 6-12 months of ongoing therapy. In the meantime, it is important that parents, educators, relatives, and other professionals recognize that acting out behaviors may actually be a sensory-related stress response, and the child may need support, soothing through co-regulation, and intervention instead of behavioral interventions or punitive responses.
  • Caregivers and professions can also be more aware of scenarios that cause stress in children with sensory overresponsiveness and take steps to decrease the intensity of those sensory experiences to prevent a toxic stress load.  
  • Scott Nancarrow on 08 Sep 16
     
    Brief blog post by Dr. Chaves (who works at the Center for Connection in Pasadena) on the topic of Sensory and Stress. Heavy on the language of Occupational Therapy, but good perspective for anyone and everyone
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How to Respond to Kids With ADHD Who Lie | Expert Corner - 0 views

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kids adhd how to lies differentiation

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  • kids with ADHD may tell lies as a part of their ADHD symptoms
  • You can preempt a lot of lies by guiding the conversation and asking the right questions.
  • asking a child to think before you allow him to answer may help you sort out intentional lies from impulsive responses.
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  • By letting a child know the consequences, you can help them think through his response
  • Keep in mind when you are a child with ADHD and get in trouble, it’s easy to get caught up in untruths. Helping kids become more able and willing to tell the truth is critical for them as they move into adolescence and adulthood
  • Scott Nancarrow on 08 Sep 16
     
    Strategies for sorting intentional lies from impulsive responses.
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RSA Animates - YouTube - 0 views

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school differentiation mindset praise process

shared by Scott Nancarrow on 07 Sep 16 - No Cached
  • Scott Nancarrow on 07 Sep 16
     
    10 minute animated Carol Dweck video about growth/fixed mindsets and how praising process yields different results from praising intelligence.
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The Problem with Story Problems - 0 views

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math differentiation

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  • Scott Nancarrow on 24 Jun 16
     
    Cultural literacy/competency vs. Math status quo
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Teaching in a Time of Terrorism - 0 views

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facing history teaching tolerance

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  • Scott Nancarrow on 15 Jun 16
     
    This blog is a great resource for finding grounded language for educators trying to find a way to discuss current events with students.
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6 Strategies for Differentiated Instruction in Project-Based Learning | Edutopia - 1 views

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differentiated instruction pbl project-based learning edutopia

shared by Scott Nancarrow on 09 Jan 16 - No Cached
  • Scott Nancarrow on 09 Jan 16
     
    Honestly, not too much new information for me in this article, but a well-summarized version of that information for sure; comments were actually what made this stand out for me...
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