Book Club 6

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Right There Questions: 1. What is Dopamine and what does it do? Dopamine is a chemical in our brains, a neurotransmitter, which means it enables communication between brain cells (p.132). 2. What is empathy? Empathy is the idea of emotionally understanding someone's thoughts or feelings from their point of view rather than your own (p.121). In Your Head Questions: 1. How can you teach children how to see other children's points of view? My favorite question to ask children when they are questioning the thoughts or feelings of one of their peers is “How would that make you feel if it were you?”. Typically the children immediately respond with the same emotion the other child is already experiencing. The next step is to explain that their emotions are valid even if they are different and to be a ‘good friend’. 2. Why do you think children struggle with solving conflicts/do you feel like conflicts are more common among children than adults? Children struggle with more conflict than adults because they don’t have the same life experiences that we have. We know immediately that if there isn’t an answer, we need to find one or even make up one depending on the situation. Also, we’ve all been through plenty of arguments and rough patches to know when to let nature just take its course sometimes because a lot of things in life are truly out of our control. Think and Search Questions: 1. What are some of the activities they listed to help with strategy 11? Different activities that were introduced with strategy 11 were using sidewalk chalk outside, letting them use the video camera to make a movie, board games, and baking cookies among many others (p.133). 2. What are some non-verbal cues that children might have? Non-verbal cues include things such as facial expressions and body language, like the example of page 137 talks about a child saying they’re fine, but they show a sad face and have drooping shoulders. On My Own Questions: 1. What strategy do you use more number 11 or 12? I believe I am actually very good at explaining empathy to my students and like I mentioned before, my favorite question to ask children when they are questioning the
thoughts or feelings of one of their peers is “How would that make you feel if it were you?”. Therefore I believe I use strategy 12 more currently than strategy 11 although I haven’t had the same opportunities to implement the use of #11. 2. Do you think that if we teach children to be kind and respectful our world will be different in the next 100 years? I don’t think that the world would be different in 100 years if we taught children to be kind and respectful without demonstrating how that is supposed to be executed every day. I think it’s one of those ‘too good to be true’ scenarios since I was taught to be kind and respectful growing up, but the world around me is cluttered with a lot of not-so-nice individuals.
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