โ Scribed by O'Grady, Patty
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Use the neuroscience of emotional learning to transform your teaching.
How can the latest breakthroughs in the neuroscience of emotional learning transform the classroom? How can teachers use the principles and practices of positive psychology to ensure optimal 21st-century learning experiences for all children? Patty OโGrady answers those questions. Positive Psychology in the Elementary School Classroom presents the basics of positive psychology to educators and provides interactive resources to enrich teachersโ proficiency when using positive psychology in the classroom. OโGrady underlines the importance of teaching the whole child: encouraging social awareness and positive relationships, fostering self-motivation, and emphasizing social and emotional learning. Through the use of positive psychology in the classroom, children can learn to be more emotionally aware of their own and othersโ feelings, use their strengths to engage academically and socially, pursue meaningful lives, and accomplish their personal goals. The book begins with Martin Seligmanโs positive psychology principles, and continues into an overview of affective learning, including its philosophical and psychological roots, from finding the โgolden meanโ of emotional regulation to finding a childโs potencies and โgolden self.โ OโGrady connects the core concepts of educational neuroscience to the principles of positive psychology, explaining how feelings permeate the brain, affecting childrenโs thoughts and actions; how insular neurons make us feel empathy and help us learn by observation; and how the frontal cortex is the hall monitor of the brain. The book is full of practical examples and interactive resources that invite every educator to create a positive psychology classroom, where children can flourish and reach their full potential
Content: The promise of positive psychology in the elementary school classroom --
Neuroscience of positive psychology in the elementary school classroom --
Taxonomy of positive psychology in the elementary school classroom --
Teaching positive emotions and the pleasant life: feelings --
Teaching engagement and the good life: strengths --
Teaching relationships and the connected life: friendship --
Teaching meaning and the purposeful life: contributions --
Teaching achievement and success: the accomplished life.
Educational psychology.;Positive psychology.;Education, Elementary.;Grundschulunterricht;Schulpsychologie
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