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Teaching & Education Beliefs: Attitudes & Responsibilities

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Here are the last 20 of my top 100 beliefs about teaching and education. Today’s beliefs are about teacher’s attitudes and responsibilities. To read all of them, check out the Teaching & Education Beliefs.

1. In order to raise a new generation of thinkers, teaching should encourage kids to question, even it is means they question you. During my lessons, I teach the kids to question me and the world around them; we should not keep doing things just because we always have. If we do that, we never grow and evolve. Our job as teacher is not to think for them, but to teach children to think for themselves.

2. If you focus on a child’s problems, all you will see is problems. If you focus on their strengths, you will see their gifts. Teachers consider kids problematic or gifted depending on what they focus on.

“Teaching is not about what we give our students but about what they choose to take. We spend too much time giving our students information and too little teaching them how to absorb it” – Ronit Baras

This post is part 5 of 6 in the series Teaching & Education Beliefs

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June 28, 2013 by Ronit Baras In: Parenting Tags: acceptance / judgment / tolerance, beliefs, creative / creativity, education / learning, emotional intelligence, empowerment, expectation, feeling, government, intelligence, k-12 education, kids / children, learning styles, motivation, music, personal development / personal growth / personality development / self improvement, practical parenting / parents, school, success, teaching / teachers, tips, wisdom

Teaching & Education Beliefs: Think Ahead

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Teachers, just like everybody else, do better when they think ahead and get organized. Today’s 20 teaching and education beliefs are about this. If you are here for the first time, you may want to start reading “Teaching & Education Beliefs” from the start of the series.

1. When I need to cover a topic over 8 weeks, I aim to finish it early, maybe in 6 weeks. This gives me time to deal with unexpected circumstances that pop up. If everything goes to plan, we have 2 weeks to have fun. If not, we have two weeks to compensate for the delay.

2. If I want to help my student, I must take care of myself. Kids are born with senses to read the people around them. There is no point pretending when you are around them. They will be able to tell when something is wrong.

This post is part 4 of 6 in the series Teaching & Education Beliefs

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June 20, 2013 by Ronit Baras In: Parenting Tags: academic performance, acceptance / judgment / tolerance, attitude, beliefs, birthdays, change, conflict, creative / creativity, education / learning, emotional intelligence, failure, fun, goals / goal setting, government, intelligence, k-12 education, kids / children, motivational speaker, practical parenting / parents, public speaker, research, school, self confidence / self esteem / self worth, skills, society, success, teaching / teachers, touch

Teaching & Education Beliefs: Use Your Power

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Here are 20 more of my top 100 beliefs about teaching and education:

1. Teaching is the business of manipulating students to think they are smart, wonderful, talented, pretty, successful, happy, healthy and wealthy. Whether we like it or not, us teachers have a lot of power over what our students think about themselves. Do not feel guilty. It is part of the job description. Just be sure to use this power wisely.

2. When I am upset with my students I think of them as the cutest babies. My anger dissolves.

This post is part 3 of 6 in the series Teaching & Education Beliefs

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June 13, 2013 by Ronit Baras In: Education / Learning Tags: academic performance, attitude, beliefs, education / learning, emotional intelligence, empowerment, environment, k-12 education, kids / children, positive, responsibility, school, social, social skills, success, success experience, teaching / teachers, vacation

Teaching & Education Beliefs: I Am an Educator

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In today’s part of Teaching & Education Beliefs, I want to share with you the first 20 of the top 100 beliefs I have about teaching and education.

Last week we discussed where beliefs about teaching come from: from our parents and our own teachers. In this post, I want to share some helpful tips that I found useful through my career.

1. I am an educator. I teach, I coach, I present, I motivate, I do public speaking, I write, I do my community work. In all those roles, I educate kids and grownups on how to find the gifts they have inside and let themselves shine.

2. School is not a place where kids come to gain knowledge; it is a small version of real life. Children have opportunities to use trial and error without detrimental consequences. Kids come to school to learn about themselves, grow and evolve.

This post is part 2 of 6 in the series Teaching & Education Beliefs

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June 6, 2013 by Ronit Baras In: Education / Learning Tags: academic performance, acceptance / judgment / tolerance, action, activity, attitude, beliefs, books, communication styles, education / learning, emotional intelligence, empowerment, how to, k-12 education, kids / children, learning styles, reading, school, success, teaching / teachers, teens / teenagers, tips, touch

How to Choose the Best School for Your Kids: Questions to Consider

To find the school that best fits you and your child, and make sure you get the highest return on one of the biggest investments of your life, there are some things to think about. You need to consider how each of the factors or school characteristics influences your child’s education and success.

Here are some tips of what to consider when trying determining your formula for finding the best school. These will improve the chances of your investment being a success. They are in no particular order.

School Size

The size of the school needs to match your kid’s personality. Big schools have more programs, more enrichment, and more options in teaching. But there is always a risk that your child will get lost in the hustle and bustle. Check out the school, go meet the principal, talk to parents. Often, parents choose little schools because they want their child to get personal attention. The principal knows the children by name and the school has a personal touch. My children went primary school with over 1600 kids in it. The principal knew all the kids’ names, their parents’ names, their parent’s professions and what their hobbies were. It is possible to get a big school with a personal touch. This was good for my kids. Other parents who went to the exact same schools felt that their child was just a number in such a big school. It was not for them.

This post is part 3 of 3 in the series How to Choose the Best School for Your Kids

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March 12, 2013 by Ronit Baras In: Education / Learning, Parenting Tags: action, assessment, behavior / discipline, change, choice, education / learning, emotional intelligence, empowerment, environment, family matters, how to, k-12 education, kids / children, learning disabilities, mom, motivation, needs, positive, practical parenting / parents, school, social, social skills, special education, teaching / teachers, tips, tuition, tutoring

How to Choose the Best School for Your Kids: The Formula

As parents, our choice of appropriate school for our kids needs to be revaluated every year. If a child is spends up to 13 years at school, we should be re-evaluating our choice at least 13 times.

Unfortunately, some people just send their kids to the closest school. Sometimes, it is the only school available and in fact, they do not really have much of a choice. The majority of parents believe they should make schooling choices about two or three times. Depending on the structure of the education system, parents make choices about day care/ kindergarten, primary school, and middle school/high school. Some parents even consider this question only once and decide to send their kid to a college (which goes from kindergarten to Grade 12).

This post is part 2 of 3 in the series How to Choose the Best School for Your Kids

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March 5, 2013 by Ronit Baras In: Education / Learning, Parenting Tags: academic performance, action, assessment, behavior / discipline, change, choice, education / learning, emotional intelligence, empowerment, environment, family matters, how to, k-12 education, kids / children, learning disabilities, mom, motivation, needs, positive, practical parenting / parents, school, social, social skills, special education, teaching / teachers, tips, tuition, tutoring

Kids Cheating with Mobile Phones: Who is to Blame?

Schools struggle a lot with the increased use of mobile phones by children. Many new regulations are in place to stop children from bringing mobile phone to school. At a primary school level, some schools ask the students to deposit their mobile phones at the office. In high schools, the phone devices are part of everyday life and a regular item in each class. In the past, teachers had to deal with the concentration and focus of the children. Now, they need to fight the attraction of the mobile phones as well!

With the introduction of mobile phones, one new problem that teachers to deal with is cheating on tests. In the past, students had to think of very sophisticated ways of writing cheat shits on paper, on their hand, the back of the ruler or the calculator. Kids today have a very handy way to keep the information and they use it well.

A survey conducted by a media sources with some common sense discovered that a third of teens with mobiles admitted to storing information on their phone, using it in an exam or texting their friends the answers while their friends are in the exam.

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February 28, 2013 by Ronit Baras In: Education / Learning, Kids / Children Tags: academic performance, anger, art, assessment, attitude, behavior / discipline, change, choice, creative / creativity, digital, education / learning, family matters, fear, health / wellbeing, intelligence, internet, k-12 education, kids / children, memory, parenting teens, practical parenting / parents, research, school, teaching / teachers, technology, teens / teenagers, values

How to Choose the Best School for Your Kids: Return on Investment

Education is one of the most important investments in life (followed closely by investing in relationships). Many people around the world spend a fortune on a good school for their kids. Sadly, this fortune is often wasted and they end up blaming their children for not making the most out of the opportunity they were given. It is similar to investing in the share market or in property, you find a lousy house or buy very shaky shares and complain when they do not increase in value.

Children spend the majority of their most valuable childhood years in educational institutions. Think about it this way: out of 7 days a week, 5 of them are dedicated to schooling. If the kids are also stimulated in other ways, they may even spend some of their weekends in educational endeavors.

Much like other investments, the decision whether to invest or not, and in what to invest depends on the potential return. If the return is high, it is considered a good investment. If the return is low, it is not a very good investment, and if there is likely to be a loss, it is a terrible investment.

This post is part 1 of 3 in the series How to Choose the Best School for Your Kids

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February 21, 2013 by Ronit Baras In: Education / Learning, Parenting Tags: academic performance, action, assessment, behavior / discipline, change, choice, education / learning, emotional intelligence, empowerment, environment, family matters, how to, k-12 education, kids / children, learning disabilities, mom, motivation, needs, positive, practical parenting / parents, school, social, social skills, special education, teaching / teachers, tips, tuition, tutoring

A Good Start for the First Day of School

In Australia, the new school year starts today. I sent some rules about starting the year on a positive note to all my clients, which I would like to share with you too.

Even though the first week of the school year is not very important in terms of learning material (because most teachers do not teach new things), I believe it is one of the most important weeks. It is a pivotal point for setting the right frame of mind to ensure a good year.

Most kids are very excited to start the year. They have mixed emotions of anticipation and fear. Whatever happens in the first week of school, will determine which will take over – the fun and excitement or the dread, from the new teacher, academic performance or lack of friends.

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January 29, 2013 by Ronit Baras In: Kids / Children, Parenting Tags: books, education / learning, emotions, how to, k-12 education, kids / children, positive, positive attitude tips, practical parenting / parents, rules, school, sleep, success, teaching / teachers

How to Raise Gifted Children: Find the switch

In my parenting workshops, when I talk about ways to find that switch in the kids’ brain and talk about Eden, who is emotionally gifted, and Tsoof, who is musically gifted, I get a feeling that many of the participants believe that they were born gifted. The hardest thing for me to do in the workshop is to convince them that Eden and Tsoof were as ordinary and special as all other kids in the world. Sometimes, when I manage to convince my clients how we did it, they sit there in shock and in silence for a minute and ask, “Do you mean your kids are just regular kids?!”

Yes, I do!

“They are as regular as others and they are as special as others. All kids have the light inside. The only difference between them and others is that their parents dedicate enough energy to finding the switch that turns on the light”.

I believe that the essence of life is finding that switch and turning the light on. This light is where all good feeling resides. Where success can find a home, abundance is on our dinner table constantly and happiness shines in every corner of our being. I consider people lucky if their light is on or if they know where the switch is and they can turn it on at will.

The great thing about that light is that it can be used in dark times and life is full of dark moments.

The best time to find the switch and turn the light on is during childhood, long before the dark ages of our conditioned adulthood, long before we think of ourselves as frustrated and unable. This requires parents to dedicate much of their energy to finding that switch.

This post is part 2 of 4 in the series How to Raise Gifted Children

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October 4, 2012 by Ronit Baras In: Kids / Children, Parenting Tags: academic performance, behavior / discipline, choice, early childhood, emotional intelligence, family matters, focus, gifted, happiness, how to, k-12 education, kids / children, learning styles, Life Coaching, motivation, parent coaching, practical parenting / parents, school, success, teaching / teachers

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