Happy Friday.
Thank you, families, for your love and support as we celebrated our wonderful staff. Our teaching and support staff love and truly care about our young learners and it is so great to also be appreciated and celebrated. So, thank you for making our staff feel appreciated!
This month, we continue to celebrate the value of IB Learner Profile of being reflective.
We all need to be reflective in order to become better people.
How can parents help to develop students who are reflective at home?
Have your child stop and think throughout the day about their behaviors. Assist him/her with focusing on the following prompts:
~Is what I'm doing appropriate? If so, explain why it is. If not, explain how it is not.
~How can I change my behavior? Have your child think of positive ways to make changes.
~Is the situation I am in a positive situation? If not, how can I make it a positive situation?
~Am I doing my best? Am I working my hardest?
Parents can model the above thinking process by talking aloud to themselves, ask and answer yourself these questions about things you are doing throughout your day. This way your child sees you working through the Reflection process, and can use your examples as their models to learn from.
* Model how to make mistakes, how to fail. And then, how to pick yourself up and dust yourself off. It's okay to make mistakes, making mistakes is part of learning. Being Reflective teaches us how to grow and learn from both mistakes and from positive experiences.
Let us be better citizens by striving to be humble and being life-long learners with our kids.
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