I was absent yesterday to participate in the first of three sessions relating to the Strength Based Resilience (SBR) project for students with Learning Disabilities. This is sponsored by the Human Rights department of the TDSB. Resilience is the ability to "bounce back" when confronted with a challenging situation.
Students with Exceptionalities often faced difficult situations in relation to their learning and in developing relationships with their peers. The program aims to build and develop some of the strengths each of them has and to use them when confronted with difficulties.
I have been trying to work with some of the ideas of strength building by on some of the ideas from the practice of Positive Psychology. Monday's Community circle wanted the students to focus on sharing something positive or "good" from the weekend. Here is the image:
Here is photo taken from Wednesday's Terry Fox walk in the school community.
I wanted to add in that we had a visit from Heather who works for the organization Scientists in the School. When I was booking this program last June, I sensed I would be working on a fraction unit. Her workshop today was called "Fractions in Action" and I think it did a good job in supporting the work we have doing in Math so far this term. Here are some images from this afternoon's activities:
Subsequent Math lessons will make connections to the activities from this afternoon.
HOMEWORK: JUMP Math worksheet (already started in class)
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