Geoff-Allen
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5 Ways to Spread Kindness in Your Class
1. Build on children’s knowledge: Activate children’s personal experiences with kindness by making it an explicit topic of conversation. Hold class discussions in which you ask children to describe kind acts they have performed and received. What does acting kindly look like? What do kind words sound like? How does kindness feel inside?
Invite children to contribute ideas for the behaviors they want to embrace to keep their classroom a safe, fair, and caring place. Capture their ideas on an anchor chart that you co-create and continually revisit and revise. This living document reinforces that every community member is responsible for the well-being of the whole group.
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1. Build on children’s knowledge: Activate children’s personal experiences with kindness by making it an explicit topic of conversation. Hold class discussions in which you ask children to describe kind acts they have performed and received. What does acting kindly look like? What do kind words sound like? How does kindness feel inside?
Invite children to contribute ideas for the behaviors they want to embrace to keep their classroom a safe, fair, and caring place. Capture their ideas on an anchor chart that you co-create and continually revisit and revise. This living document reinforces that every community member is responsible for the well-being of the whole group.
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A Culture of Kindness in Early Childhood Classrooms
Encouraging kindness in the early grades helps children develop behaviors that have value far beyond their school years.