Children are more anxious, aggressive, and shut down than ever.
Faced with this epidemic of emotional health crises and behavioural
problems, teachers are asking themselves what went wrong. Why have we
lost our students? More importantly: How can we get them back? Hannah
Beach, a celebrated educator and specialist in the field of emotional
health, and Tamara Neufeld Strijack, clinical counsellor and academic
dean of the acclaimed Neufeld Institute, provide a thoughtful guide to
restoring the student-teacher relationship and creating the conditions
for change. Reclaiming Our Students empowers teachers with
relationship-based strategies to restore their leadership role and build
emotional safety and inclusion in the classroom..
You'll learn:
- How to build, feed, and protect the student-teacher relationship
- Why children are anxious or bossy, aggressive or checked out, and what
you can do to address these behavioural issues at their root
- How you can help students and classes shift their identity as the
"problem student" or "bad class"
- Experiential activities for students of all ages that restore
emotional health and build inclusive classrooms
Plus, you'll find special considerations and information for parents,
principals, counsellors, and home educators for building safety and
support in the learning environment.
Combining Hannah's groundbreaking experiential approach to creating
emotional health and community in the classroom with the Neufeld
Institute's insightful approach to building relationships and making
sense of children, Reclaiming Our Students is required reading for
teachers who not only want to understand and overcome daily challenges,
but also re-connect to their calling as educators.
