Re: From the Beginning and Moving On!

From: Tammie Donelson
Email: tammie_donelson@hotmail.com
Date: June 03, 2008

Comments

You asked, "If emotions drive attention, then why do we find it so difficult to provide real terms related to our personal emotions or to help label emotions for children? (i.e., joyful, ecstatic, pleased, happy, content, calm, etc.--please note I kept it to the positive ones!)

Is what we do as teachers, directors, parents, or friends a process too? Should our jobs/work be seen as process? Would we be more comfortable or "successful" if we viewed what we did as a process as opposed to a "product" or something we just do?

If we work toward producing a positve emotion for the child in order for the learning process to start, would we always try to PLEASE the child so that learning can happen?

As a parent, teacher, or an adult model, I think that it is important that when we are teaching the child an important skill or lesson, we want to make sure they are fully engaged so that the learning process will take place. Otherwise, we will be reteaching and reteaching and maybe the child will never "learn" but tolerate the task.