Re: From the Beginning and Moving On!

From: Michele Denton
Email: DENTX4@HOTMAIL.COM
Date: June 03, 2008

Comments

Keith, 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!) I know that alot of teachers know and try to be positiver, but (I can't remember the exact percentage) there is something like 77% of self negative talk in an adults mind and how do they move past this. This may be the barrier. It is difficult to be positive when while attempting to be positive with the children the teachers subconscious is sending messages of their own failures. This would make negative comments in the front of their mind.

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? I do think that what we do as adult is seen as a product not a process. It is a shame, since this is where the real value is, in the process. Everyone reaches a product in their own way making each product somewhat original. If the product is then judged, by the desired result of the person rating the product, then the product being rated would not match. I am not sure if they made sense when I put it into words. Sorry if confusing.