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About Me

Location:
United States, Tallahassee, FL
Current organization:
The School of Arts and Sciences
Current role:
Counselor Educator
Gender:
Female
Areas of expertise:
Counseling, Life Coach, human behavior, Human developement, Child Developement, Teenagers
I am:
Activist, Business adviser, Connector, Educator/Teacher, Environmentalist, Idea generator, Life mentor, Parent, Performer, Writer/Editor
Associations:
American School Counseling Association ASCA
Languages:
English, French
My website links:
personal website
Universities:
Florida State University
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    A comment on Conversation: As a teacher, what kind of attitude would be desirable?

    Jun 7 2012: You are working withing a system that is very fixed. Teenagers appreciate HONESTY. Be very "straight-up" with them. It is ok to tell them that you do not agree with everything that you have to put them through. But explain to them that we have to learn to operate effectively in the societies of which we are a part. We have to play by the rules and if we don't agree with those rules, find a way to get them changed.
    Look very closely at where you might be able to do that yourself. (Example is the greatest teacher.)
    Carefully consider where you have some control over the situation and where you don't. Teach your students to do the same. Recognize that sometimes change and progress takes time.
    Most important: Be open and honest with them.
    Good luck!

  • A reply on Conversation: Shall we introduce ourselves?

    Jun 7 2012: Bless you, Rafi. May peace come quickly. Please let it be so. If people only realized how intimately we are all connected to one another.
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    A reply on Conversation: How would you inspire 700 youth for peace?

    Jun 7 2012: In my experience, millenials respond better to multimedia presentation, especially film. Teens always respond better to the voices of their peers than the voices of adults as they are going through the process of differentiation. Also, we as adults MUST respect the fact that the world in which are growing up is not the world in which we grew up. If we want to know how they want to be taught then all we have to do is ask them. :-)

  • A reply on Conversation: How would you inspire 700 youth for peace?

    Jun 7 2012: I'm having trouble finding it on FB. Is Rotary Youth Peace Forum the official FB page name?
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    A comment on Conversation: How would you inspire 700 youth for peace?

    Jun 5 2012: I teach guidance classes to K-8 students. When they reach 4th and 5th grade we do a whole unit on the Holocaust. I use the film Paperclips because it is appropriate for their age, and is very uplifting instead of getting mired down in the depth of the tragedy. What I tell them at the beginning of the unit is: "We, the adults in your lives, are always telling you to be kind to each other, to not call each other names, to treat differences with respect, etc. Now we are going to learn about the deep and broad reason WHY we tell you this." I use the Ladder of Prejudice from the Teaching Tolerance website, and we study the ways in which we, as individuals shape our own culture. By the time we finish the unit, they are very clear on why it is so vital to act with tolerance and in a peaceful way toward others. They have a clear understanding of what can happen if intolerance goes unchecked.
    To reach youth, movies are great. Media. But the most important thing is to treat them as equals and to BUILD RELATIONSHIPS. Connections.

    PLEASE, let me work with you on this, if you have the table space. I have run workshops with almost 100 middle-school students by myself before and created HUGE change. It is not easy to truly reach them in vast numbers, but totally possible if done in the right way. The youth think with their hearts. If it is emotional, they will take it in and remember it.

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