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Educating the Whole Child
___ Brain Gym: Movement in the Door to Learning
- Amy Arrendell
Learn simple movement activities for the classroom that activate and integrate eyes, ears and the brain hemispheres for greater ease in learning. These Brain Gym activities also relax muscles and restore a calm nervous system to support the whole child.
Amy Arrendell, M.Ed. is a licensed Brain Gym instructor living in Asheville, NC. She has been teaching Brain Gym to teachers throughout the eastern US for 10 years. Amy combines experiential education, natural development and Brain Gym to provide an insightful and rewarding experience for those who work with children.
___ Spirituality - Not Just for Indigo Children - Susan Dermond
It is important for children to have inner experiences, but what if they cannot calm down enough to allow this to happen? Learn techniques that help children focus and develop spiritual receptivity. Activities that give children an uplifting experience will also be demonstrated. Come prepared to be playful!
Susan (Usha) Dermond, M.A., M.L.S.; Author, is the founder (1997) and director of Living Wisdom School in Portland, Oregon. The author of Calm and Compassionate Children, A Handbook, published in 2007, she formerly taught both elementary and secondary grades in public schools and at the Living Wisdom School at Ananda Village, California.
___The Davis Dyslexia Correction Programs; Medication-Free Strategies & Tools to Allow Your Child to Overcome Dyslexia and ADD/ADHD - - Randee Garretson,
The Davis Dyslexia Correction Programs address the cause of the learning disabilities and give your child the tools and strategies to learn the way he/she learns best so he/she can succeed in social, physical and educational settings. Because the programs affirm the individual's natural talents and strengths, it increases self-confidence and boosts self-esteem.
Randee Garretson, a Texas and Florida certified teacher of Reading and Language and Learning Disabilities, and a licensed facilitator for the Davis Dyslexia Correction Programs, will present information about the Davis™ model of dyslexia: What is dyslexia, what causes it, how can you recognize it, and what can you do about it?
___ Aligning with the Spirit Nature: Children and Poetry Writing - - - - Terri Glass,
This workshop introduces the topic of nature in children’s writing as a means for greater awareness of themselves and earth around them to enhance a sustainable future for the planet. Creative writing exercises will be given to create a sense of wonder and empathy of all living creatures, followed by discussion of programs that can be implemented in educational settings.
Terri Glass, Director of the California Poet in School Program, is writer, poet and former biologist. She heads the California Poet in the School program in Marin County, CA and has been active in the River of Words Program that fosters environmental awareness with creative writing. She is the author of award winning poetry & music CD, The Body of the Living Future and Language of the Awakened Heart, a poetry guidebook for classroom teachers.
Spiritual Preparations of the Teacher - Catherine McTamaney,
Based on the Montessori theory, this session is about preparing ourselves to be with children. It's based loosely on her book, The Tao of Montessori.
Catherine McTamaney is on the faculty in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Peabody College, Vanderbilt University.
___ Pathway to Wisdom - Tom Peterson
Wonder represents a large piece of learning that has, by in large, been abandoned in schools in favor of information. Children do not suffer for lack of information, but they do suffer when learning is stripped of awe and wonder. This paper describes how wonder breaks down children’s resistance to conventional forms of learning and clears a pathway to wisdom.
Tom Peterson, Ed.D., teaches Foundations of Philosophy, History, Cultural Studies, and Critical Issues as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Professional Studies, as the University of West Georgia.
___ HeartSmarts: Teaching and Learning from Children about the Heart - Robert A. Reese
Children are naturally a-tuned to their hearts—and to the hearts of others. Their open, intuitive and imaginative qualities make them ideal students of what might be called heart-based learning. This session presents a new pre-school program developed by the Institute of HeartMath to teach children about the relationship between their hearts, minds, and bodies and spirits.
Dr. Robert A Rees, Ph.D., is Director of Education and Humanities at the Institute of HeartMath. He has taught literature and the humanities at various universities, including UCLA and UC Santa Cruz.
On Wings of Love: Children’s Intuition, Quantum Holography and the Future. - Robert A. Reese
Can children literally communicate their love to others who will live in the future? Recent research suggests both that our intuitive processes have access to a field of information not limited by the boundaries of time and space and that it is possible for us to communicate across the liminal threshold that divides the present from the future. Laboratory studies suggest that some aspect of our perceptual apparatus is continuously scanning the future, which may mean that the time symmetries commonly described by quantum physicists may also occur on macroscopic scales and in the realm of the human heart and brain. Includes children’s expressions of love to the future.
___ Making Your Own Sacred Story - Daniel Scott
This process is based on a guided story exchange in which participants working in pairs listen to, reflect on and respond to accounts of significant life moments as told by their partners bringing depth and meaning to life stories and the experiences they present.
Daniel Scott, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor in the School of Child and Youth Care, University of Victoria, BC, and has served as facilitator for this project after being asked to write a chapter on girls’ spirituality. His primary research focus is adolescent spirituality.
___ From Delight to Wisdom: Spiritual Gifts of Poetry
- Ann Trousdale, & Jacqueline Bach,
It was Robert Frost who said that poetry goes from delight to wisdom. Children have a natural affinity for poetry: for rhyme, for rhythm, for the play of the imagination. In this session we shall invite the audience to participate in ways of using poetry to support children’s spiritual lives, leading them from delight to wisdom.
Ann M. Trousdale, Ph.D. is an associate professor at Louisiana State University, where she teaches courses in children’s literature and storytelling. She is also a deacon in the United Methodist Church. Her research interests include using children’s literature to support children’s spiritual lives and the oral interpretation of literature.
Jacqueline Bach is an assistant professor at Louisiana State University, where she teaches courses in secondary English Education. Her research interests are English education, literary theory, and young adult literature. She has taught high school English in Florida, North Carolina, and Oklahoma.
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