As summer approaches, students need to work on skills to propel them through life toward success. Consider how you might help them work through these 6 R’s every day, all year, for as many years as possible. They’ll provide a fantastic payoff!!<\/p>\n
Resiliency<\/strong><\/p>\n Help students cope with stress and to develop empathy.<\/p>\n Suggestions: work on goal setting, problem solving and resolving conflicts<\/em><\/p>\n Resourcefulness<\/strong><\/p>\n Direct students to make age-appropriate decisions and solve problems on their own. Help them discover new ideas and ways to see situations.<\/p>\n Suggestions: work on daily problem-solving activities in real life or using problem-solving activities found in books for their age level.<\/em><\/p>\n Responsibility<\/strong><\/p>\n Guide students to be accountable, resourceful, persistent and to make decisions.<\/p>\n \u00a0 Suggestions: Give them jobs\/tasks and help them find subjects\/ideas to explore on their own through reading and asking questions.<\/em><\/p>\n Relationships<\/strong><\/p>\n Develop their ability to talk and work with people in their daily lives.<\/p>\n Suggestion: Guide them to interact appropriately with people of all ages they encounter in their neighborhood, in shops and on trips.<\/em><\/p>\n Respect<\/strong><\/p>\n Help students to listen and use mutual respect and take turns speaking in conversations.<\/p>\n Suggestions: Guide them to ask questions to learn more about others.<\/em><\/p>\n Reading<\/strong><\/p>\n Read, read, read, read, and read TO kids of all ages.<\/p>\n Suggestions: Give them time to read often, broadly across a wide variety of topics, and discuss what they learn from what they read.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As summer approaches, students need to work on skills to propel them through life toward success. Consider how you might help them work through these 6 R’s every day, all year, for as many years as possible. They’ll provide a fantastic payoff!! Resiliency Help students cope with stress and to develop empathy. Suggestions: work on\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,27,38,16,50],"tags":[241],"class_list":["post-909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ideas-websites","category-organizers-games-activities","category-support-for-families","category-teacher-tips","category-thinking-questioning-strategies","tag-6-life-long-skills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}