How to Train Your Student to Boost Their Self Esteem

Look at this story.

 

Georgia was crying with tears coming down her cheeks.

I approached her and asked her what happened.

She told me that Amelia wanted her to apologise to Amelia three times.

Georgia apologised three times but Amelia rejected all her apologies.

 

I then told Georgia that she is a kind person because she apologised three times to Amelia. If Amelia rejected her apologies, the problem is not in her but in Amelia.

I also asked Georgia whether she agreed with my statement that she is a kind person.  

Georgia nodded her head and said yes in between of her sobbing.

 

I explained to Georgia that Amelia was rude to her by rejecting her apologies based on Amelia’s requests.

I said to Georgia, ”You do not deserve to be treated rudely by Amelia.”

 

I tapped my left shoulder using my right hand and then said, ”Georgia, you are a kind person.” After that I told Georgia to tap her shoulder and say to herself, ”Georgia, you are a kind person.”

Georgia tapped her shoulder and said, ”Georgia, you are a kind person.”

I also told Georgia to tap her shoulder and say to herself, ”Georgia, you do not deserve to be treated rudely by Amelia.”

Georgia did what I advised her to do.

I then asked Georgia, ”Do you feel better now?”

Georgia nodded her head and I saw that her sob went down a lot.

 

I then encouraged Georgia to pick a fun activity to do.

Georgia then told me that she wanted to build walls using plastic building toys.

Georgia’s facial expressions showed me that she completely forgot about her problem.

She played enthusiastically and smiling when I was building the walls together with her.

©Tina Adi

Teamwork

Today's thought is about 'Teamwork'.

We have to remember that we live on this earth together. It means that we are sharing this earth with others.

The word teamwork by itself contains two words which is team and work.

We need to question ourselves whether we are contributing our work to the team efforts or not.

As a leader, we need to be more careful to lead and direct our team. 

It is important that everyone in the team have a healthy body and mind.

Example:

Some people trip others up to get what they want.

Explanation:

That example shows that there is no teamwork.

Another example:

A leader deceives one or more people in the team to get a certain result.

Explanation:

A leader is the head of the team.

If the leader deceives the team, the leader is destroying the team spirit.

Self-reflection: 

What will we do as a team member or as the leader of a team to maintain the team spirit?

©Tina Adi

THINGS THAT EDUCATORS DON'T DO

Being an educator means he or she is always aware to be a role model for children. 

While in front of children, Educators are not supposed to do the things that are listed below :

• sit down on a table. 

• eat any food that fell down on a table even though it landed on the table less than a minute (or ten seconds!).
• wipe their wet hands on their clothes after washing their hands.

• call a child's name using the name of the country of their ancestry.

©Tina Adi

HOW TO STOP COMPLAINTS QUICKLY

Back then I was a Head of Department of Early Childhood, an Acting Early Childhood and Primary School Principal and a Primary School Principal in international and national schools in Indonesia, I used to handle complaints from parents. 

I succeeded in softening the complaints by listening their complaints attentively and then waiting until they (parents) finished talking.  After that I would say, "I am sorry about that". Then I promised them to find out what caused it to happen and then to get back to them as soon as possible to sort out all the problems. I also encouraged them to complaint to me if they were not happy with the results or conditions that occurred during that time.

To cut a long story short, I could reduce complaints that occured or might occur by delivering what I promised to them (parents),  making myself available to listen to their complaints respectfully and solving the problems that occurred as soon as possible.

©Tina Adi

BE AWARE OF SOME TYPES OF LEADERSHIP STYLES

When we are a newcomer in an organisation or company, we have no idea why our colleagues are doing this and that. Most of the time people are responding to the leadership style in the workplace.

Here are some tips to understand the workplace environment:

• Humiliate and crush leadership style

This style is absolutely against the psychological, professional, development and  wellbeing their subordinates.

• Lip service leadership style

It feels nice in the beginning, but it will be destructive at a  certain point.

• No communication leadership style

This leadership style will cause frustration to their subordinates because communication is important.

• Handball the problem leadership style

This leader has a tendency to handball the problem to their subordinates inappropriately. This leadership style is enjoying their position, reward (salary) and facilities, but not the responsibility as a leader.

©Tina Adi

BOREDOM CAN CAUSE ANXIETY, UNCONTROLLABLE BEHAVIOURS AND INJURIES

Based on my observation as an Outside School Hours Care (OSHC) Educator at a variety of services, I witnessed bored children were anxious and they did not know what to do. They came to me every 10 minutes and asked me about the time until they were picked up by their parents.

Sometimes some of them endangered themselves by going to the places that were not safe for them and out of bounds.
Most children could not do some risk assessments before playing.

Boredom can cause children to do unsafe activities. This might cause injuries to themselves. Example: children went to the bushes area that is out of bounds without asking permission from their educators. They (children) might forget that snakes can be in the bushes area and there are deadly snakes in Queensland, especially during mating season. There maybe other types of reptiles there, as well.

How to help children to overcome their boredom?
The best way is to redirect them (children) to do some fun and safe activities before their boredom escalated.
It is important for educators to know what caused the boredom. For example, if a child's best friend does not attend the service, often the child will be bored. Understanding this, the educator will provide those children who are missing their friends with activities to redirect them to focus on positive and safe activities.

I could see that most of the children who are attending the OSHC program need guidance and direction on how to enjoy their play in a safe environment.

It will be better if the service also provides a variety of decent toys and tools for children to play with.

Sometimes bored children might yank their peers or educators' chain to get rid of their boredom. Educators need to be aware of this. Educators need to be careful so that their emotions will not kick in as a result of a child's negative behaviours.

Educators need to guide the victims of the harassment to be calm, So that they can think clearly in order to act appropriately.

The key to create a boredom free and safe environment for children is educators supervise properly, observe actively, stay focus on the task and step in at the right time to minimise any children's behaviours that may trigger unwanted conflicts.

©Tina Adi

A Multicultural Food Idea, About Japan

Sushi Making

Ingredients:
Sushi rice:
• ½ kg of sushi rice
• 2 dessert spoons of raw sugar
• a pinch of salt
• 5 dessert spoons of sushi seasoning

Filling:
• 5 sausages

Note: filling can be changed according to your taste.
You can use a can of tuna or cucumbers or carrots or fried finger chicken nuggets or beef floss, etc.

Sushi wrappers:
5 sheets of seaweed for sushi (nori)

For serving:
• soy sauce for sushi
• Japanese mayonnaise

How to make sushi:

• Put a piece of seaweed (the shiny side down) on a chopping board or a flat plate.

• Cover it with an even layer of seasoned sushi rice. 

• Put the filing on top of the rice closest to you according to your taste. 

• Hold the seaweed, rice and filling and then roll it away from you. 

• Squeeze the sushi roll tight so that the filing and the rice will stick together. 

• Cut the sushi roll according to your taste.

• Ready to be served


Sushi rice can be changed with mashed potatoes if you cannot eat rice

How to make mashed potatoes:
• Slice the 5 potatoes into 4 to 6 pieces each making them easy to steam and mash.
• Steam the cut potatoes until they are soft (about 10 minutes).
• Mashed them down.
• Let them cool down. 

• Ready to be used

©Tina Adi