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IF YOU DONT FEED THE TEACHERS THEY EAT THE
STUDENTS!

• By Neila A. Connors, Ph.D.
• 4897 Corlett Street
• Tallahassee, Florida 32303
• neilaconnors_at_comcast.net
• 850-562-1959

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  Parsons-Braswell at
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• GUIDELINES FOR OUR TIME TOGETHER (100-300)
• Be comfortable,
• Feel FREE to share and/or,
• ASK QUESTIONS,
• Depart with ONE THOUGHT or IDEA,
• BE PROUD TO BE AN EDUCATOR!

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• Lets talk about the session
• AMEN FACTOR
• My 1/3, 1/3, 1/3 style
• Need a SELF-ESTEEM Boost?
• My one GOAL for the workshop

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• The BEST teacher is the one who NEVER forgets
  what it is like to be a STUDENTthe BEST
  principal is the one who NEVER forgets what it is
  like to be a TEACHER.
• N.A.Connors

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CARING IS A SKILL

• The beaver is very skilled at its craft. It
  knows exactly what to do to fix a dam.
• The last thing a beaver needs is someone on the
  bank shouting out dam instructions. author
  unknown

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YOUR FIRST ASSIGNMENT

• GET A BLANK PIECE OF PAPER AND
• DRAW A PICTURE OF A PIG KEEP YOUR EYES ON YOUR
  OWN PAPER

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REVIEW YOUR DRAWING WITH A FRIEND (real or
imaginary)

• WHERE DID YOU DRAW THE PIG ON YOUR PAPER?
• At the top You are positive and
  optimistic
• In the middle You are a realist
• At the bottom You are a pessimist

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IN WHICH DIRECTION DID YOU DRAW YOUR PIG?

• FROM THE LEFT You are a traditionalist,
  friendly, and remember important dates.
• FROM THE RIGHT You are active and dont
  remember the important dates.
• FROM THE FRONT You are direct and do not back
  down from confrontation.
• FROM THE REAR You want to go home right NOW!

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HOW MANY DETAILS DID YOU DRAW ON YOUR PIG?

• VERY DETAILED You are outspoken and like to be
  VERY involved in everything.
• NO DETAILS You are a risk-taker.

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DID YOU DRAW EARS ON YOUR PIG?

• The size of the ears reflect how good of a
  listener you arethe biggerthe better listener.

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HOW MANY LEGS DOES YOUR PIG HAVE?

• TWO LEGS You are open to change.
• FOUR LEGS You are set in your ways and may be
  known as stubborn.
• NO LEGS You are indecisive.

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WHAT IS THE LENGTH OF THE PIGS TAIL? SHOW YOUR
NEIGHBOR.

• THE LENGTH OF THE TAIL REFLECTS THE QUALITY OF
  YOUR SEX LIFE. THE LONGER THE TAIL THE BETTER
  THE

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OKAY LETS DISCUSS WHAT IS IMPORTANT IN
FEEDING OTHERS

• DO YOU HAVE THE NEED TO FEED?
• THE NEED TO BE FED?
• HUNGRY ALL OF THE TIME?
• SATIATED?
• A SNACKER?
• IS YOUR PLATE ALWAYS FULL? OF WHAT?

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WHY DID YOU DECIDE TO BECOME AN EDUCATOR?

• The accolades and recognitions?
• Summer vacations?
• THE MONEY?
• WHAT?

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THE STUDENTS AND HELPING THEM LEARN?

• Students do not CARE how much you KNOW until they
  KNOW how much you CARE!

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LEARNING MUST BE BASED UPON

• Learning how to learnyou cant build a house if
  you dont have the skills or the floor-plan.
• The characteristics of students.
• A variety of teaching strategies.
• Relevance.
• How different students learndifferent does not
  mean deficient.
• A FAILURE IS NOT FATAL belief system.

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VARIABLES THAT AFFECT LEARNING

• Committed teachers and administrators
• Attitudes
• Climate
• Success
• Diversity
• Motivation
• Classroom management
• Involvement
• Consistency
• Thinking
• Positive reinforcement
• Attendance
• Self-concept

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• Even if the students life away from school is
  bleak and miserable, she/he will work if what
  she/he finds in school is satisfying. William
  Glasser

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• GREAT SCHOOLS FOCUS ON
• MMotivation
• AAttitude
• GGreatness
• IInstructional Strategies
• CClimate where EVERYBODY is SOMEBODY

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WHAT IS THE CLIMATE OF YOUR SCHOOL?

• Do all students get recognized?
• Do teachers speak to each other and take time to
  talk about learning?
• Do you believe FAILURE IS NOT FATAL?
• Is your school INVITING?
• Do all students have at least ONE ADULT in the
  building they could go to for assistance?
• Is there a climate of RESPECT and RELATIONSHIPS?

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The BEST Faculties SPEND

• Only 5 of their time discussing PROBLEMS
  (quacking) and
• 95 of their time discussing
• SOLUTIONS.
• ARE YOU A SOLUTION-FINDER
• OR PROBLEM-CREATER?

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QUALITIES OF A GREAT PERSON

• The talent to care and be concerned for others.
• An ATTITUDE of GRATITUDE.
• A desire to be successful.
• A feeling of good physical and emotional health.
• The skill to THINK logically.
• The gift to have fun and LAUGH!
• The capability to handle stress.

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BELIEFS THAT CAUSE STRESS

• Work is a struggle.
• The end product is more important than the
  experience.
• Doing and having are more important than BEING.
  We are HUMAN BEINGSnot HUMAN DOINGS.
• There is NOT enough TIME to get everything done.
• Quantity is more important than quality.
• In-laws!!!!!! ?

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The achievements of an organization are the
results of the combined effort of each
individual. Vince Lombardi
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• WE ALL NEED TO BE FED FIGURATIVELY AND
  LITERALLY!
• What are your faculty meetings like?

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• SOME DAYS YOU ARE THE BIRD
• SOME DAYS YOU ARE THE WINDSHIELD.

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ACTAffective Care for TEACHERS

• What happens in your school to take care of one
  another?
• How do you FEED yourself?
• What activities make teachers feel special in
  your school?
• What can you do more of (or begin) to make sure
  EVERYONE is being FED?

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BASIC APPROACHES TO COPING WITH STRESS

• ORGANIZE YOURSELF.
• CHANGE THE SCENE.
• CHANGE YOUR MIND.
• BUILD UP YOUR STRENGTH.

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What comes from a person when they are squeezed
shows what is inside of him/her. Wayne Dyer
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The PURPOSE of life, after all, is to live it,
to TASTE experience to the utmost, to reach out
eagerly and without fear for newer and richer
experiences. Eleanor Roosevelt
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It is amazing what can be accomplished when
nobody cares about who gets the
credit. Robert Yates
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• You wouldnt worry so much about what other
  people thought if you realized how seldom they
  do Eleanor Roosevelt

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NOAHS ARK

• Everything we learned. WE learned from NOAHS
  ARK

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LESSON ONE

• DONT MISS THE BOAT

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LESSON TWO

• REMEMBERWE ARE ALL IN THE SAME BOAT.

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LESSON THREE

• Plan ahead. It wasnt raining when NOAH built
  the ark.

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LESSON FOUR

• Stay Fit. When youre 600 years old, someone may
  ask you to do something really BIG!

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LESSON FIVE

• Dont listen to critics just get on with the job
  that needs to be done.

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LESSON SIX

• Build your future on HIGH GROUND.

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LESSON SEVEN

• For safetys saketravel in pairs.

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LESSON EIGHT

• Speed isnt always an advantage. The snails were
  on board with the cheetahs.

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LESSON NINE

• When you are stressed----FLOAT a while.

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LESSON TEN

• Remember the ARK was built by amateursthe
  TITANIC by professionals.AND

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LESSON ELEVEN

• No matter the stormthere is always a rainbow
  waiting.

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• AND COMPLETING OUR LESSONS WE LEARN FROM OUR
  DOGS PHILOSOPHY

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The reason a dog has so many friends is that he
wags his tail instead of his tongue.
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If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is
that certain dogs I haveknown will go to heaven,
and very, very few persons.- James Thurber
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There is no psychiatrist in the world like a
puppy licking your face.- Ben Williams
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Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies,
quite unlike people who are incapable of pure
love and always have to mix love and hate.-
Sigmund Freud
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We give dogs time we can spare, space we can
spare and love we can spare.  And in return,
dogs give us their all. It's the best deal man
has ever made. - M. Acklam
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A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and
to turn around three times before lying down.-
Robert Benchley
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A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you
more than he loves himself.- Josh Billings
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If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die
I want to go where they went.- Will Rogers
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Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive
evidence that you are wonderful.- Ann Landers
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Anybody who doesn't know what soap tastes like
never washed a dog.- Franklin P. Jones
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The average dog is a nicer person than the
average person.- Andy Rooney
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Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our
lives whole.- Roger Caras
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Ever consider what our dogs must think of us? I
mean, here we come back from a grocery store with
the most amazing haul -- chicken, pork, half a
cow.  They must think we're the greatest hunters
on earth!- Anne Tyler
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My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo
is up to 3.00 a can. That's almost 21.00 in dog
money.- Joe Weinstein
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If your dog is fat, you aren't getting enough
exercise.
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Dogs need to sniff the ground it's how they keep
abreast of current events.  The ground is a giant
dog newspaper, containing all kinds of
late-breaking dog news items, which, if they are
especially urgent, are often continued in the
next yard.- Dave Barry
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I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members
of a weird religious cult.- Rita Rudner
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My goal in life is to be a person as good as my
dog already thinks I am.
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If you think dogs can't count, try putting three
dog biscuits in your pocket and then giving Fido
only two of them.- Phil Pastoret
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If you pick up a starving dog and make him
prosperous, he will not bite you that is the
principal difference between a dog and a man.-
Mark Twain
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HOW DID WE DO?

• TAKE A MINUTE TO REFLECT AND THINK OF ONE
  IDEA/ACTIVITY YOU WILL LEAVE WITH TODAY. SHARE
  WITH A NEIGHBOR OR YOURSELF.

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DID I MEET MY GOAL? EVERYONE IS LEAVING
WITH ONE NEW THOUGHT OR IDEA? DOES ANYONE HAVE
TO STAY AFTER FOR REMEDIATION? HAVE A
WONDERFUL YEAR! PEACE!
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The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit
on a porch and swing with, never say a word, and
then walk away feeling like it was the best
conversation you've ever had.