Teachers with Counselling Skills Can Adjust Better to The New Normal
1st September 2020
The day is not far away when a smooth reopening of schools will be a reality with large number of students following suit. This much awaited news will make students jump with joy as schools are their second homes, while teachers and friends being their second families. But the question is, how do teachers tackle this transition coupled with the ‘new normal’? How do teachers tackle the transition back to school? Teachers have a big role to play once institutions reopen as they h ...
Key Counselling Techniques to Support Inclusive Classroom Learners during Pandemic
21st August 2020
All children and young adults require support during times of stress and uncertainty, such as the one we are facing now with the spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. It is one of the essential teaching counseling skills of inclusive classroom teachers to help the children understand the changes and process their feelings in a better way. Individuals with autism may need additional support to process the news and adapt to the many changes that are happening around, as they may not have ...
Strategies for Managing Anger in Children
8th August 2020
Like other human emotions, anger too is a normal and healthy emotion. However, it becomes indeed difficult for many kids to recognize the difference between feeling angry and being aggressive. With absolutely no knowledge about how to deal with their emotions, the kids with their frustration and anger pent up, become defiant, disrespectful, and aggressive, often throwing temper tantrums. Childhood aggression such as fighting, spitting, and teasing must not be left unchecked as it can lead to ...
Counselling Skills Help Educators to Adapt and Modify Teaching
1st August 2020
In a technologically advanced age where students are portraying changing nature and temperament, it becomes a necessity for teachers to be equipped in specific counselling skills and approaches to manage the behavioural issues and tantrums and help them achieve their educational goals and reach their best potentials. So, exactly what kind of changes can counselling skills bring in an educator? When an educator undergoes training to become a school counsellor, he/she develops certain skills ...
3 Key Tips to Make Online Teaching Easier For Teacher Counselors
11th July 2020
We have all been suddenly thrown into the world of online learning; while the tech space can be an overwhelming space for teachers, confident professionals are adapting! From Zoom to Google Classroom, we can see teaching professionals occupying spaces that they might have only heard of before, yet they are trying their best to keep their connections with students growing through these mediums, with a few alternations in their student counselling techniques. Whether you are new to the tech wor ...
5 Ways to Add Social Emotional Learning to Your Lessons
26th June 2020
It is a known fact that children need to learn Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) skills to succeed both in the classroom as well as in the real world. Unfortunately, time proves to be the biggest enemy when it comes to including these necessary lessons in everyday classroom lessons. Here we have shared a few tips to help a teacher to school counselor seamlessly integrate Social-Emotional Learning into the classroom. Morning Madness Check-ins Teaching self-reflection at the beginning of ...