Educating the Whole Child: Top 5 Strategies for Educators « The Whole Child Blog « Whole Child Education

Educating the Whole Child: Top 5 Strategies for Educators « The Whole Child Blog « Whole Child Education:

Educating the Whole Child: Top 5 Strategies for Educators

by ASCD Whole Child Bloggers

In a teleseminar recorded earlier this week, Molly McCloskey, managing director of ASCD’s Whole Child Initiative, was interviewed by ASCD author and Rutgers University professorMaurice J. Elias. McCloskey shared information about specific initiatives and examples of how a whole child approach ensures that each child, in each community, is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged.

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In your role, whether you’re a teacher, administrator, counselor, school nurse, etc., there are five strategies you can start using now to support the whole child and begin closing the “believing-doing” gap.

1. Know your kids. You need to know them developmentally and relationally. You have to understand that 8-year olds are very different than nine-year olds, for example, and