Bending With The Wind | Episode 3
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Edutopia, an educational foundation founded by award-winning filmmaker George Lucas in 1991, tells us that 16% of all children and 40% of students diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder have oppositional defiant disorder also called ODD. These students exhibit behaviors that can include temper tantrums, a disregard for rules and authority and a propensity to annoy other students while claiming that they are victims not responsible for their misfortunes. These students can be vindictive as well.
Education experts tell us that negative reinforcement or punishments often exacerbate these feelings in students who suffer from ODD. 19th century naturalist and writer, Henry David Thoreau once said that “the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” Perhaps, our job as teachers is to unwrap what the kinds of desperation that our students are experiencing and tailor our approach to their oppositional behavior with compassion, positive reinforcement and strategies to help them self-soothe.
Today’s episode asks teachers to consider “bending with the wind” when approaching oppositional students in their classroom. Understanding and managing oppositional behavior within our classrooms with self-regulating activities that could include deep breathing exercises, meditation chimes, project-based assessments, coloring exercises and other forms of positive reinforcement might just help us enable the most oppositional of students to ‘bend with the wind” rather than break during the storm.
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Music:
Windswept by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4629-windswept
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Midnight Tale by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4710-midnight-tale
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Almost Bliss by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5032-almost-bliss
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Facile by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3733-facile
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Touching Moments One - Pulse by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4537-touching-moments-one---pulse
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Touching Moments Four - Melody by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4536-touching-moments-four---melody
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Winter Chimes by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4631-winter-chimes
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Crinoline Dreams by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3560-crinoline-dreams
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