What does the child learn about himself through our eyes?
Ayala Gross, founder of "Ayala Educational Entrepreneurship," writes about how children learn about themselves through the eyes of adults and experiences of success and failure. She brings stories from the field, including a student who built a working ATV but defined himself through his learning difficulties, and offers ways of educational adaptation. The article ends with an offer for a lecture and intervention process.
Ayala Gross, founder of "Ayala Educational Entrepreneurship," writes about how children learn about themselves through the eyes of the adults around them and through their experiences of success and failure. She opens with the story of Yaniv Hiyon, a passenger on a Flydubai flight who acted to save the plane, and asks how coping strategies he developed in the past became available to him in the moment of truth. Gross brings examples from the field: a 21-year-old young man who built a functioning ATV but defined himself through his learning difficulties, and a student who said "I have five minutes to pass at least with jokes" because he expected to be thrown out of class. She describes how a teacher incorporated movement breaks and sensory aids, which helped students with attention deficit disorder concentrate. The article emphasizes the need for educational courage to allow students to test, make mistakes, and change, and suggests giving them tasks like planning an activity with a limited budget. At the end of the article, a lecture and intervention process using the SPL approach are offered.