{"id":2225,"date":"2017-04-25T14:58:51","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T20:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/?p=2225"},"modified":"2017-04-26T11:19:23","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T17:19:23","slug":"recognizing-the-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/recognizing-the-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Recognizing the good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other night my niece spent the night at her favorite aunt\u2019s house. \ud83d\ude42 As I was helping her get ready for bed, we went through her normal night routine: brush the teeth, use the restroom, put on pajamas, and read a book. The final routine before lights out is for my niece to share everything she is grateful for.&nbsp;&nbsp; This nightly routine has occurred so many times there isn\u2019t anything new to it, but I find that every time we list the gratitude, I feel uplifted.&nbsp; To me this activity isn\u2019t about the list; it\u2019s about stopping the activity of a busy day and recognizing all the surrounding good.<\/p>\n<p>Since this time of the semester is so busy with projects, papers, tests, and more, what better way to remind us all of the good that is occurring and unfolding.&nbsp;&nbsp; As part of my end-of-the-semester routine, I have decided that I need to be giving more gratitude, and I think it is important to allow time for the students to do this as well.&nbsp; &nbsp;There are many ways to capture this in class, and here are a few that you can implement:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Allow students to write on the boards all of the good that has occurred this semester<\/li>\n<li>Have the students write letters to themselves reminding them what they learned this semester or what they want to remember from the course<\/li>\n<li>Encourage a gratitude session with the entire class where students share what they\u2019re grateful for in relation to the course and each other<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>By providing a moment to stop and reflect, we allow ourselves and our students to see all of the good and growth that has occurred over the semester.&nbsp; Feel free to post any strategies you use!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other night my niece spent the night at her favorite aunt\u2019s house. \ud83d\ude42 As I was helping her get ready for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching-tips"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5DI6r-zT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2225"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2229,"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225\/revisions\/2229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}