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Mindfulness from A to Z: Concepts, Practices, Resources and Tips for Health and Physical Educators
Get PDFMindfulness is a type of contemplative practice that presents opportunity to focus one’s attention on the present moment for reasons of personal health enhancement. As a construct, mindfulness is the conscious and nonjudgmental realization of one’s moment-by-moment thoughts and experiences. Mindfulness practices could be quite useful in helping to enhance an assortment of social and emotional health outcomes for educators and their students (Meiklejohn et al., 2012; Zenner, Herrnleben-Kurz, & Walach, 2014). The purpose of this paper is to provide health and physical educators with an overview of an assortment of mindfulness practices that have been used successfully in classrooms across a range of student populations, and to describe some of the benefits that are outcomes of these practices. An additional aim of this paper is to include an array of references and tips that might be of interest to teachers who would like to pursue the use of mindfulness in the classroom further
Blaming the Victim No More: African American Critiques of the Moynihan Report, 1965
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Why didn’t anyone tell us what it would really be like? How Experienced Secondary Teachers Make Sense of Their Role
Get PDFHistorically, teacher retention has been a more significant issue than teacher recruitment. This study looks at how teachers become “comfortable in their own skin.” To be successful in their chosen careers, teachers undergo a process of Teacher Identity Formation that blends one’s educational philosophy, teaching style, and personality. Finding one’s own voice, one that is less imitative of influential teachers from one’s past, occurs in those “Borderlands” where the personal and the professional meet, where who you are as a person and who you are as a teacher coalesce. Via an interview-based phenomenological study, this paper uses the cumulative wisdom of successful, experienced teachers to look at how they ultimately make sense of their position and overcome obstacles to identity formation. The findings may offer guidance to new teachers and teacher educators.  
