Now available- New Day Teacher's Manual! Includes music CD with 11 songs and teacher/parent manual with accompanying classroom and home activities.
These songs and curriculum activities were developed to teach hope to children and give hope to parents. They help children internalize positive “self talk” and anticipate a future of accomplishment and confidence. Within the manual, teachers/parents will find wonderful ideas and tools to reinforce the intended message of each song. For each song, the manual provides:
- an overview of the research behind the song
- how and when to use the song
- setting up the song
- accompanying literature
- teacher/parent reflections
- ideas for partnering with families
- dance and movement tips
- associated activities
- sheet music
As Dr. Martin Seligman clarified in his book, The Optimistic Child, it’s not the good and bad things that happen to children that determine their beliefs about themselves, others and the world in general. Rather it’s how children explain these events to themselves. This “explanatory style” is characterized by either optimism or pessimism. As parents and teachers, we can influence a child’s explanatory style both through modeling optimistic statements and by helping a child understand both positive and negative events. We can help a child understand that bad things are the exception and not the rule; and that bad times are temporary.
The songs on New Day are based on research on optimism within the relatively new field of Positive Psychology. Some of the key messages from this research include:
- A future orientation with specific goals
- A sense of anticipation
- Optimism puts new skills in reach
- Optimism stems from mastery motivation and persistence
These songs and curriculum activities will teach children how to better handle negative life experiences, develop a future orientation and develop positive feelings about his/herself and the world in general.
This product is available for purchase as a Teacher Manual/CD set or the music CD may be purchased separately.
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