Sllid eshow based on a workshop and workbook training for teachers and any one working with students in today. Bring mindfulness and compassion to the classroom or any relationship. With the new consent changing curriculum and attacks on education everywhere, students are not given many opportunities to learn about life and themselves which is all they need to learn in order to be happy joyful productive passionate people. These techniques can lead any subject to a more meaningful experience.

1. Bring
Compassion,
Connection
and Life to the
Classroom
Sherry Noland, B.S. M.Ed.

2. Sherry Noland, B.S. M.Ed.
Teacher, Author, Speaker
15 years teaching at risk students
working towards bringing compassion
To schools
Compassion
Connection
life in action

3. Introduction
 Compassion, Connection and Life development in the
modern classroom has lost its p lace . Taken over by set
lesson plans, testing and data collection. All of which does
not take into consideration the student or teacher as
receptacle providers of learning.
 Compassion means bringing ones heart to the class along
with unconditional understanding of any issue that might
need to be addressed
 Connection means making the classroom environment one
of meaning and life.
 Life means giving the student an identity and role in
planning and implementing the lessons.

4. Fear to Dialogue
 Imagine that all students had a place where they feel safe to
express and put an end to bulling
 Free to discuss their lives and ask questions that they are
curious about or concerned about.
 This workshop helps those that work with groups to create an
environment of safety and collaboration of ideas in learning
 How to deal with the at risk children and the saboteurs
meeting the needs of all involved.
Effectively and quickly using Non Violent Communication
Techniques.
 Create quality lessons based on compassion aligned with any
curriculum

5.  Dealing with truth
 Listening to the needs of
students
 Lessons based on these
needs not testing

6. Classroom Design
 Students interacting
 Blended abilities
 Guiding through questions
 What serves the students best interest
 Democracy in the class

7. Compassion

8. Establishing the environment of learning
Students must feel safe to explore
Student driven classroom “rules”
Teacher guides lessons based on any
curriculum
Creating the rules as the students let you know
what they would like.
Surprising they are very articulate.

9. Connection
 Respect (privacy)
 Honesty
 No, put down no negativity towards each
other
 No Laughing at people
 No judgment
 Open mind
 Trust
 The right to stay quite and speak when
ready.

10. Lesson based on life
 Age differences
 Reflections built into lessons
 Student lead class
 To teach is to learn
 Teacher becomes guide
 As educators, we know that students come to the
classroom with a wealth of knowledge to share and a
plethora of experiences that contribute to their
academic environment. They are not empty vessels to
to be filled, instead, the positive exchange of
experiences and knowledge promotes growth all in the
the classroom . . . the students and teachers alike.
Monique Pearson, 11th Grade Special Education English Teacher

11. Poetry
Mirror
Shattered mirror of her former self
She’s broken like her fragile heart
Slowly she’ll pick up the pieces all herself
And reassemble a better outlook
A better outlook, that’s all she needs
Grade 10 student
Safe expression

12. Connections to others
Working together Blended ages
 Allowing the teens
to work with
younger students
 Student driven
lessons guided by
teachers.

13. When you give others permission to shine they in
turn go out to others and so on and so on .
Life building
Meaning and Purpose

14. Meaning and Purpose
 Silence
 Stillness
 Inner knowing
 Deeper
Connection
 Joy
 Creativity
 Honoring self

15. Education is not the amount of information
that we put into your brain and runs riot
there, undigested, all your life. We must
have life building, man making, character
making assimilation of ideas. If you have
assimilated five ideas and made them your
life and character, you have more education
than any man who has got by heart a whole
library Swami Vivekananda

16. Bringing life to our students
A creative free
flowing forum of learning
Expanding
our ideas
of what
schools
should
look like
and
prepare
students
for all
life
Bringing the 21st century and all we
know
to the process of learning.
Focus, creativity joy and purpose to
our students.

17. For More information
Contact Sherry Noland
Naturalcelebration@gmail.com