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Controversial student encouragement

  

Many student management systems ignore the well behaved students.

For all our good intentions, most of us get caught up in dealing with bad behaviour.

I no longer play that game. Kids like sweets stickers and other tokens. I seek opportunities to encourage good behaviour and ignore the bad behaviour.

The bad behaviour goes away and the good kids get constant acknowledgement.

I have plenty of critics who think that I should not be giving kids sweets. They argue for reward systems that involve paperwork and end of term prizes.

I say forget it. Kids live in the moment. Let them enjoy the moment.

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I was tagged today in the 25 random things meme in Facebook. I wrote up the 25 random things and posted it and duly tagged 25 others.

One of those others worked out that I had lived in Woomera during my childhod. She suggested that I look at some of he Facebook groups for Woomera.

I did. I joined the group of people who had been to school in Woomera.

In doing some research to write an intro, I used the google map for Woomera. The emotions that it envoked were almost overwhelming. Childhood memories came flooding back.

When was the last time you visited a child hood place that had significant meaning for you?