Monday, September 29, 2025

Lesson 5 - COURSE REVIEW: Positive Communication for Educational Settings, including Toxic Positivity, Anti-Fragility and Researching Diverse Contexts

Part 1 of the"Positive Communication" course  (The" Pedagogy" Part)  includes:

  • Understanding essential principles of positive communication
  • Reflecting on your own experience and understanding of these principles
  • Considering how a teacher can use these principles to improve teaching and learning
  • Conducting research to analyze how a school (or other organization) can use principles of positive communication to improve teaching and learning, with a focus on leadership, teachers or learners
  • Writing an academic essay to share both research findings and personal reflection

Let's have a thorough review:

STEP ONE: 

Learn and Practice: The Sunshine Model


STEP TWO: 

Relate these principles to your own life experience

STEP THREE: 

Know the Star Model: Additional 9 Principles of Positive Communication

STEP FOUR: 

Reflect on "Teacher Talk" and the power of self-reflection in teaching

STEP FIVE: 

Avoid: Toxic Positivity


STEP SIX: 

Teach Students: Anti-Fragility

1. Become Anti-Fragile


2. Anti-Fragile: How to Use Suffering to Get Stronger


STEP SEVEN: 

Complete an individual academic essay

Research/Learn/Reflect/Articulate - How to Apply Principles of "Positive/Productive Communication in Educational Settings" to the Educational Context of Your Choice
  • Choose a topic from the assignment guidelines or your own interests/experience
  • Conduct initial research using journal articles, library books, online search and A.I. tools
  • Write a complete draft to organize your research according to the outline in the assignment guidelines
  • Attend the mandatory writing workshop lesson on Tuesday, 21 October at 3:30 p.m.
  • Attend an optional writing consultation with Tim between 22 October and 5 November for feedback on your essay draft
  • Submit your final individual essay draft to Moodle (Turn-it-in) on or before the deadline
to complete the assignment preparation survey 
before midnight on Friday, 3rd October 2025

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