Bringing Our Souls to the Classroom

This book is about affirmation-based pedagogy and affirmation literacy. Affirmation/Mindfulness based pedagogy for learner-centered teaching can make a difference in the lives of our students and our children. Mindful communication is the key to building insight and professionalism when modeling behaviour to students and colleagues. This book offers appropriate self-awareness and communication skills development and understanding of thinking patterns to develop goal-orientation and insight-orientation strategies. These strategies can enhance understanding of what it means to be successful by analyzing both psychological and sociological theories on approaches to the significance/influence of mental health on overall well-being. Students can develop strategies to consider constructive options that effectively solve problems in daily life. This book offers appropriate self-awareness and communication skills development and information on affirmations in general. By programming ourselves to be more positive in and out of the class so to our students will develop emotional and cognitive awareness and understanding; bodily awareness and coordination and interpersonal awareness.