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November 15, 2016 By Eaton Academy Staff Leave a Comment

More on Becoming Your Personal Best

From the President:

“Eaton Academy serves students who benefit from a more customized model of education designed to meet their personal needs.” Those personal needs are academic, social, emotional, and physical.

In previous blogs, we introduced “B” for Befriend only those that bring out the BEST in you. Now it’s time to continue your journey of being your “Potential BEST” by engaging in the following activities specifically designed to meet your personal needs.

CONTINUED “Befriend” Activities:

Use your Facebook or Twitter account to interpret, analyze, differentiate, assess, and/or examine comments made by others. Determine whether they are positive or negative comments. Document your answers in your three-ring binder. V and K/T
- How do they make you feel?
- How could specific comments be reworded to be more constructive?
Discuss ways to handle yourself if a ‘friend’ says or does something that is hurtful to you. A
List and explain at least three ways to bring out the best in your friends. A and K/T
List and explain at least three ways to make sure you are “befriending” the people who bring out the best in you. A and K/T
Search YouTube and find examples of people in your age range making good choices about making friends. Show examples of people making poor choices about making friends.

V and K/T

The goal is to use activities that encourage you to think about how you make friends. Create your own activities that are not listed. Decide whether they are an auditory, visual or kinesthetic/tactile activity. It will help you learn what type of learning activity you prefer and how you naturally learn and absorb information.

LAST “Befriend” Activity

Create a “BEST” board that you can add to for a period of time. V and K/T
Take or display pictures of yourself with positive friends and role models. V and K/T
Write and display a short story of friendship. V and K/T
Draw and display scenes of friendship. V and K/T
Videotape a group interaction and analyze the verbal and non-verbal interactions. Note positive and negative comments. V, A, and K/T

Next week, we will provide “Excel” activities.

October 31, 2016 By Eaton Academy Staff Leave a Comment

The Journey to Being Your Potential BEST…

From the President:

“Eaton Academy serves students who benefit from a more customized model of education designed to meet their personal needs.” Those personal needs are academic, social, emotional, and physical.

In last week’s blog, “B” for Befriend, only those that bring out the BEST in you was introduced. You were to ask yourself these questions.

Do your friends inspire you or make you feel good about yourself?
Do the activities you engage in with your friends lead you to make good or bad choices?
Have those choices affected your life positively or negatively?
Are your friends “there for you” when you most need them?

Now it’s time to start your journey to being your “Potential BEST” by engaging in the following activities specifically designed to meet your personal needs.

This week, you are to complete these activities.

Highlight in yellow if the activity/task/strategy (verb is highlighted in red) is auditory, visual, or kinesthetic/tactile. These strategies will help you practice how to befriend those that bring out the BEST in you. Document your answers in your 3 ring binder.

Complete these tasks. Motivate yourself to choose good friends.

Individual tasks/activities

Choose one friend and note something he/she did or said that helped you through a difficult time in your life. (K/T)
Choose one friend and note something he/she did or said that hurt you or made you feel bad about yourself. K/T
Choose one trait or quality that you admire and would like to emulate. K/T
Create a “T” chart that lists these items. Compare and contrast. K/T

Small group tasks/activities

Role-play some of these actions that describe your feelings. A and K/T
Break into small groups and discuss these situations. A and K/T

Next week, we will provide more “Befriend” activities.

October 20, 2016 By Eaton Academy Staff Leave a Comment

Getting to Know Eaton Academy – Be Your Potential BEST Series

From the President:

Eaton Academy serves students who benefit from a more customized model of education designed to meet their personal needs. Personal needs are academic, emotional, social, and physical. We focus on the whole student and all that student needs to flourish, succeed, and reach his/her POTENTIAL BEST. Our BEST character education program, developed over ten years ago, is implemented daily. We focus on each letter in BEST for nine weeks, discussing, practicing, and implementing anti-bullying techniques. Students use these tenets and strategies to strengthen self-worth, confidence, and self-esteem. Follow our blog each week to see samples of our tenets, questions to ask oneself, and strategies designed to help students become their BEST!

B-Befriend only those who bring out the BEST in you.

Activities, strategies, interventions, and accommodations: How do you BEST learn information? Auditory: Do you need to hear it? Visual: Do you need to see it? Kinesthetic/Tactile: Do you need to manipulate it?

Auditory: A Visual: V Kinesthetic/Tactile: K/T

Ask yourself these questions? Document your answers.

Do your friends inspire you or make you feel good about yourself?
Do the activities you engage in with your friends lead you to make good or bad choices?
Have those choices affected your life positively or negatively?
Are your friends “there for you” when you most need them?

Next week we will post auditory, visual, and kinesthetic/tactile strategies to help you practice how to befriend those that bring out the BEST in you. Enjoy the journey on becoming your Potential BEST!

Bridgit Eaton-Partalis

President and Co-Founder