---

How Full is your Bucket? Part 3

 

How Full is your Bucket?  Part 3

 

            This section describes how some people are born negative.  It is better to avoid these kind of people (I agree).  Focusing on the positive can even improve the health of an individual and help with life’s challenging days.  However, you do have to individualize your positive reinforcements to each person and situation.

The author gives five strategies for increasing positive emotions.  You will need to prevent bucket dipping by giving out positive reinforcements.  You will need to shine a light on what is right by focusing on the good positive things that are going well in your life.  You need to make friends and give unexpectedly.  Lastly, you need to reverse the golden rule by individualize your positive interactions.

I thought the book was wonderful.  It makes you really want to focus on the positive since the results will be so much more encouraging.  Positive interactions make you feel good.  Giving positive interactions, according to the book, also make you feel better about your self.  Again, I will try to be more positive and watch what I say before I speak.

           

How Full is your Bucket? Part 2

            This section is how positive interactions can help productivity, safety, loyalty, and colleague relations.  Having positive interactions will make the working environment more pleasant for the employee and the customer.  Having positive interactions will make you feel better and the person you are encouraging.

            Negativity will cause people to have health problems and be counterproductive.  This negativity also will cost organizations a lot of money.  Within our culture, we tend to focus more on what needs to be improved rather than praise on what was do well.

            I will focus more on being positive since there could be more encouraging results.  I know when you feel your best you will perform better.  Again, I will try to focus on what I say and try to focus more on the positive than the negative. 

How Full is your Bucket? Part 1

How Full is your Bucket?  Part 1

           

            This section is about how negativity can damage a person physically.  The author explained how the North Koreans’ used negativity rather than torture with POWs with a 38% death rate.   The captors succeeded with negativity by using four primary tactics:  informing, self-criticism, breaking loyalty, and withholding all positive emotional support.

            By reading this first section, I feel I will be more careful when I speak.  Hearing negativity constantly could really damage a person.  I will try to focus on being more positive.

Craft Lessons part 2 – p. 79-92

Craft Lessons   part 2 – p. 79-92

 

            In this section Craft Lessons gives many different ideas that students could develop their craft.  Some of ideas included finding a focus, deciding where to begin, writing the no-time narrative, cutting what you don’t need, selecting the right lead, using imagery, varying length of sentences, the recurring line, writing low on the food chain, naming place or character, describing character,   and using interior monologue.

            This section is full of ideas for me to use in the classroom for developing the students’ writing.  The ideas were well explained and helpful.  I will have to implement them into our writing.

Craft Lessons part 1

Craft Lessons page 1-13

 

     The writing process could be visualized by conceiving, crafting, and correcting.  Teachers tend to spend the most time with their students in the conceiving and correcting stages.  However, crafting is probably the most difficult for students.  Crafting requires writers to make a lot of decisions on their own.  Writers also need time to write everyday to improve their skills.  Writers need a response to their writings.  Writers need to feel responsibility in their writings.  Writers need a variety of literature to read in order to be a good writer. 

        As a teacher, I am interested in what the book has to say about how to develop better crafting skills.  I do agree that the crafting is probably the most difficult part of the writing process.  I also do think students need the time to develop their writing skills.

Next page >>