Pro-Child Checklist

Make sure each of these is done at least once a day.

1. Invite students to tell a joke or read a riddle out loud.

2. Make sure students have plenty of time to read books they choose.

3. Invite students to visit the library and bring back an amazing fact.

4. Read aloud from a variety of texts: chapter books, poems, newspaper articles, picture books, joke books.

5. Ask children to volunteer information about someone who was helpful–within the classroom or elsewhere in the school.

6. Ask children to volunteer information on something good that happened this day. If a child can’t do this, ask yourself why not.

7. Ask children to volunteer information on how the day could be improved tomorrow.

8. Find a way to send a positive vibe to the most annoying child in the class.

9. At least once a week invite a child to be “Teacher for 15 Minutes,” and learn from the way they parody you.

10. Send short note home to at least 3 households, recounting something good that happened for and with their child

11. Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.