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Eight essential lif skills that schools can teach our kids

A)
I
learned
at
an
early
age
from
my
mother
that
there
was
more
to
school
than
reading, writing, arithmetic and lunch. She was a teacher. I was an eager student of
the academic sort. That didn't impress her. She told me later it was clear I was ready
to read when I was 4, but she refused to teach me because I needed more work on my
social skills.
B)
She
will
turn
93
at
the
end
of
this
month.
I
am
tempted
to
call
and
ask
her
to
evaluate how I turned out, but I fear the answer. My life has been a lot of reading and
writing,
with
some
arithmetic.
Even
as
a
parent
I
rarely
considered
how
well
my
children's schools were teaching life skills that went beyond what is assessed under
No Child Left Behind.
C) The habits of the heart are probably learned almost as much at school as at home.
But which ones can we reasonably expect teachers to address? What should we look
for to make certain these immeasurable but invaluable traits are being reinforced?
D) With help from Local Living Editor Liz Seymour, whose children are just starting
school,
I
came
up
with
eight
essential
life
skills.
I
sought
expert
opinion
on
their
importance and how to teach them.

E) Here are mine, in no particular order:
F)
Organization.
Linda Allen, a star math teacher in Arlington, said helping students
absorb
a
sense
of
structure
is
key
to
her
middle
school's
success.

good
teacher,
regardless of the content area, has today's main idea and homework in the same area
of
the
room
every
day.
That
teacher
reminds
students
every
day
to
copy
the
information down at the start of the class, and gives them time to do that.
parents
timely
feedback
about
work
completion

that
intervention
can
happen
sooner rather than later.
G) A related lesson is deferring gratification. Psychologists Angela L. Duckworth and
Martin
E.P.
Seligman,
by
seeing
what
happens
when
children
have
the
choice
of
a
dollar
today
or
two
dollars
next
week,
have
concluded
that
self-discipline
and
self-denial are keys to success. Katherine Bradley, president of the Washington-based
CityBridge
Foundation,
says
it

sticking
with
something
even
if
it's
boring,
pushing yourself to finish even if it's a long assignment.
H)
Music.
Kenneth
J.
Bernstein,
a
much-admired
social
studies
teacher
at
Eleanor
Roosevelt High School
in
Prince George's
County, is
also
a piano player.
do not
think every child needs to learn to sing or play an instrument,
need
to
learn
how
to
listen,
because
different
kinds
of
music
may
require
different
kinds of listening. In a sense, being exposed to several kinds of music is like learning
a second language: It begins to empower one to learn further on one's own, because
one has gone beyond the limitations of what one grows up with.
I)
Allen said
students
should
also
learn how to
be a
good audience.

a child can
hold it together in the company of hundreds of their peers, they can hold it together
for any event,
J)
Teamwork.
Games aren't the only way to learn how to cooperate with others toward
a shared goal, but for many students such contests have lifelong importance. Frazier
O'Leary teaches Advanced Placement English, one of the toughest courses at Cardozo
High School in the District; he is also the baseball coach.
high school students to understand the value of working together until they grow up
and realize that teamwork is essential to success,
K)
Exercise.
Sarah Melanie Fine, a writer, went for a run every morning when she was
teaching in a D.C. school. She needed the exercise to survive tough days. Her students
often did not have the same chance.
the ever-growing end-all, kids desperately need time where they're using their bodies
and learning a different kind of discipline,
but
it
clears
the
head
for
dividing
fractions,
declining
nouns
and
other
feats
of
concentration.
L)
Friendship.
Mike Feinberg, co- founder of the Knowledge Is Power Program charter
schools, which
emphasize character, said
an essential
ingredient of learning to be a
friend is what some call social intelligence or emotional intelligence. It includes
giving
in
to
peer
pressure,
becoming
self-aware
and
using
that
self-awareness
to
self-adjust
as
necessary,
he
said.
He
acknowledges
that
many
people
think
this
is
something
parents
should
teach,
but
sometimes
they
don't,
and
students'
futures
depend on it.
M
)
Arguing.
Bernstein
has
a
favorite
trick
for
teaching
this
correctly:

remember
once asking students
to
prepare a debate, three for the affirmative and three for the
negative. When they came into class and I checked that they were prepared, I made
them argue the other side, not the one they had prepared. With the exception of the
class president, who as a politician did not trust me and thus had prepared both sides,
they
flopped. And in
that
failure they learned
an important
lesson:
One is
far more
effective
in
debate
and
discourse
when
one
has
thought
through
both
sides
of
an
argument.
N)
Thinking critically.
I remember that my favorite teacher when I was in high school,
Al
Ladendorff,
encouraged
our
American
history
class
to
criticize
the
textbook.
I
wondered: Was that legal? Much later I realized the contrarian habits he taught were
vital. I am a better writer, a better voter and a better parent for learning to examine
popular assumptions and judge if they are correct.
O
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