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Confidence Building Exercise

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Sandra Greenwald (happy)

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Date Posted: 07:42:48 02/24/12 Fri

Besides writing a list of things I am good at and have difficulty with, I found that it helps to read a book before the exercise. For example, I chose 'Junkyard Wonders' by Patricia Polacco who happens to be dyslexic and master storyteller. The story is based on her life and each of the classmates she befriends in the story has something different about them. the teacher in the story wants them to seek out their "inner genius" that all of us have. She stresses that we should be proud of who we are. At the end of the story, I had the students I work with, write down in a paragraph what they think their "inner genius" is. Most of the students felt math and drawing were their best subjects. Many of the boys included playing soccer as well as basketball. Reading this particular story I find is a great icebreaker and less intimidating than asking a child to write their good and bad attributes.

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