Beyond Just Coping: Pursuing Balance for Educators and Parents

By Aili Pogust

What does it take for children to want to learn in your presence?

It requires pursuing balance among your physical, emotional, mental and spiritual bodies. When your four bodies are in balance you create an environment where effective learning dominates.

You will learn that:

● Nourishing your physic

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Pogust Group
• Release date: Sep 17, 2021
• ISBN: 9781949813029

Aili Pogust

Dr. Pogust is an educator whose teach-ing spans elementary grades to graduateschool. She has taught numerous gradu-ate courses in brain-based learning, stylesof teaching and integrating the curric-ulum across content areas. She receivedher doctorate from Temple Universityin Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1993.Her training as a coach was acquired through Co-Active Training Institute and is reflected in the 3,000 hours she has accumulated coaching teachers, instructional coaches, supervi- sors and administrators. Her expertise in teaching literacy was sharpened through her extensive training at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Beyond Just Coping: Pursuing Balance for Educators and Parents / Dr. Aili Pogust—1st Edition

ISBN: 978-1-949813-15-9

Contents

Introduction

Chapter One: Balancing Our Physical Body for Learning

Chapter Two: Balancing Our Emotional Body

Chapter Three: Balancing Our Mental Body for Learning

Chapter Four: Balancing Our Spiritual Body for Learning

Chapter Five: Coaching, When the Balances Just Aren’t Working

Parting Inspiration

Bibliography

About the Author

To the pursuit of balance and the gifts it brings

One way or another, if human evolution is to go on, we shall

have to learn to enjoy life more thoroughly. Pay attention to what produces this kind of flow of experience

in your life and explore how to increase that.

—Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Introduction

Every day, I enjoy riding an adult tricycle five miles. After I kept that up for a year and a half, my bike’s chain came off in the middle of a ride. Although I knew little about the workings of tricycles, I managed to reattach the chain, enabling me to get home.

But I knew I had a problem.

I brought the bike to Earl, my neighbor and sometimes-riding-buddy. Earl knows bikes like the back of his hand. For fun, Earl disassembles old bicycles for parts, and his garage is a shrine of tools. He tightened the bike’s sagging chain and oiled every link. A check of my tires revealed that they held four pounds of pressure—instead of the recommended forty-five to sixty pounds.

Sometime during that year-and-a-half span, the bike had become unbalanced. Its inefficiency declined gradually. It was so gradual that I hadn’t noticed the extra effort I expended to overcome the mechanisms of the bike that had started working against each other. My creeping pace had become the new normal.

My next bike ride was a revelation! I could feel the wind across my body as I sped along. I took hills with added energy and there was no more hunching over handlebars. My bike was now in balance, and I responded well.

Like bikes, humans need to be in balance for maximum performance. Sleep patterns, diet, health, intake of mood-altering substances, and social-media usage, throw off our learning capacity if any is out of alignment.

These factors are part of a bigger picture.

People consist of four bodies that affect the ability to learn. These bodies are physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. You could think of each as contributing 25 percent