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Based on the data above, I can come up with a few story lines:
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The man answers the phone, and there is a voice on the other end ☎️👂. After the call, he becomes very confused and collapses into frustration, holding his head and thinking at the table 🤯🪑. Suddenly, he takes a piece of paper and writes on it ✍️📝. After some reflection, he may have found a solution for the phone call problem 💡✅.
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That day, the man received a task note from his boss 📝. He opened the paper and thought hard, but couldn’t understand what his boss meant 🤔. He held his head and pulled his hair, moving from annoyed to frustrated 😣💢. After thinking for a long time ⏳, he decided to call his boss 📞 to confirm. His boss said the note was sent to him by mistake, it was meant for another department 🙃. After hearing this, he breathed a sigh of relief 😌.
- After brainstorming actions and emotions, go back to the task. The task is to solve a problem.
- choose one detail from the above as the problem
- choose one detail as the development
- choose one detail as the result
Guide the students to work step by step like this, and you will see very interesting outcomes!
- The data you receive is raw data. With raw data, the first thing to do is name them. Here, the kids might give answers like:
- plan / blank sheet of paper
- phone
- man holding his head in the middle of a pile of books
- Step two: guide the kids to connect the raw data with actions or what might happen.
- draw, write, fold, crumple, throw the blank sheet
- call, listen, answer, hit the phone
- the man keeps holding his head, or stands up, or pushes the pile of books around
- Next, recall the emotions related to these two pieces of data. For example:
- writing on the blank sheet gives a fresh feeling, a start for something new
- folding and throwing the blank sheet gives a feeling of discarding
- phone rings, talking on the phone gives a feeling of sharing
- man holding his head, then standing up gives a feeling of frustration
My friend, problems like these often share a similar solution structure. If you’d like, I can share it with you. I also teach my students the basic structure first. Then, based on their own experience and imagination, they can create diverse and rich stories.
I always keep a notebook to write down the things that happen during my day. As for my daily routine, I give myself 10 minutes each day to do nothing at all, just to find stillness and let myself relax.
From my own experience, it’s not easy to see the value of the present unless we’ve been through some kind of hardship. I once went through a difficult time because I was careless and not paying attention to the present, and it led to something I truly regret. It’s been a long time since then, but that moment taught me how precious the present really is.
You don’t live in Vietnam, what you know are just a few pieces of news from many years ago. That’s why I’m here to remind you.
My profile has nothing to do with this story. I refuse to listen to your derogatory and condescending remarks. Keep them to yourself.
The picture above shows gold paper money – a type of joss paper used for burning as an offering to the deceased. This is a traditional custom in Vietnam and China. It is not real money. The picture and your quotation are unrelated and may cause misunderstanding.
After all, his position is higher than mine. I may be capable, but he is the one who has the authority to decide. If possible, I will subtly suggest better ways of doing things to him — of course, only in a private setting with just the two of us. If he agrees, that would be a good outcome. But if he disagrees, then that will be the last time I bother with this matter.
When I was about 7 or 8 years old, I discovered that the tip of a ballpoint pen could make a whistling sound, just like a dog whistle. I wrote about this discovery and sent it to a magazine. The very first royalty I earned from it was just enough to buy school supplies for my first month at school.
You should use a U-shaped pillow to stabilize both sides of your head. The most stable sleeping position is lying straight. The head is supported by the U-shaped pillow, and both legs are elevated about 10 cm.
I like the way you guide the kids to get real-life experience. From my almost ten years of training, I have a few simple notes for you:
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Show them first. This is very important, because we cannot teach kids something we don’t do ourselves.
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Be with them in their first trial projects. Without a first experiment, the kids won’t feel excited.
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Limit the topic. Sometimes kids don’t know what to choose. You can help them focus on one subject, and then let them do the rest.
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Start with what is around you. Encourage the kids to observe and ask simple questions like: “If this were yours, what feels not right? Can we make it better?”