As a Behaviour & Education Specialist, I get asked this question a lot, and with my general edging-towards-children’s-TV-presenter-persona, you may think you know what my answer is…
…watch on, my years of experience teaching in mainstream, APs and PRUs has taught me something important on this…
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I love that! (I wish I had a resting smiling face…!)
Ha! We all have a resting something face, and can use it to our advantage either way…I am often late for things as I end up chatting to, who was it today? Protesters at a Hong Kong protest, the man giving out leaflets about a Plant Based organisation…you probably get to catch your trains!
Oh thank goodness for that! I’m a smiler too, and the children I will be training with know that. It would really throw them (and myself!) if I changed that radically! It has honestly been something I worried about but in my heart I always knew the smiler would triumph!
Exactly!