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Teacher Shop Talk
Mental Healthness
100
A word that Canadians let dangle on the ends of their sentences. Our stereotypical speech pattern.
What is the expression "eh?"
100
A dark liquid (mixed with cream and/or sugar) that would be best in an IV drip at the end of term four.
What is the sweet, sweet elixir of life named coffee?
100
When they sit in any staff room, they are gone in less than an hour. They come in many shapes and sizes, but are best with butter.
What are carbohydrates?
200
The maple leaf.
What is Canada's national symbol?
200
This pyramid explains which basic human needs must be met before higher cognitive functions can be achieved.
What is Maslow's hierarchy of needs?
200
When you watch your thoughts float by and choose which ones you want to invest in.
What is mindfulness?
300
Sirop d'érable.
What is the blood that runs through every French Canadian's veins?
300
In the dictionary, this word means "approach to teaching." It also rhymes with "doggie."
What is pedagogy?
300
A school of psychological study that promotes strategies for adjusting maladaptive thought patterns that are termed "thinking traps."
What is CBT, or cognitive behavioural therapy?
400
Poutine.
What is Canada's unofficial national dish?
400
A pedagogical system developed for English/British/American ex-pat children overseas. Fairly pretentious. Promotes metacognition.
What is the International Baccalaureate organization?
400
A series of techniques for emotional self-regulation. Originally, these techniques were developed by Marsha Linehan for persons with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD).
What is Dialectic Behavioural Therapy, or DBT?
500
The Caesar. Clamato juice with vodka, Worcestershire, horseradish, and a pickled bean.
What is Canada's national cocktail?
500
A pyramid of "cognitive domains" with the most complex form of cognition at the top, and the simplest forms of cognition at the bottom.
What is Bloom's Taxonomy?
500
When you're mad as hell and you just can't take it anymore, you need this.
What is a mental health day?