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Growing the Orchids: The Innovative Educational Method to Help Kids Blossom
Some children are like orchids - sensitive, vulnerable and necessitating great investment, but their blossoming is the most beautiful and gratifying of all. Quite a few children experience frustration and challenges within all of their frameworks - at school, in their homes and in their other surroundings. These children pose a much greater challenge than usual for adults, but this is only due to the fact that these adults have yet to find the right way to truly listen to the children’s distress and help them emerge victorious from all of their challenges. Growing the Orchids is a unique book and a first-time presentation of an educational approach offering a combination of educational and therapeutic languages. The synergy created between the two languages enables conversing and progressive communication with children. The educational experience then becomes positive and respectful, and offers a sense of security for both children and adults. The book contains various case studies as well as practical tools for coping with educational challenges. Dr. Ofer Marbach - PhD in social policies, school principal, lecturer and advisor with over twenty-five years’ experience of work in the field, out of which ten years spent running schools for special education and Montessori education - manages to touch upon important and urgent subjects in the field of education, all through a model enabling a different perspective on relationships within the classroom, school and This book is suitable for everyone who has education running through their veins and wishes to become a significant factor in the beautiful blossoming process of children.
146 pages, Paperback
Published February 9, 2021
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February 24, 2021
Highly recommended reading...
Growing the Orchids: The Innovative Educational Method to Help Kids Blossom by Dr. Ofer Marbach is a ‘unique book and a first-time presentation of an educational approach offering a combination of educational and therapeutic languages. The synergy created between the two languages enables conversing and progressive communication with children. The educational experience then becomes positive and respectful and offers a sense of security for both children and adults.’
21st century educational leadership should be equipped to deal with the myriad changes bombarding the educational arena. As technology, culture, politics, economy, and social factors continue to modify the educational environment, academic-qualification should no longer be the measuring stick by which educators are prepared. The need to develop adaptive-competent qualified educators becomes necessary.
This is an excellent book for all educators who want to make a positive impact in a child’s development. Highly recommended reading for both parents and teachers alike. A well-deserved five stars. I voluntarily reviewed a complimentary copy of this book.
Growing the Orchids: The Innovative Educational Method to Help Kids Blossom by Dr. Ofer Marbach is a ‘unique book and a first-time presentation of an educational approach offering a combination of educational and therapeutic languages. The synergy created between the two languages enables conversing and progressive communication with children. The educational experience then becomes positive and respectful and offers a sense of security for both children and adults.’
21st century educational leadership should be equipped to deal with the myriad changes bombarding the educational arena. As technology, culture, politics, economy, and social factors continue to modify the educational environment, academic-qualification should no longer be the measuring stick by which educators are prepared. The need to develop adaptive-competent qualified educators becomes necessary.
This is an excellent book for all educators who want to make a positive impact in a child’s development. Highly recommended reading for both parents and teachers alike. A well-deserved five stars. I voluntarily reviewed a complimentary copy of this book.
February 16, 2021
‘This is the win-win situation: My change is his. His gain is mine.’ – valuable insights!
Israeli author Ofer Marbach earned his PhD in social policies and continues to lecture for Israel’s leading teaching institutions for education and special education. He has served as a Principal of a Montessori school, for a special education school for children with mental health disorders, and as a panel member in the Israeli Psychiatric Organization for Children and Adolescents’ conference – Psychiatry and the Educational System. GROWING THE ORCHID is his literary debut. Toby Boni Shamir provides the translation from the Hebrew.
Leading into this very important volume of insights, the author offers: ‘Let us not say: “The child doesn’t know how to behave” – behave differently with him! Let us not say: “The child has attention and cooperation problems” – pay more concentrated attention to him. Let us not say: “This child has emotional and psychological issues” – be more sensitive to his needs! Let us not say “The child has communication difficulties.‘ – Instead, find a way to communicate with him differently with him.’
Dr. Marbach addresses his book to teachers and educators, presenting his own extensive experience in the field and the insights he has gained from his years with students. As he states, ‘I believe that to create change in a child whose behavior is harmful and disruptive, the educator has to first understand where he has been hurt by the child’s behavior. He must work on himself and change his own behavior. When a child’s disturbing behavior harms me as an educator, insults me and annoys me, a change in the child’s behavior will not be achieved by reacting to him or punishing him. It will only result from my own process of change. As an adult, an educator, a teacher, a parent, or a principal, I have to learn to cope with the child. I should be able to contain the behavior and not “fall apart.” I mustn’t give up on him. I have to remain strong enough to accompany him, support him, and give him a sufficient sense of security to further his own process of change. This is the “win-win ‘ situation. My change is his. His gain is mine.”
The book’s title reflects the author’s comparison between raising orchids and important interaction between the grower and the orchid. He therefore presents his Orchid Model as Stage One – Building a Relationship, Stage Two – Crating an Individual Empowerment Program, Stage Three – Balance, Stage Four and Five – Learning and Development. Easy to follow and accessible to incorporate his guidelines, Dr. Marbach adds a significant addendum to teaching that is revelatory.
Israeli author Ofer Marbach earned his PhD in social policies and continues to lecture for Israel’s leading teaching institutions for education and special education. He has served as a Principal of a Montessori school, for a special education school for children with mental health disorders, and as a panel member in the Israeli Psychiatric Organization for Children and Adolescents’ conference – Psychiatry and the Educational System. GROWING THE ORCHID is his literary debut. Toby Boni Shamir provides the translation from the Hebrew.
Leading into this very important volume of insights, the author offers: ‘Let us not say: “The child doesn’t know how to behave” – behave differently with him! Let us not say: “The child has attention and cooperation problems” – pay more concentrated attention to him. Let us not say: “This child has emotional and psychological issues” – be more sensitive to his needs! Let us not say “The child has communication difficulties.‘ – Instead, find a way to communicate with him differently with him.’
Dr. Marbach addresses his book to teachers and educators, presenting his own extensive experience in the field and the insights he has gained from his years with students. As he states, ‘I believe that to create change in a child whose behavior is harmful and disruptive, the educator has to first understand where he has been hurt by the child’s behavior. He must work on himself and change his own behavior. When a child’s disturbing behavior harms me as an educator, insults me and annoys me, a change in the child’s behavior will not be achieved by reacting to him or punishing him. It will only result from my own process of change. As an adult, an educator, a teacher, a parent, or a principal, I have to learn to cope with the child. I should be able to contain the behavior and not “fall apart.” I mustn’t give up on him. I have to remain strong enough to accompany him, support him, and give him a sufficient sense of security to further his own process of change. This is the “win-win ‘ situation. My change is his. His gain is mine.”
The book’s title reflects the author’s comparison between raising orchids and important interaction between the grower and the orchid. He therefore presents his Orchid Model as Stage One – Building a Relationship, Stage Two – Crating an Individual Empowerment Program, Stage Three – Balance, Stage Four and Five – Learning and Development. Easy to follow and accessible to incorporate his guidelines, Dr. Marbach adds a significant addendum to teaching that is revelatory.
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