introduction

Chapter 1.
Annual class activities
A morning that starts with a picture book
Introducing the teacher
Establishing a Class Vision
Creating the Ideal Classroom
birthday party
Preventing sexual violence
When gossip reveals division in the class
Welcoming and Sending Off Transfer Students

Chapter 2.
Student Counseling
children with low self-esteem
A child who swears often
An anxious child
A child who wants to get along with friends but is lonely
A child who fights with a friend and wants to give up on studying
A child struggling with academic stress
A child who cannot communicate with his parents
A child who needs to form good habits to achieve his dreams
Kids addicted to smartphones
Children who need to look into their hearts
Children in need of mental healing
Small group career counseling
Relationship counseling

Why a picture book?

Teachers want their classrooms to be warm, safe, and healthy communities throughout the year.
In fact, this is no different for students.
In order to run a classroom peacefully, the relationship between students and between teachers and students is most important.
To build a relationship, there must be a conversation.
To do that, you must first open your heart.
Ultimately, the foundation of peaceful classroom management can be said to be opening students' hearts.
The authors suggest 'picture books' as an answer that can open students' minds.

Above all, picture books provide comfort through their text and pictures.
And secondly, it makes people empathize with each other.
So, it relieves the teacher of the role of creating an emotional atmosphere to encourage empathy.
Thirdly, because the process of reading and sharing together is necessary, group activities are fundamental when using picture books, and this in turn fosters community capacity.
Fourthly, using picture books in the classroom helps children regain their innocence.
Finally, the change in students occurs spontaneously from within.


Picture books: Opening the closed doors of children's hearts

Part 1 introduces annual class activities that were unfortunately not covered in the first book, 『Picture Book Class Management』, such as opening the class with a picture book, introducing the teacher, establishing a class vision, creating an ideal class, birthday parties, welcoming new students, and sending off new students.

Part 2 contains cases of counseling children using picture books.
It contains cases of counseling with children such as children with low self-esteem, children who swear frequently, children who are lonely, and children who fight with friends.
This is a detailed guide that can be easily applied even by those who are not counseling specialists, using cases of children that any teacher would encounter, which could be found in any classroom.

Picture books can open the closed doors of children's hearts.
This book will be helpful in meeting children through picture books in the future.
When children cry out that their hearts are aching, we can provide them with a little comfort and solace through picture books.