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The Aftermath Of Growing Up As A Gifted Child
Listen Read Ever heard someone say, “Oh, yeah, I used to be gifted, but I’m not anymore”? Gifted and talented is not a social club that you try out for or even a class for kids who like to study and make good grades. When done correctly, the goal of...
What Does It Mean to Label Someone GT?
Listen Read A Brief History on Gifted and Talented Education and Its Evolving Perceptions Should I put my kid in GT? Many advocates for gifted and talented education frequently find themselves having to justify to a parent why they should allow their child to be in their school’s gifted and...
Whose ARD Is This, Anyway?
Listen Read 10 Tips for Making Sure the Secondary Student Is the Focus of the ARD Imagine being an adolescent who struggles in school, walking into a stuffy room and sitting at a table with 8 adults while they all talk about you as though you weren’t even present. This...
Teacher-friendly Kindergarten Science Lessons
Listen Kindergartners LOVE science. They are naturally curious so anything that has to do with figuring things out, nature, animals, water…kindergartners want to know more. Even with their natural curiosity, sometimes it’s hard to keep them focused on the lesson or activity. Here are some teacher-friendly activities that you and...
Literacy/Math Activities That Your Students Will Love
Listen When working with young children, you have to come up with activities that grab and hold your students’ attention. They have done most of their learning through play so anything that can make learning fun will be helpful. Listening to the teacher talk about a skill may only reach...
Mindfulness in the Classroom
Listen The demands put upon students these days, from kindergarten through high school, have become overwhelming. Kindergartners, 5 and 6 year olds, are expected to read and write by the end of the school year. Upper elementary age students need to be able to use a computer and take multiple,...
Should We Have Corporal Punishment in the Classroom?
Listen Corporal punishment is defined online by Merriam Webster as being “punishment inflicted on a person’s body”. They further add to the definition by pointing out that the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution “limits the use of corporal punishment on convicted offenders and prisoners”. However, they also point out...
Bureaucracy in the School System
Listen We like to think of education as the one U.S. institution that adamantly supports individualism and free speech. In many ways our schools, public and private, do just that. Administrators and teachers encourage free expression and a personal approach to academic development. State and federal education policies take proactive...
Let's Make Teaching Fun
Listen Teaching should be fun. If you think about it, it has all the elements. You're in a setting that, for several hours a day, lets you talk about a subject that you love. It's astonishing, then, how boring so many classrooms can become. If you want to reach your...
Is It Better For a Teacher To Be Nice or To Get Results?
Listen If you commonly hear the words You're being too nice or toughen up you might be taking a second look at how you run your classroom. A nice person by nature, you may not want to change how you do things, but something has to change. Your students are...
Don't Forget About Vocational and Trade Schools
Listen Traditional academic education is presumed to be elementary, high school and college with post graduate for professional careers in medicine and law. For many years the most overlooked educational curricula was viewed as "an option" for hands on careers in HVAC, plumbing, electrical, cosmetology, hair styling and culinary arts....
How Can We Increase Student Performance?
Listen While the role of the educator is to help students learn and grow, it can sometimes feel like we are stuck in a rut in regards to helping students to improve their performance, rather than remaining stagnant academically. Due to the fact that not every child learns or progresses...