Special education is defined by the United States Department of Education as “…specially designed instruction, at no cost to parents, to meet the unique needs of a child with a disability, …” The previous is an excerpt from Section 300.39 of the Code of Federal Regulations, which covers the assistances that states require to educate… Continue Reading
Teachers are a powerful force in any child’s upbringing. They can spend up to a third of the day educating young and curious minds. This education can often times influence a child’s prospects for the future. Students look up to teachers. They see their educators as all-knowing beings. They can’t fathom a teacher not knowing… Continue Reading
Children are quite competent at handling various responsibilities, and at this age, they are developing a sense of how some chores, like picking up litter in the park, can benefit an entire community. Most kids don’t have internal motivation to be responsible, so yours may still need occasional reminders and motivation. At this stage, it… Continue Reading
Tolerance. It’s amazing how five consonants and four vowels can come together to express something extremely powerful yet incredibly difficult to obtain. The classroom is one of the hardest places to find it. For teachers, it can become the most daunting task during the school year. A classroom is a micro sample of the world.… Continue Reading
Memory is the process in which information is encoded, stored, and retrieved. Encoding allows information from the outside world to be sensed in the form of chemical and physical stimuli. Memory actually takes many different forms. Patrick Dwyer explains that the kind information and how long we retain it determines what type of memory it… Continue Reading
Technology is absorbing our children’s life more and more with the passing of each day. We see school children walking around with tablets, better smartphones than their parents, and gadgets that adults will possibly never comprehend. Even though the use of technology can help children gain some important skills in life there is one where… Continue Reading
Children say and do the darndest things, don’t they? They tend to speak their minds without any consideration about the impact of the words they say. Sometimes they make adults laugh at the curious things that come out of their mouths or the things they do. Other times, those same things make adults cringe. But… Continue Reading
When our grandparents were young, they had only one shelter for the winter. Just one! On a rainy day, in those times of austerity to have a coat was considered a luxury. Therefore, children cared for it as a precious commodity. In those days everybody used to have the bare minimum. And children were aware… Continue Reading
1983 marked a revolution in the way learning is approached. That year, a brilliant mind from Scranton, Pennsylvania launched what would become one of the most popular educational theories in the history of the discipline. It was the introduction of the Multiple Intelligence Theory by Howard Gardner and boy did it change how we looked… Continue Reading
Pierre Faure was a French Jesuit who developed the Personalized Learning Model of Education. He believed that in order to teach students it is not enough to have the right instruments or materials, it is necessary to cultivate each student as an individual with a shiny spirit meant to last during its entire lifetime. He… Continue Reading