Paulo Freire, a Brazilian educator and philosopher, once said, “Education will not change the world, it will change the people who are going to change the world.” Sometimes teachers forget how powerful their words and actions can be for students. The Dwyer Family Foundation has covered just how impactful a teacher’s words can be in… Continue Reading
Teachers are constantly trying to find new and interesting ways to help students understand and learn what was seen in class. Some have infinite patience to explain once and again a concept, with the firm conviction that a student will get in the next try. Other teachers have a knack for thinking outside the box… Continue Reading
Man has made incredible and some would consider unfathomable strides in technology over the last 60 years. We went from having a computer the size of a large room to having one in our phones. The classroom has been no stranger to the advances of technology. The Encyclopedia Britannica was replaced by Encarta which was… Continue Reading
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