May Dates to Celebrate 1 Mother Goose 2 Save a Rhino 3 Baby Day, Lumpy Rug, Brother and Sisters 4 Bird, Candied Orange Peel, Star Wars 5 Cinco de Mayo, Tuba, Hoagie, Oyster, Space Day 6 Beverage, Tourist Appreciation, Nurse, No Diet 7 Tourism 8 Iris, No Socks, V-E, Red Cross 9 Lost Sock Memorial,… Read More »
This is Volunteer Week across America. I wanted to take this opportunity to thank every volunteer for their time and commitment to helping others. Each task you do whether it’s a school crossing guard, Meals on Wheels driver, working in food banks, reading to shut-ins, driving a bus for the elderly or for delivering homeless… Read More »
Use these 5 techniques to help students get started on classroom work, small group work AND at home during homework hour: Active Listening Work with students at their eye level. Establish eye contact. Ask follow-up questions to indicate you know what was said. Develop a habit of valuing all questions asked. Questioning Strategies Ask “What”… Read More »
If you are planning an end of the year conference with one or more teachers, start planning now. Gather together student work that demonstrates the questions you want to ask the teacher. Bring notes and report cards you wish to discuss. Discuss your planned conference with the teacher WITH your child to allow his/her to… Read More »
Student skills develop over several years. Here is a common set of skills for each K-12 year. Kids vary in their personal abilities, but these are standard skills and standard grades where students gain specific thinking skills. Specific Skill K-3 3-6 6-9 9-12 Observation X X X X Communication X … Read More »
Now more than ever, we need STEM (Science Technology Engineering Math) to become STEAM (adding the “A” for Arts). The inclusion of ARTS has been widely studied and found to be an intergral part of critical thinking. More and more businesses are including visual and writing artists as part of their innovation teams. Why? Visual… Read More »