I See The Potential
“Parents will always be catalysts for education reform.” def: Catalyst: An agent that precipitates -or- accelerates fundamental change In what is sure to be a phenomenally informative show, this Sunday on the “My Great Kid” Radio Program (Sunday 8:00am-9:00am, WAAM 1600am or online at www.waamannarbor.com; A podcast will be posted after the show) we will be [...]
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Wish I could say I wrote this …… Can’t I Skip My 20 Mins.of Reading Tonight? Let’s figure it out — mathematically! Student A reads 20 minutes five nights of every week; Student B reads only 4 minutes a night…or not at all! Step 1: Multiply minutes a night x 5 times each week. Student [...]
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Came across a site called Techno Dys a little bit ago and wanted to take this opportunity to reccommend that you add it to your RSS feed. They throw up a post a day with different site recommendations (amongst other things) and many of them are real winners worthy of your attention including: Brightstorm – [...]
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Swine flu, E. Coli, The Black Death now in the stuffed toy aisle!
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Genocide seem like a strong word to use? You may not think so after reading the full story.
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I just found this site online and think it’s a great site and phenomenal tool for schools, OT’s and especially parents. You pick what skill you want to work and what tools you have available and it gives you skills games/drills/tips that you can do. Very well laid out, clear and easy to follow and [...]
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The charter school that my son is at uses a Core Knowledge style structure. This article highlights the debate of the value of teaching to “modern life skills” vs “core skills”. In a modern world though shouldn’t computers, typing, etc. be considered “core”? Should Johnny Learn Core or Skills What do you think?
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IEP FAQs: Can We Write our Parapro’s Name in the IEP? Is a Child with ADD/ADHD Eligible for Special Education? – Wrightslaw Parent Volunteers Cannot Substitute for Trained Teachers by Sue Whitney Heath IEP FAQs: Is There a 10 Day Timeline for IEP Meetings? Teachers Trump Psychologist? Who Decides Eligibility? On Special Education: Q&A with [...]
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Wayne State Prof Research Pushes Autism Treatment Forward Helping Your Child and Family Have An Autism Friendly Holiday Season Autism diagnostic evaluation in multiple settings: Who should really be evaluating my child? Recovering from Autism. Part I Recovering from Autism. Part II Neuropsychological evaluations of children with autism: From recommendations to practical implementation. Sleep problems [...]
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I haven’t purchased these yet but in going through the samples it looks like a cool tool for those kids (and adults) who are strongly visually oriented. Grades 3rd and up but the idea would work for younger children too.
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Read this story about the recent report from the Education Trust, a children’s advocacy group, and you realize that our biggest challenges right now have less to do with the state of Wall Street and more with the state of our classrooms. It does reinforce all the more though the need to find out how [...]
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Ordered by the U.S. Department of Education to reassess the qualifications of its special education teachers, the Michigan Department of Education reported in June that about half of the core classes offered to special education students in self-contained classrooms offered instruction by non-highly qualified teachers.
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Even more eyebrow-raising, the research questioned whether a predominantly female teaching force is causing more boys to be labeled as behavior problems because women may struggle in handling the sometimes rambunctious nature of boys. It also questioned whether boys may respond better to a coachlike sternness found in some male teachers.
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The Information Age makes it possible for young people to learn much faster than our current failed bureaucracies and obsolete curriculums permit.
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“I’m on the yard at snack and lunch, and I don’t see any of it,” she said. “I can’t fix what I’m not aware of.”
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