Most people think building relationships is only with people. However, if students build relationships with academic content, they will succeed in all they do. Building relations with content is to find what is interesting to the child. The child needs to be an active advocate for what he/she likes with the content. The…
Students and adults either like math or hate math. There is usually no gray area. In the article Why So Many Students Hate Math ( And How To Fix it) published on March 28, 2019, on the website Oxford Learning https://www.oxfordlearning.com/why-kids-hate-math-how-to-help/ The article states 4 reasons why students hate math. The reasons are that the…
Recently published a meta-analysis of 52 studies from English-speaking countries on what is most important for teaching reading comprehension. The study was published on May 20, 2023, titled The Active Ingredient in Reading Comprehension Strategy Intervention for Struggling Readers: A Bayesian Network Meta-analysis. The study stated that there is no single strategy that works the…
Leadership styles and Parenting Styles are very similar. Think about parenting skills as leadership skills, it will help parent your children. If you think about how you are guiding your child to be a productive and responsible adult. As a leader, you guide your employees to be productive and responsible. Looking at parenting styles…
Mathematics for most people is a love or hate subject more than other subjects. Education Week sent out a special report this week titled “Miscalculating Math.” It has resources for teaching math and ideas for math. In U.S. News and World Report’s article U.S. Teens’ Reading and Math Scores Feature Largest Declines Ever by Lauren…
Recently, there have been multiple articles about principals and teachers leaving their positions. Other articles discuss the shortage of teachers at the beginning of the school year. Further articles state that teachers are quitting in masses. Additionally, articles state that students’ misbehaviors are increasing. After many decades of denouncing educators, we are in a place…
What is acting out behavior? Acting out behavior is a reaction to something. The American Psychological Association defines acting out as an extreme behavioral expression of emotions that relieves tension or communicates these emotions in a disguised or indirect way. Acting out is often disruptive, especially in a classroom or at home. Acting out behavior…
What is behavior? Behavior is the way we conduct ourselves from a stimulus. There are so many strategies that relate to behaviors. Goggle behaviors and the results give a plethora of ideas. This article will give 5 ideas to create behavioral strong classrooms. The first is to set up the structure in…
What is grit? Angela Duckworth describes grit as “sticking with things over the very long term until you master them. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines grit as firmness of mind or spirit: unyielding courage in the face of hardship or danger. So, is grit important to teach? Grit is not something that you are born…
Patience is a virtue is a Proverb quote. What does that really mean in education? The Association for Middle-Level Education (AMLE) has an article titled Patient and Tenacious Teaching by Rick Wormeli https://www.amle.org/patient-and-tenacious-teaching/#:~:text=Patience%20to%20Build%20Prior%20Knowledge,to%20something%20already%20in%20storage. States that patience is the most powerful tool with have. It is difficult to use patience in a classroom that is pressurized…
