A professional educator is value driven, guided by principles, passion and a purpose bigger than themselves. A professional educator is a need analyst who s competent to diagnose and prescribe options for educational success and significance. A professional educator believes their work is a vocation and calling rather than an occupation where one merely occupies… Read more »
With so much emphasis on reading, math, and science, social studies is not receiving the same degree of attention it once did. As a result, we sometimes forget how important this subject is to the growth and development of children as future citizens. There are many ways parents can create meaningful activities that are fun… Read more »
Listen to us and we’ll tell you a rap About Room 20, the helping hands class. H stands for honest, we ask to use things. It also stands for happy, hear us sing. A stands for active cuz we love to learn. And to do that we re attentive so that s not a concern…. Read more »
The story is told about the great Louis Armstrong who was asked as a small boy to go down to the river to get a bucket of water by an old lady. When he went down to the river he saw a pair of eyes looking at him out of the water. An alligator frightened… Read more »
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. – Gilbert Keith Chesterton
1. When you validate, value, and affirm your child, you become valued, validated, and affirmed. 2. When you demean, weaken, and devalue your child, you become weak, powerless, and ineffective. 3. Praise in little amounts reaps high dividends. Praise in large amounts is destructive. Encouragement contributes the most toward responsibility! 4. Effective discipline includes intrinsic… Read more »
“Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find that you have crossed the mountain.” – Author Unknown
Students who bully others tend to have difficulties with other relationships, such as those with friends and parents. Targeting those relationships, as well as the problems children who bully have with aggression and morality, may offer ideas for intervention and prevention. Those are the findings of a new study that was conducted by scientists at… Read more »
“It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.” – John Holmes, Jr
I remember as a high school student wearing a shirt that said “What Me Worry?” The shirt had a picture of Alfred E. Newman the character that often showed up on the cover of Mad Magazine. Even though we are not wearing the shirt these days we could use a little bit of the psychology…. Read more »
