Maker learning or maker education are new terms currently surfacing in school districts here and there around the country. However, it probably won’t be long before these phrases are heard more often. Maker learning is centered around engaging students by …
Class size has been one of education’s most significant issues for the last several decades. With school budgets limiting the number of educators they can hire and the physical school size limiting the number of classrooms in the building, it …
In most classrooms, there is a focus on academic skills and book learning. However, have you ever met someone that has been amazingly smart in school-related topics but couldn’t manage to do daily life tasks without looking clueless? Life …
Everyone has some sort of internal dialogue circulating in their mind. Sometimes we express our self-talk aloud verbally for all to hear, but many times it is simply thoughts that go on in our psyche. Whatever the case, it is …
For seniors just starting their final year in high school, it is not all about just coasting until graduation. There needs to be a game plan in place to ensure you are completing everything that needs to be done before …
Kids are excited to find out who their new classroom teacher is and which of their friends are in the same classroom. Even the students who are not all that fond of school are intrigued with the newness of the …
Kids learn best in a variety of ways. (And while we are at it, adults are the same way.) What might work well for one person as they try their best to learn about something new may not work well …
There can often be a thin line between a student who is at the end of their rope and a student who looks forward to attending school most days. Frustration can eventually boil over if not careful and leave the …
I was usually the only male elementary school teacher in the districts I worked with. Because of this, I was often placed with some of the most troubled students that perhaps just needed a strong male influence in their lives. …
When the school budget gets into the red every now and then, districts always discuss cutting the school’s funds for music as one of their first solutions. It happens in real life and in the film quite often (think Here …