Category: Ideas Corner

By Erin Schreiner While it is important that students operate within the general rules present in your classroom, it is also important that students recognize their...

By Dana Dratch If your New Year’s resolutions from last year have gone unresolved, you’re not alone. Now another New Year offers an opportunity to achieve...

by: Janet Blaylock Teaching primary children to edit is an important aspect in writing. Children need to learn how to write and then edit their own...

1.  It seems that all teenagers are interested in pop songs, so exploit that interest by bringing music–and the feelings that can be expressed through songs–into...

“When the task is done beforehand, then it is easy. If you do it hurriedly and carelessly, it must be hard.” (Cleary, 1989, p. 5) Learning...

“When the task is done beforehand, then it is easy. If you do it hurriedly and carelessly, it must be hard.” (Cleary, 1989, p. 5) There...

How to Motivate Children to Want to Learn IV. Variety is the Spice of Life! With that all said, it’s also important to change things up...

How to Motivate Children to Want to Learn II. Make your students Active Learners Think back to when you were in school. Did you like to...

How to Motivate Children to Want to Learn I am sure you have all been there. You are standing in front of a class of glassy-eyed...

Have you, as a parent, introduced a digital device to children because you feel the learning process is easier, especially as many children sit calmly when...