Have you tried recently to read your students handwriting? If it wasn’t so sad, I’d think we were all raising future Doctors. Today’s students use computers more than written skills to communicate their thoughts. While this is great in improving their typing, it does not improve their handwriting skills.
Handwriting Counts!
Why Good Penmanship Will Never Go Out of Style
by Kari Anderson
Archive for December, 2006
Whatever Happened to Good Penmanship?
Being Gifted is a Good Thing…Right?
Is It Good to Be Gifted? While a high IQ has a definite upside, there’s also a flipside, according to David Palmer, Ph.D., author of the new book, Parents Guide to IQ Testing and Gifted Education. An award-winning researcher and educational psychologist, Dr. Palmer wrote his new book to help parents understand gifted testing and gifted programming so that they can make informed decisions for their children. Teachers, principals, and other educators who need to understand gifted testing and placement are also finding the book helpful. Since you serve both parents and teachers, we thought an update on “the flipside” of being gifted was in order. Here, Dr. Palmer discusses the effects of giftedness on children, and the ways parents and educators can help them cope. (more…)
That’s a silly question; of course being gifted is good. Isn’t it? By David Palmer, Ph.D
Discrimination: Does Title III Apply to Your School?
We are all familiar with Title III and ADA in relation to businesses. But are you aware that Title III may apply to your school? Are You Discriminating? Since its enactment in 1990, educational institutions have become increasingly familiar with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). In fact, it is now common knowledge that Title I of the ADA prohibits educational institutions with 15 or more employees from discriminating against employees or applicants for employment on the basis of a disability or perceived disability. (more…)
by Kristen L. Sampo
It is important (and your legal responsibility) to make sure that your school is physically accessible to disabled individuals.
Overview of the Law
High Tech Products for High Tech Students
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How do you keep students interested when you use old fashion methods of teaching…. you don’t. Today’s students live in an electronic world. We have to use new terchnologies to communicate with them and keep their interest in school. Interactive Whiteboards |
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| Schools and educators today are faced with an enormous challenge — how to connect with students who don’t know life without video games, the Internet and iPods. |
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Schools and educators today are faced with an enormous challenge — how to connect with students who don’t know life without video games, the Internet and iPods. Many years ago, the premise of going up to the front of the classroom to write on the blackboard was enough to get students to pay attention. This generation of students expects more. They watch their favorite television shows in high-definition and get answers to their questions in a split second on an Internet search engine. Schools and educators around the world have started to harness high-tech teaching tools to bridge the digital divide and make sure students are engaged and excited about what they are learning in the classroom. (more…) |