Each spring students are challenged to create original writing assignments for spring conferences and open house events. Many students, who are fluent speakers and readers, struggle with extensive writing assignments. Marcia Tate’s Preparing Children for Success in School and Life provides instructional strategies based on brain
This piece is adapted from What If Everybody Understood Child Development?: Straight Talk About Improving Education and Children’s Lives. As you’d expect, when the Texas State School Board was voting whether to make daily physical education part of the curriculum, there was a lot of deliberation.
Understanding child development and - most importantly - how children learn, is undoubtedly one of the fundamental necessities of good teaching. The field of neuroscience is constantly expanding; we learn more about our students everyday. It's important that teachers keep up with the latest discoveries