- The Survival of Character Education In An Era of Elementary School Counselor Cutbacks By:-webmaster charactereducation
With a reduction of counseling positions, it is becoming increasingly difficult for schools to maintain high quality character education programs. Despite the changing counseling landscape, there are several great character education programming options. For example, due to their relative low cost, overall simplicity, lack of large time involvement, effective school wide reach, and extreme ease of use - many principals and counseling supervisors are turning to programs like R-Time, Second Step, Project Wisdom, and Achiever McBeaver.
- Software Technology Helping English-Language Learners By:-Art Gib
A big prediction recently stated that by 2010 over thirty percent of all school-age children will come from homes where their primary language is other than English. This figure leads up to the choice on what educators and parents should use to help in English teaching.
- More Teaching Demand for the Influx of English-Language Learners By:-Art Gib
America has always been known as the melting pot of different peoples and their various backgrounds. English dominated the consensus as the most used language, but just like her beginning years, the U.S. still has many immigrating here. With them comes also the desire to speak a common language. For new children it is important to start early.
- Don't Shy Away from Special Education Programs for Your Child By:-Scott Wasserman
Special education may help your child succeed in school and in life. Yet parents often fear that their child will be singled out in a room separate from their classmates, so they avoid seeking out special education arrangements. Take heart; current special education laws require schools to provide an educational environment that is as unrestrictive and equal for all children as possible.
- Kid Talk: Speaking is Good Reading By:-Art Gib
Speaking and understanding how language works orally not only helps children socially, but is a launch pad for reading. The electric connection between speaking and critical thought is what parents and teachers really work hard to emphasis. There are some small daily tasks that can develop speech skill.
- The Struggling Readers Who Need Help By:-Art Gib
The learning curve children have on reading and the willingness to take to reading is so variable and unique to each young person's brain. Every grade advancement in America's schools yield a disparity between those children that can keep up with the reading material and those who need help. That is why there are reading instruction systems that focus from the bottom up.
- Guided Reading: Seeing Spot Run is Not Enough By:-Art Gib
In an elementary classroom you will often witness varying ranges of reading ability from one child to the next. Guided reading is one method to anchor a teacher's training and to bolster student reading levels.
- Can Kids Get Too Much School? By:-Kenneth Scott
When my mother got a promotion at her job, she had new office hours that lasted much longer than my school day. I heard my parents talking about how to handle this problem.
- Computers - An Important Part Of School Life By:-Kenneth Scott
Computers, during the last two decades or so, have been instrumental in bringing about changes in the way we communicate and gather information and/or knowledge to such an extent that it is hard to find any sphere which has not undergone changes after the advent of computers.
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