Written by: Sharon Dominica • edited by: Elizabeth Stannard Gromisch • updated: 4/21/2015 Children with orthopedic impairment can easily study in a regular school. This article describes some ideas that teachers can use while teaching in a classroom with orthopedic impairment students. Children with orthopedic impairment can do well in a regular school studying with…
How to Teach Phonological Awareness Just like phonics skills, there is a developmental sequence to teaching phonological awareness skills. Teaching phonological and phonemic awareness is done in the absence of written text. An in-depth assessment, such as the Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing (CTOPP), will help you determine your student’s present level…
It s okay to say look and see. Even fully sighted people use their other senses in the context of looking at something. Visually impaired people might look at things in a different way, but seeing is in the perception (rather than the eye) of the beholder. Audiovisual presentations and demonstrations are made accessible to severely visually impaired students…
Visual design firms are engaged to develop visual ideas that companies may use to advertise their goods and services to consumers. Your new graphic design firm will produce logos, charts, computer drawings, and animations to help your clients stand out from the crowd. When you develop a client list, you will encounter both big corporations that are always looking…
Russia and The Khazars By Ian Greenhalgh on August 17, 2016 KhazarEmpire [Editor’s Note: When you look at the biography of congressional representatives or U.S. senators who are dual Israeli citizens, or media moguls, or titans of the film industry, for example, you will often notice that the parents, or grandparents, or even the great grandparents are mentioned as…
How do children gain a deeper understanding of how they think, feel, and act so that they can improve their learning and develop meaningful relationships? Since antiquity, philosophers have been intrigued with how human beings develop self-awareness - the ability to examine and understand who we are relative to the world around us. Today, research not only shows that…
In a search of evidence-based materials from research organizations, we found several resources that are written for teachers and other practitioners. These resources have the following strategies in common: providing systematic and explicit instruction; teaching visual representation of functions and relationships, such as manipulatives, pictures, and graphs; providing…
On 11/4/2014 The nerves are likely starting to set in as your graduation date approaches and you prepare to step into your first preschool teaching job. It’s perfectly normal to be nervous. No amount of studying can fully prepare you for a classroom full of rambunctious toddlers. But with plenty of practice, hands-on training and some good advice, even corralling…
A top priority for early childhood educators is to teach children to read. Using developmentally appropriate practices (DAP) while incorporating foundational concepts into lessons help teachers differentiate instruction, engage students in the learning process, and increase achievement of all children. While students are treated as unique individuals, all practices…
America has always been referred to as a melting pot, but ideally, it s a place where we strive to invite everyone to celebrate exactly who they are. As the US population is becoming increasingly diverse and technology makes the world feel increasingly smaller, it is time to make every classroom a multicultural classroom. What is Multicultural Education? Multicultural…
In most of the movies where the characters are made to act as if they are adults, the students character development is given a lot of importance. This has to be done in order to make the student develop into an adult who can do things like make decisions and act maturely. When a kid plays such games, there is a lot of pressure put on him to act in a way that is…
OVERVIEW The jigsaw classroom is a research-based cooperative learning technique invented and developed in the early 1970s by Elliot Aronson and his students at the University of Texas and the University of California. Since 1971, thousands of classrooms have used jigsaw with great success. The jigsaw classroom has a four-decade track record of successfully reducing…
