Making Kids Successful Adults Through Play
By Jane Sandwood, Freelance Writer One often overlooked aspect of a child’s development is the teaching of life skills. In contrast to most lessons that focus on academic excellence such as math and science, life skills are, according to UNICEF, the skills that a person needs in order to successfully navigate everyday life. These skills are usually, in addition […]
Creating Student Innovators In Our Schools
When information is ubiquitous and free, and when basic education is available to billions of people worldwide, only one set of skills can ensure this generation’s economic future – the capacity for innovation. Here are few questions to consider as you reflect on the status of our current educational systems and how they need to […]
Cutting Through The Noise: How To Help Kids Focus
Brand new data has confirmed what many teachers already know: kids who spend more than 2 hours per day looking at screens (and that’s currently nearly 2 out of 3 American children) perform worse on memory, language and thinking tests than their peers. Too many children arrive in school over-stimulated from screens, full of sugar, lacking a good […]
Empowering Elementary School Children Against Bullying
By Jane Sandwood, Freelance Writer Image by Andrik Langfield American politician and former labor lawyer Linda Sanchez, was quoted as saying: “For too long, our society has shrugged off bullying by labeling it a ‘rite of passage’ and by asking students to simply ‘get over it.‘ Those attitudes need to change. Every day, students are bullied into […]
Press Release: Teach n’ Kids Learn (TKL) and EvaluWise Announce Partnership
Providing Schools and Teachers with Personalized Professional Development based on Specific Skills Identified Through Teacher Evaluations Sep. 17, 2018 / PRZen / MIAMI & JOLIET, Ill. — Vista Learning, NFP’s EvaluWise®, the nation’s leading provider of easy-to-use Teacher Evaluation cloud-based software for public, private and parochial schools, and Teach n Kids Learn, Inc. (TKL) a cutting-edge provider of highly-effective online […]
Language Arts Activities Which Will Gain Parent Support for Student Learning
How can we help parents in supporting their child to develop better skills when it comes to the higher demands for reading and writing? This is a question that many teachers struggle with every year in our schools. The focus of this blog post is to provide a few printable resources (see table below) and a […]
Math Activities Which Will Gain Parent Support for Student Learning
How can we help parents in supporting their child to develop better skills when it comes to the higher demands for learning mathematics? This is a question that many teachers struggle with every year in our schools. The focus of this blog post is to provide a few printable resources (see table below) and a few […]
How to Go the Extra Mile in the Field of Education
By Daniel Sherwin, Founder dadsolo.com For anyone working in the field of education – from a teacher to school administrators, to private tutors – it can be difficult to distinguish yourself and find the right ways to achieve what can, at times, seem like lofty goals. Education is a demanding field, and educators need to have […]
Ensuring Equity and Excellence in Mathematics
Although the goals of equity and excellence in education sometimes appear to clash, in mathematics education they converge on a single focal point: heightened expectations. Is it acceptable for a student to finish school and not be able to read? No. Is it acceptable for a student to finish school and not be proficient in Math? Of course not. […]
5 Reasons Why Students Benefit From A Problem-Centered Math Classroom
Teaching mathematics with a problem-centered approach may cause some teachers to step outside of their own comfort zone, the benefits that students receive from learning in this environment are well worth the discomfort that may be felt. Take a look at the 5 benefits of a problem-centered math classroom followed by a classroom video segment below.