Excerpt from a 1993 journal entry: I wrote a note to my building principal to update him on my progress in Kung Fu since the “Kung Fu Parable”. I told him that my experience in Kung Fu will make me a better teacher. It has reminded me of what it feels like to be a “kid/student” again, therefore [...]
Using singing and music to help students remember material can be one of the most powerful tools in your teaching toolkit for reinforcing memorization and learning.
Do you have kids in your classroom who seem to have trouble doing their homework? It's a problem all over the world and especially in schools where kids come from homes where parents may not be available to help them study or may not be capable of helping them study. Rather than go crazy trying to a [...]
The goal—that is, the content to be learned--is still the same for all students, but the path to learning can become much more varied and responsive to the different learning styles and levels of the students in the classroom. Once the basic concepts are understood, though, there are many simple and effective techniques for implementing differentiated instruction in the classroom. Introducing pictures and images, movement-based exercises, cooperative projects, and color-coded instruction aids are four teaching strategies that target the special needs of diverse learning styles, while still benefiting all the students in that classroom.
Have your child paste their essay in www.Wordle.net. The overused words in the essay will be the largest in the Wordle design. Have your child use a thesaurus to find multi-syllabic words to replace the overused words. Multi-syllabic words increase the reading level (grade level) of a student essay. [...]