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Clint Rodenfels

The Texas Blueprint: Transforming Education Outcomes for Children and Youth in Foster Care - 0 views

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    PDF report from the Education Committee of the Supreme Court of Texas Permanent Judicial Commission for Children, Youth, and Families. From the document's cover letter: "The Education Committee's recommendations give voice to a child's educational experience at each stage of development while in foster care. From infancy to post-secondary school transition, the Committee recognizes that a child's well-being includes academic stability as well as social connectedness gained through extra-curricular activities. For children with special needs, the recommendations require informed advocacy with deliberate speed. Each stakeholder entity and individual who touches the life of a child in foster care is accountable to secure optimum education access."
Katrina Miller

How to Teach Your Children Effective Social Skills - 0 views

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    Workbooks can provide parents with instant expertise about developing social skills in children. The parent can adapt the workbook to the learning style of the child.
Chris Sasiadek

Are Violent Video Games Adeuately Preparing our Children for the Apocolypse? - 4 views

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/are_violent_video_games While watching the clip at the above link, think about how curricula are written. Are they teaching children skills that are universa...

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Chris Sasiadek

Another School District Cuts Hours - 15 views

Apparently, I not only love the sound of my own voice, but of my own keyboard as well..... So I couldn't help doing a little research: http://www.ncsl.org/programs/educ/4DaySchWeek.htm There is ...

week schedule budget cuts Arizona NPR

Katrina Miller

Promote Competency By Using Everyday Experience - 0 views

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    Parents should encourage children to take risks and help them manage their failures by explicit day to day experience. This will promote competency in children.
Katrina Miller

How to Teach Children Self-Efficacy - 0 views

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    Nurture a growth mindset in Children in order to perform better in studies and life. Self-Efficacy is the key to growth.
Katrina Miller

Nurturing Curiosity in Children increases the Meaningfulness of Life - 1 views

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    Nurture curiosity in children. This will help to build their inner strengths and live in a better way. Here is another nice article from Katrina Miller of Moxie Mental Health.
Graeme Wadlow

Deductive reasoning in children with specific language impairment - 0 views

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    Deductive reasoning in children with specific language impairment - Newton - 2010 - British Journal of Developmental Psychology - Wiley Online Library
Brec Cooke

NCCP | Home - 0 views

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    National Center for Children in Poverty
Krissy Woods

Chester E. Finn Jr. - Don't Rush to Get Onboard With Universal Preschool - washingtonpo... - 0 views

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    Opinion article on President Obama's plan to fund an early childhood education program. Although biased, the author provides a fact-based argument about the costs of starting such a program in the U.S. Aimed to increase the intelluctual abilies of young children, this program would fund a pre-K education for kids across the nation.
sontimalonti

Revealed: new teaching methods that are producing dramatic results - Telegraph - 3 views

  • According to studies carried out at the National Institute for Child Health and Development in the United States, connections between developing brain cells form most effectively when the brain is given regular breaks, hence the spaces between lessons are every bit as crucial as the content of the lessons themselves;
  • the teacher gives a quickfire Powerpoint presentation, of about three slides a minute, and the pupils listen and read the screen, effectively taking in the information twice. After a gap, the same presentation is run, but there are missing spaces where the children have to fill in the missing words and repeat them aloud, which keeps their minds active and thinking. At this point they can also ask questions. After a second break, a similar presentation takes place.
  • Theoretically you could do half the year's syllabus in a couple of hours, leaving you with lots of time to do the exciting, practical stuff. But whether it would work for every single pupil in every single subject, I don't know
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  • In some ways, spaced learning is simply a modern twist on a very old-fashioned approach, that of rote learning.
  • Kids have higher expectations these days and they can multi-task and access new technology to a degree – and at a speed – that adults can only dream of, so if education is to remain relevant to them, we have to adapt, whether we like it or not.'
  • Over the past five years we've moved from an education system of very tightly regulated structure, curriculum and assessment to one where there's more freedom around the curriculum and much more freedom in the way schools organise themselves
  • In the classroom, pupils need continuity, not constant change and adoption of new fads. There's no substitute for an inspiring teacher passionate about their subject giving a well-planned lesson.'
  • Every child at the school has had some spaced learning lessons. The information that is compressed deals not only with key facts, but also with the fundamental principles of the subject, such as mathematical formulae, and gives examples of how to apply these. Some subjects, such as English, are harder to compress, but it can be done.
  • I find this new way of learning far more interesting than sitting with a textbook, and after every lesson I feel I've really learnt something, and I do remember it for a long time afterwards, too.'
  • Theoretically you could do half the year's syllabus in a couple of hours, leaving you with lots of time to do the exciting, practical stuff. But whether it would work for every single pupil in every single subject, I don't know,'
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      but surely this is crucial?
  • But the kids are on board and we're seeing the results. I suppose the thing that finally convinced me that we were on to something was when I sat in on one of our lessons and afterwards I discovered I knew chapter and verse on hormones – and had still retained the information months later.'
  • Rowena Coxon, a parent with two children at the school, Jenny, 16, and 14-year-old Elanor, admits that she had her doubts about spaced learning. 'I was sceptical at first, because it seemed to me that the students were spending a lot of time not actually learning, but what I found most striking was how much my daughters enjoyed it – far more than conventional cramming.
  • At Leasowes Community College in Dudley, outside Birmingham, the absolute antithesis of the eight-minute lesson is being hailed as the way forward. Here, classes can last up to five or six days. Students are immersed in a single subject, allowing them to complete practice, theory and coursework in a single block, and – so the theory goes – gain a deeper, more fundamental understanding of the topic. The corridors of this 1,200-roll school are papered with signs bearing stirring mottos such as success is a journey, not a destination, and Albert Camus's dictum you cannot create experience, you must undergo it.
  • 'We are combining the traditional with the innovative; we still teach languages, which is becoming increasingly rare, but we also recognise that part of our job is to prepare children to be successful in the world, so our aspirations are higher than getting them to pass a few exams. The sort of personal development we seek to promote doesn't fit into the culture of rigid one-hour lessons.'
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      as practised in waldorf schools for decades.
  • In the classroom, pupils need continuity, not constant change and adoption of new fads. There's no substitute for an inspiring teacher passionate about their subject giving a well-planned lesson.'
  • 'We have no bells here because they create a herd mentality. We want to foster personal responsibility; students can go to the loo when they want or fetch themselves a drink of water without asking permission. The teachers give them a break when they feel the kids need one.'
  • Traditionalists, brought up in the never-did-me-any-harm system of obedience – verging on obeisance – towards authority may find the modern vogue for individualism wholly at odds with their own school experience. Yet personal development has become the new clarion call across all areas of secondary education. Whether that can be achieved in tandem with outstanding exam results remains to be seen.
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    article on new teaching methods; new approach to learning - partnership with cambridge uni & microsoft education
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    most crucial aspect seems to me revisiting students and testing recall after a long period. Also, does this only apply to "fact learning", or does this also engage critical faculty?
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    The scientific method in education is concerned with giving the student breaks from lessons in order to help him focus more ..Greetings to all and happy to communicate with you. أطيب
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Graeme Wadlow

Training-induced Neuroplasticity in Young Children. - 0 views

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    Gottfried Schlaug. 2009; Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences - Wiley InterScience
Peter Horsfield

Hina Jilani - Free Extraordinary Profiles - 0 views

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    Hina Jilani is an activist lawyer and one of the two new members of The Elders. She is known for defending abused women and labor-bonded children in Pakistan. With her sister, Asma Jilani Jahangir, Hina cofounded her country's first all-female legal aid practice, AGHS Legal Aid Cell in 1980. After a year, Hina became one of the founders of the Pakistan Human Rights Commission.
Tutor Pace

Online Math Tutoring- An Absolute Educational Resource | PRLog - 0 views

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    There was a time when traditional tutoring was the only method for children to meet their academic requirements. With the advancement in technology, online tutoring has now become a mainstream resource for easy and effective learning.
Katrina Miller

Living With the Less-than-Perfect - 0 views

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    Many people, on both sides of the biological family, have had bipolar disorder, depression or anxiety. My children are less-than-perfect. It's a genetic disease-they inherited it from me. There are times in life when we hurt each other.
Jessica Michael

Bluebonnet Elementary clubs bring African music, art to classmates in recent program | ... - 0 views

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    In Keller, TX an elementary school club is learning and teaching their peers about Tafadzwa. What started as a group with an interest in Afrian music and musical instruments has now turned into a much larger group of three clubs incorporating art, drama, and music. It started with homemade insturments from PVC pipes and a teacher who was looking to inspire children with music. If only all educators were as dedicated and passionate about their careeers.
Jessica Michael

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    When I came across this article in the paper it made me think of current discussion we had about "Public Schools for Private Advantage". We had mentioned what may happen if academic programs began to focus more on what skills will be needed to get a job rather than programs that may not provide as much monetary gains.
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    In Keller, TX an elementary school club is learning and teaching their peers about Tafadzwa. What started as a group with an interest in Afrian music and musical instruments has now turned into a much larger group of three clubs incorporating art, drama, and music. It started with homemade insturments from PVC pipes and a teacher who was looking to inspire children with music. If only all educators were as dedicated and passionate about their careeers.
Krissy Woods

Do Afterschool Programs Give Students a Boost? - 0 views

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    The benefits of afterschool programs are discussed in this article, including funding issues and risks for younger students who are unsupervised between the end of school and when their parents get home from work. Although the benefits of afterschool programs are widely known, many parents choose not to enroll their children in these programs for various reasons.
Krissy Woods

Montgomery Co. Touts 'Seven Keys to College Readiness' as an Academic Pathway - washing... - 0 views

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    A Montogomery County school has produced literature aptely named "Seven Keys to College Readiness".... which begins from performance in kindergarden. This brochure is aimed to provide information for parents who may or may not know the steps and milestones their children should be making en route to a college degree.
Krissy Woods

New York City Schools Face 5 Percent Budget Cut - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Keeping in trend with the current economic status, New York City schools are facing a 5% budget cut that will most likely effect much-needed after school and weekend programs. Although budgeting for the upcoming year has aided the children of low income families, it's still heartbreaking to see that these programs will be cut in favor of saving money... especially when they are probably the most important and needed.
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