Philosophers, educators, physicians, psychiatrists and psychologists have been stressing the importance of play for many, many years. It is a common belief that childhood play is a critical and necessary component of positive childhood growth and development. After reading so...
Good morning CW Readers! I hope, like me, you all had a restful and family-filled holiday weekend. This morning, I wanted to take the opportunity to share two interesting stories with you. The first is about a really important topic,...
[caption id="attachment_1481" align="alignleft" width="253" caption="Image courtesy of criminalatt"][/caption] As educators, there are many issues that we face daily. Between funding restraints, student issues, and parental and administrative strife, the job is less-than-ideal for the most experienced among us. K-12 teaching,...
[caption id="attachment_1467" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Image courtesy of pixtawan"][/caption] Dyslexia is a really complex learning disability and one that, more often than not, is misunderstood and misdiagnosed. Children and adults with dyslexia are often just as capable academically as their peers,...
It’s Monday morning and if you all are anything like I am, the stress of the week is especially apparent as you sit down at your desks or stand up at the heads of your classrooms. We’re at the end...
[caption id="attachment_1422" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Image courtesy of Salvatore Vuono"][/caption] Special education teachers are in a precarious position in the public schools of today. With the pressure to perform on standardized tests via NCLB the threat of the unknown with the...
This morning on CW News, I want to offer a variety of articles that touch on some of CW’s most popular subjects. The first comes from Education Week blogger Nirvi Shah who reports on a the Easter Seals foundation and...
[caption id="attachment_1392" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Image courtesy of arztsamui"][/caption] As a college educator, the topic of technology is of extreme interest to me. At least one of the courses that I teach each semester is online, while I have also dabbled...
The importance of self-regulation and cognitive development in the early years is something that many teachers know about but few truly understand. In the age of testing and academic advancement, the focus on early cognitive development and social skills is...
As educators, we know that all of our efforts, though well-intentioned and well-studied, pale in comparison to the lessons taught by our students’ first teachers – their parents. Parental engagement in the educational process has definitively proven to help students...
For 1 in every 10 students, learning to read will be a far more difficult exercise than it should be. For a variety of reasons, literacy and learning to read, a skill unique to the human being, can take longer...
[caption id="attachment_1291" align="alignleft" width="400" caption="Image courtesy of arztsamui"][/caption] Over the past few months, I have had the opportunity to address the issue of gifted education but a handful of times. As a former gifted student myself who, in many ways,...
