Communication-building in the Digital Age can be daunting. Adult communication with adolescents and pre-adolescents can be a challenge. While technology has made staying in touch with youth easier than ever -- with calls, texts and emails at our fingertips --,...
Yesterday, Rob shared how blogging has been beneficial for him. Today, he talks about how to go about getting started. I would like to start blogging, but how? Before I get into the most popular blogging systems, there are a...
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,...
In the 21st century, the definition of collaborative education and classroom management has undergone a massive overhaul. The increased access to educational technology such as computers and the World Wide Web as early as kindergarten have allowed students to learn...
[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...
[caption id="attachment_1182" align="alignleft" width="400" caption="Image courtesy of nokhoog_buchachon"][/caption] When most adults were in grades K-12, students with any sort of disability were often forced into separate special education classes designed to help them “keep up” with mainstream education as best...
Focus on EQ: Gratitude, Optimism, and Technology. In this holiday season, thoughts naturally turn to expressions of gratitude. Gratitude, it turns out, is one idea that’s also part of a larger movement called Positive Psychology, whose practitioners study health promoting...
During the middle of the twentieth century a psychologist name Benjamin Bloom created a classification system to identify levels of thinking. This arrangement is known as Bloom’s Taxonomy. Intellectual processes are ordered from the most basic, “knowledge” to the most...
As school counselors, we are typically among the minority when it comes to our professional roles as staff members within our school. Due to this, it can be quite difficult to effectively communicate and demonstrate school counseling department information,...
