Children connect with stories and themes that they know. If something is recognizable to them in a book, they will often relate to it in a way that draws similarities to the people and events in their own lives. Through this familiarity, reading becomes more enjoyable and serves a stronger purpose towards promoting successful literacy outcomes. Teachers who work with … Read More
The Benefits of Professional Development Webinars for Teachers
Webinar. A funny sounding combination of “web” and “seminar” to create a keyword often used in today’s digital online marketplace to describe a useful and convenient teaching method that is becoming more widely relied upon in a number of industries. The theory behind the webinar is to provide a personal, face-to-face approach to teaching without the need for the teacher … Read More
Promoting an Anti-Bias Curriculum in Elementary Schools
Today’s world reflects many faces. Implementing a curriculum that acknowledges and supports the significant diversities among culture, race, gender, and socioeconomics, just to name a few, in elementary schools fosters a positive development of tolerance from a young age. Children can be perfectly blunt in their assessments and they are able to perceive differences between people who are like them … Read More
Avoiding the Obstacles to Parent Involvement
Avoiding the Obstacles to Parent Involvement – Helpful Resources When it comes to providing a good Parent Involvement program at your school, you may be faced with many obstacles. To start with, which languages are spoken at your school by the parents of the children who attend your school? There may be many languages, so where do you start? Here … Read More