Tips to be a better teacher, engage and work with learning disabilities.
In our last blog post, we looked at what is Dyslexia. Now, having many decades dealing with this and getting through school, even college, graduate, and postgraduate school, as well as teaching students with learning disabilities, I picked up a few things that really work. Some of the key symptoms of dyslexia are learning very... Continue Reading →
According to science and my experiences having dyslexia, reading is hard and complex. Our eyes perceive images that connect to the brain to decipher these images. Then, they are computed and compared to recognized learned patterns of letters and languages positioned into the right order. Then, we have to place the words in an organized... Continue Reading →
Why did this happen? There is a thinking that to combine districts and close smaller schools to build a bigger one will be better. It’s seemed effective on paper. But, in real life experience, it is not. Especially when you consider the buildings and resources that go into it, all to create bigger inefficient bureaucracies. “Crowded classroom conditions not only... Continue Reading →
If you are a parent of a preteen or teenager and ventured onto a school campus, you may not recognize the setting and culture that was there when you were a student. If you are a teacher for more than twenty years you have seen vast changes in student behaviors, the rise of bullying and... Continue Reading →
Tips to learn how to be a better teacher and engage a class. Ideas on how to remove any bad habits and embrace new better models. Thoughts on working with special needs students and learning disabilities.
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