The Media’s Impact On Our Culture and Young Children
In 1950, when TV was in its infancy, in the entire United States only 170 persons under the age of fifteen were arrested for serious crimes such as murder, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. By 1979 the rate of serious crime committed by children under fifteen had...
Clever Organization Ideas for Teachers
I’m an organizing nut. My favorite store is not a clothing store, or a shoe store. My favorite store is the Container Store. And, I LOVE novel ways to repurpose items to create practical and inexpensive organizers for the home or classroom. So imagine my...
Vocabulary Interventions for Really Terrific Instruction (RTI)
Kinesthetic Strategies Increase Vocabulary Recall Many students who may need a vocabulary intervention are Bodily-Kinesthetic learners, meaning they learn through their bodies and they need to “move” their bodies in order to learn at their highest...
A Memory Strategy; Chunking, Processing, and Paraphrasing
Many students with learning disabilities struggle with memory deficit issues. Primarily, they forget information they need to do well on tests or to do the higher-level thinking required for problem solving, analysis, and synthesis. For example, students who struggle...