Susan ‘s Articles for
Education
Susan ‘s Articles for
Education
Motivating vs Enabling: How to Motivate Students When They are Stuck
Mimicking vs. Being Forced to Think I have about a dozen children in my Martial Arts class. When teaching them their martial arts forms, we do a continuous series of moves. I stand in front of...
How to Talk to Angry Children and Teens
https://youtu.be/2Coiak4Gx7o Talking to Angry Children and Angry Teens When I taught high school, I often found myself in a position where I had to help angry teens come up with solutions for...
How to Secure Your Zoom Classroom From Hackers
Is Zoom is safe to use? I’ve had a number of teachers, specialists and administrators ask me if Zoom is safe to use and how to secure Zoom for their virtual classrooms. This is understandable...
Labeling Emotions Is Critical to Anger Management
Why Naming Emotions is Important for Managing Anger I created the Moodz poster for anger management when I realized that my students had trouble articulating what was truly making them angry....
Stop Trying to Motivate Struggling Students Until You Do This
Why students struggle Our students struggle for many reasons, but often there’s a bigger cause behind their struggles: schooling that doesn’t match their goals and interests. I’ve worked with...
Student Motivation – Three phrases that ignite student motivation and their desire to learn
Students are born motivated to learn They're motivated to touch, to taste, to crawl, to explore, to put things in their mouth. They're always learning. Then they start school. What happens to...
Why Knowing HOW to Learn is Necessary for 21st Century Learning
The Facts About 21st Century Learning Have you ever heard of the “Knowledge Doubling Curve?” First described by Buckminster Fuller in 1982[i], this curve notes that, until 1900, human knowledge...
Classroom Management – A Neat Way To Use A Noise Level Tracker In Your Classroom
I recently completed a training session with teachers in Alaska. As I almost always do, I learned a new classroom management strategy from a teacher in my audience – something I hadn’t thought of...
Dear Susan – Get a Handle on Horrible Handwriting
Dear Susan: My child has horrible handwriting / printing. It’s almost illegible. What can I do? A: This is a more common problem than most of us realize: A child grasps the basics of handwriting...
Why Grades are the Wrong Motivator: Motivate Students According to Who They Are
Motivate Students According to Who They Are In a performance-driven school culture, how do you keep kids motivated? I’ve always believed that there’s more than one way to motivate students. The...
Online Resources for Math Help
I was searching for some information on math help for a client and found a couple of websites that I felt I should pass on for others to enjoy. First, check out this page full of Free Mathematics...
Why Teaching Kids to Learn is Hard
I’m a huge fan of teaching students how they learn. It seems like that should be easy, right? NOT! The challenge is that not all students learn in the same way. And it’s the same for adults. We...