Editor’s Picks

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  The Most Important Features of Good Classroom Management

  Good classroom management is more than having all your students under your dictatorship. Proper classroom management involves mutual respect between teacher and students, and an understanding of the learning environment you want to set. What [...]

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  Helping Kids Connect by Strengthening Their Communication Skills

  Communication is both incredibly important and surprisingly elusive. Many adults struggle with effective communication. […]

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  The Social-Emotional Support Gap in Schools – And the Professionals Trained to Fill It

  If you’re reading this as a person who grew up in an era of chalkboards and textbooks, you might not fully understand or appreciate the concept of social-emotional instruction in the classroom. […]

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  Using Visual Math Creates Meaning

  Using visual math actually creates meaning.  Vickie Davis’ writes in “Making Math Meaningful with Virtual Math Manipulatives” that it is meant to lead teachers to new and exciting techniques that use visualization to explain the [...]

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  How Hand Games can Improve Motor and Cognitive Skills

  Playing games using your hands is an excellent way to improve motor and cognitive skills such as: hand-eye coordination, bilateral dexterity, motor planning and crossing the midline. Improving hand-eye coordination is an important task regardless of [...]