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Educational Article Indices From Kidsource.com
On this page will find several educational article indices from kidsource.com. These indices have been selected for their broad areas of interest and exceptional content. The articles have been selected with the practitioner in mind. Each article within an index includes a brief synopsis to help you easily identify articles of interest.
Teaching Children with Attention Deficit Disorder
With 3 to 5% of our school-age population affected by ADD, almost every classroom can be impacted. While this article is oriented toward the classroom teacher, it can also help parents of children with ADD do better in school. It includes topics such as "establishing the proper learning environment", "giving assignments", "modifying behavior and enhancing self-esteem". This article also includes other educational recommendations and a resource list.
Good or Bad, What Teachers Expect from Students They Generally Get!
Most teachers know a little bit about the Pygmalion effect, or the idea that one's expectations about a person can eventually lead that person to behave and achieve in ways that confirm those expectations. Few educators understand exactly how to use the Pygmalion effect or self-fulfilling prophecy to convey positive expectations and, maybe even more importantly, to avoid conveying negative expectations. While written for teachers, this article can and should be used by parents and caregivers.
Coping with Stress in the Special Education Classroom
Despite the current trend toward school-based decision making, many schools remain bureaucratic organizations where teachers have little control over major decisions in their environments and frequently work in isolation. Further, with increasing demands to be accountable, teachers' work is becoming more intense, leaving many teachers feeling emotionally exhausted. Thus, in school bureaucracies, teachers may become stressed by role overload and lack of autonomy. Teachers can more effectively deal with stress by using specific strategies discussed in this article.
Partners in Learning: How Schools Can Support Family Involvement In Education
Despite the many advantages of partnerships, schools and families remain disconnected in too many communities. There are many reasons why schools and families fail to work together. This article discusses how this happens and it provides practical suggestions for how parents and schools can work more closely together to better educate our children. In conclusion, the authors promote that school-family partnerships are important way to help children learn and a great way for schools and families to help each other.
Preventing and Resolving Parent-Teacher Differences
Parents and teachers share responsibility for creating a working relationship that fosters children's learning. This digest discusses how to improve parent-teacher relationships and it suggests some general strategies for creating a climate in which misunderstandings and disagreements between parents and teachers can be minimized through improved communication. It also discusses some general principles for parents and teachers in dealing with misunderstandings or disagreements as they arise.
The Teacher's Role in Developing Social Skills
The Learning Disabilities Association of California describes the critical role that school plays in the child's social development and self-concept, whether the student has learning disabilities or is enjoying academic success.
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