Every young student in America should know the four art disciplines; dance, music, theater, and visual arts. These four art disciplines are as important as math, science, english, history, civics, government, geography, and foreign language. In the following essay I will discuss each of the four art disciplines and describe how they should be taught. ...
Educational standards have been a hot topic in recent years. Too many teenagers are graduating from high school without having learned basic skills like reading, writing, and math. In order to address this problem, schools, school districts, states, and even the federal government have upped educational standards. Following this trend, Washington state has raised the ...
The Multiple Intelligence Theory was developed by Howard Gardner in the early 1980’s and further developed in the early 1990’s. Gardner had experience working with gifted children as well as brain-injured adults and he discovered that intelligence manifests itself through several different areas. Gardner defines intelligence as the capacity to solve problems and create products ...
Piaget’s learning theory is based on stages that children go through in order to learn. In each stage, the learning process is different and a little more complex. Piaget believed that children should play, experiment and reason in order to learn. He believed that humans couldn’t be given information that they immediately understand. Humans have ...
Some students learn best by watching; others learn best by listening, and still others learn best by doing, by moving, and by becoming physically involved with the material to be mastered. This latter group are known as kinesthetic learners. These are the children who are often labelled “hyperactive”; they like to be constantly moving. They ...
I asked myself this question in 2008. I was a stay at home mom with two kids in diapers. I didn’t have time to go to the mailbox some days so how was I going to drag my sleep deprived body into a classroom two or three days a week. I started researching some ...
When I was teaching my Special Education Classroom, I created several lesson review games that kept my children’s interest. I had an EMH or educable mentally handicapped class. These children were from 55 to 75 IQ range. These children responded well to either tactile or kinesthetic learning. Tactile is of course where you use your ...
Today, numerous courses at undergrad level utilize PowerPoint slides. The usual style of teaching is that the students print off the slides prior to the class, read the corresponding pages in the textbook, and attend lecture to hear the professor discussing the PowerPoint slides in the order they are presented. To a certain degree, PowerPoint ...
There are four basic styles of learners. They are visual, auditory, tactile, and kinesthetic. Each style of learner needs different strategies in order to learn effectively. Writing a lesson plan for all learner types takes a bit of time and practice. By teaching to all four styles, students will learn better as every style is ...
Whether you homeschool or not, it’s useful to know how your child learns best. Sometimes it is equally helpful to know your particular learning style too, to understand how your child’s learning style and yours mesh—or clash. My daughter and I share the Read/Write learning style, but it sure opened my eyes when I found ...
