Today’s Guest Blogger is Jan Pierce from Elementary Education Degree. With the end of the year around the corner, it seems like a great time to try a new arts integration idea. She provides you with 10! Let us know if you try something out. ~EMP With all the studies out that show how arts [...]
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Today, Daniela Baker from the consumer credit education website, CreditDonkey shares some easy-to-do activities that will help develop the creative side of your child. Enjoy! ~EMP It is important for parents to understand that physical development and cognitive development do not occur at the same rate. While physical development may progress over a period of [...]
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How can a piece of cardboard become an inspiration for students? Read on… I finally got the big package in the mail: a large book that I can use to teach some reading strategies and skills to small groups. It looked like a good fine in the Scholastic catalog, so I used some of my [...]
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Kristina Peterson offers us this beautiful piece on teaching. Enjoy. ~EMP …then a different question presented itself: “Am I a good teacher?” And he had to answer, “No, I’m not – not always. For teaching is an art: Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn’t” (Strafford, The Muses Among Us 2003, 70). Once upon a [...]
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If there’s one thing that’s overlooked in education, it’s professional development where teachers are able to feed their own fires. Sound corny? Ya, a little bit, but it’s true! If you want to know why I said it that way, read this post where I first started talking about feeding our flames. But basically, what [...]
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Last night I felt like such a VIP! I was one of only 300 people to attend the Google event in Philly at the Museum of Natural History during the ISTE conference. Now 300 people may sound like a lot, but out of the nearly 11,000 people here at the conference, I’d say that’s pretty [...]
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Ever sit with an object and tried to figure out all the things it could do? What noises it could make… How it could move… What you could pick up with it… Then you’ve experienced “poking a box.” Ever take a camera and shoot a photo of the same thing multiple times? What angle should [...]
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It’s a procedure on airplanes that attendents review each time passengers board the aircraft: In case of emergency, put your oxygen mask on first and then assist those around you. The idea is that if you take care of yourself first, you will be better able to care for your child or another passenger that may [...]
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I hear this a lot and have often found myself saying it as well. But after years of dabbling in this and that, I’ve stopped. After trying things out, failing and still enjoying myself, I’ve stopped. All it took was the right people allowing me to explore my own creative side, teaching me a few [...]
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