Our students come to us with many interests and talents. Music is one of them. Whether it’s Beethoven, the Beatles, Bon Jovi or (Justin) Bieber, tapping into their love of listening to music can help students become better readers. The two disciplines are innately very similar, and teachers and parents can take advantage of these similarities to help struggling readers become motivated learners.
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Ever since I first heard of Dr. Selznick’s book, The Shut-Down Learner, I have been in contact with this amazing educator! Reading it has changed my perspective on many of my students. @DrSelz has devoted his career to helping children who struggle in school find their way to success and realize their potential. Here, he [...]
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In these last few weeks of summer, I have been taking my two kids (4-year-old boy and 3-year-old girl) to Music Together, a music program for infants, toddlers and preschoolers. This is one of those great luxuries a teacher-parent has: to enjoy a family class such as this during the day in the summer. In [...]
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Autonomy is the ability to be self-governing, to have independence and the ability to make your own decisions. A few weeks back, I wrote a post called Happy Teachers, Happy Kids. In it, I made the case that when we have happy teachers, we can have happy students and part of that formula is to [...]
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Earlier this week I wrote a post called Reward Not! It was prompted by my getting multiple catalogs filled with colorful pages of those small, useless toys bought by teachers who keep them in their classrooms for rewards and prizes. In the same time frame, I was reading Drive by Daniel Pink. In this book, [...]
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I’ve been reading Drive by Daniel Pink and it is amazing. (I’ll be posting more about this book later this week.) At the same time, I’m receiving a variety of catalogs in the mail in anticipation for back to school. On the one hand I am learning about intrinsic motivation: the idea that we have [...]
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