Home Schooling: The Benefits To Your Children
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Home schooling is considered to be very beneficial for kids. A wise man even puts it that if we teach our children to have courage, faith and endurance and show them how to learn, they will in turn teach us to laugh, sing and to love. To put it simply, each of the members of [...]
Do You Teach Children With Autism?
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If you teach children with autism, we’d like to express our gratitude. Children with special needs can’t make it without your help.
Strolling through the mall on a Saturday morning, Miss Drew sees a Spiderman toy. Knowing how much her 3rd grade student will love it, she buys it instantly. Thank you! You have [...]
Engaging Today’s Sophisticated Young Learners
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For educators, finding ways to engage today’s sophisticated young students is a constant challenge. These kids read much less than their parents and grandparents, and spend considerably more time interfacing with screens of one kind or another. Rather than fighting this trend, teachers can use the new technologies to their advantage, and find innovative ways [...]
What Makes a Preschool Curriculum Creative?
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There is such a treasure chest of invaluable resources on preschool learning both on and offline, that teachers often find it hard to pick and choose activities for their class. However, the important thing is to make core concepts interesting to the children and good enough to be absorbed quickly and effectively.
In order to [...]
A Brief History of Modern Universities
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The earliest example of a university depends primarily on how you define the word. The earliest universities, when taken to mean an institution of higher learning with teachers, scholars, and students that awards degrees at every level of learning, would be 9th century madrasahs of the medieval Middle East. The word madrasah literally [...]
Tips on Home Schooling Your Child
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So you have made the decision. You are going to have your child home schooled. Now the hard work begins on your part. You must now investigate the best institution that will help you design and find the right home school teacher for your child. There are many out there so [...]
Prep Schools - What Are The Pros and Cons?
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Canadian prep schools offer high school students a unique experience. Approximately six percent of all students in Canada attend prep school. In prep school, your child will get exposure to a wide variety of programs designed to make him or her a well rounded person. Prep schools traditionally have a strong academic and athletic focus, [...]
What Does Music in Our Schools Mean to Your Child?
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Since 1985, March has been officially designated Music In Our Schools Month (MIOSM). Who designated it as such? The MENC, The National Association for Music Education is the group responsible for heightening the awareness of the importance of music in our schools. It is a time of year when music education becomes [...]
Home Schooling, Good or Bad
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It is a huge decision to make with regards to having your child home schooled or not. Many parents with the way the world is have decided to remove their children from the traditional school setting and have them home schooled. These parents truly feel that the traditional school setting is far too [...]
Homeschooling The Young Children
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In recent years, homeschooling has become extremely popular especially among the middle and upper class families. There have been many arguments before about homeschooling. Experts claim that there are advantages as well as disadvantages but it seems the former outweighs the latter and a lot of families are now choosing it over the traditional schools.
Cultures [...]