Kids start building life skills and coping strategies pretty much from birth, with each new developmental milestone laying the foundation for the next, as they learn how to relate to others and to problem-solve in evermore complex ways. As they get older and start school, kids learn reading, writing, and arithmetic. But what are the other essential life skills to teach kids?There are all sorts of life skills for kids — some basic, some fairly complex — that require mastery in order to have the sort of social, emotional and practical wherewithal to be good at life. According to child development experts, career planners, and business leaders, here’s where to start to ensure your kids are well-prepared for whatever (and...
[TAG0]I covered this chap before, but never quite appreciated his achievement. he essentially explored the whole known world over his whole lifetime and actually described hte peoples he ran into. No one had ever done that. It is his good fortune that arabic had become a sort of global lingua franca allowing his investigations.A combination of christian destruction of classical civilization along with arabic displacement had created global dark age in which few were actively literate the ancient standards. Yet his effort was a real map of existing peoples or tribes allowing a traveler to know who was ahead of him, just like those old nautical maps htat tracked coastlines. what he did was a legitimate mapping of the known world....
Friendship and inclusion can be complex skills to teach in special education. Using books in the classroom or therapy room is a great way to introduce friendship skills. Read on to see my favorite 4 books to teach friendship and inclusion. Book companions are a fun and engaging way to get students interacting with a read aloud picture book! When I was teaching I had a lot of difficulty finding leveled book companions that would meet the needs of students in my self-contained classroom, so I made my own. Here’s a look inside the best book companions for special education classrooms (Friendship themed). ((This blog post contains affiliate links for your convenience. You don’t pay any more by clicking my link (and I...
Morning Meeting is my favorite part of the school day! Having a daily meeting is an important part of the special education classroom. This time of day allows me to check-in with my students emotionally, work on social skills, and reinforce academic concepts! The structure of a morning meeting can look a little different for students who are in the intermediate grades (3 – 5) when compared to the primary years. Come and take a look at the morning meeting routine I use with my crew! Morning Meeting Timing We have special area class first thing in the morning, so I wait to have our meeting until after that. That way, I don’t have to rush through any of the...
In 1883, Evert Nymanover, a Swedish scholar at the University of Minnesota, proposed a new invention that some thought would affect the future of humankind: a device that played recordings of books. Nymanover called the device a “whispering machine” and suggested that it could be placed inside of a hat so that someone walking down the street or reclining in bed “could be perpetually listening” to great works of literature.Though mocked by some, Nymanover’s vision of a book recording in a hat wasn’t entirely far-fetched in 1883. After announcing the invention of the phonograph six years earlier, Thomas Edison turned almost immediately to the device’s implications for literature. He hoped to open a publishing house in New York that would...
