Gideon Grammar One with Videos
Grammar knowledge is the foundation to good writing and speaking. Poor grammar can lead to confusion. Poor grammar skills are not well received by employers and college professors. It is important to have proper grammar to get your point across properly in a speech,...
5 Ways to Ace Standardized Testing
Standardized testing has permeated our society for all ages, including some for 3 year olds at elite private pre-schools. While you may agree or disagree with its usefulness, likely you have to deal with it either for yourself or your child. If we're going to do...
10 Ways to Avoid Summer Slide
Summer slide is the term used to describe the loss of skills many students experience during the time off from school. This article reports that a Duke University professor's study found students may lose one to three months of learning. Cooper’s study also showed...
Handwriting Matters
With typing on keyboards becoming the norm and cursive seemingly becoming a lost art, does handwriting matter? Does it help us in any way? The article, How Handwriting Trains the Brain, at WSJ.com highlights new research which proves it be beneficial in cognitive...
Ways to Make Your Children Smarter
In this article on Barking Up the Wrong Tree blog, the author gives a great list of ways to improve your child’s academic performance. Here are a few. 1) Get Good Sleep While this may seem like basic knowledge, many students today are doing more and more activities...
Mistakes Can Create Success
Intelligence is the measure of the brain's ability to acquire and apply certain knowledge and skills. We know the human brain can grow, change, and even rewire itself to meet new standards. This ability of the brain is called brain plasticity. By correcting mistakes,...
Intelligence is NOT fixed
Many people wrongly believe intelligence is fixed at birth. Many factors will affect school performance such as stable family life, proper nutrition, and parent involvement in studies, but genetics is usually NOT one of them. This article at Quartz written by 2...
Math at Sea with Logarithms
For more: go HERE to the Ed.Ted.com site to answer questions and get more resources about this lesson such as more history about Napier shown in the video below. Some insight into the Lattice method is shown as well.
A Case for Algorithms
In THIS article, "The Faulty Logic of The Math Wars" in the New York Times, Alice Crary, a philosophy professor, and W. Stephen Wilson, a math professor argue that the ideals that math reformists claim to be working towards when removing standard algorithms (such as...
Parents, education starts with you!
This is a heart warming article from washingtonpost.com about how one girl is so grateful for her father's involvement and interest in her education as it really made a difference. Here’s a sweet Fathers Day piece by Santa Clara University student Nicole Pal about how...
Ways to Make Your Children Smarter
In this article on Barking Up the Wrong Tree blog, the author gives a great list of ways to improve your child’s academic performance. Here are a few. 1) Get Good Sleep While this may seem like basic knowledge, many students today are doing more and more activities...
Mistakes Can Create Success
Intelligence is the measure of the brain's ability to acquire and apply certain knowledge and skills. We know the human brain can grow, change, and even rewire itself to meet new standards. This ability of the brain is called brain plasticity. By correcting mistakes,...
Intelligence is NOT fixed
Many people wrongly believe intelligence is fixed at birth. Many factors will affect school performance such as stable family life, proper nutrition, and parent involvement in studies, but genetics is usually NOT one of them. This article at Quartz written by 2...
Parents, education starts with you!
This is a heart warming article from washingtonpost.com about how one girl is so grateful for her father's involvement and interest in her education as it really made a difference. Here’s a sweet Fathers Day piece by Santa Clara University student Nicole Pal about how...
Kick off summer reading!
Summer is here! Camp! Swimming! All day play! Reading!
Wait, what?
Yes, reading! Think of all the time now your child has to get lost in a book. This is a great way to avoid the summer slide of losing some of the great comprehension skills gained during school year. Your child can read about new places and fun experiences while gaining vocabulary and background knowledge that will aid in the fall.
Embrace the Mistakes
No one enjoys mistakes, but we all make them. Did you ever think it could be beneficial to admit to them? Kathryn Schulz, the author of Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error writes about the good side to being wrong in this article. Is there anything at...
3 Methods to get kids to WANT to read and write
The Washington Post blog, Answer Sheet, ran an article about developing self-driven learning in students from a new book by veteran educator Larry Ferlazzo. Daniel Pink describes in his book, Drive, that the development of intrinsic motivation needs autonomy,...
Early number sense plays a role in later math skills
On Joanne Jacob's blog, she highlighted a recent AP article discussing the correlation between early number sense and math ability several years later. The University of Missouri study found that 7th graders who struggled were the same ones who struggled in 1st...
Real Life 101: How Do We Make Students Aware of the Working World?
In this blog post at edweek.org, Illina Garon discusses how her many of her 10th grade students don't believe they will need math or English for their future jobs. I was incredulous. "You want to be astronauts, and you think you're not going to need math?" I turned to...
This is your brain, and THIS is your brain on books!
HERE is a great article from Open Education Database about 10 positive changes that happen to your brain when you read and listen to books. Below are some of the highlights. We make photos in our minds, even without being prompted Researchers have found that visual...