When your child enters the school classroom, the teacher has between 20 and 30 students to manage throughout the lesson. The key word in this sentence is “manage”. Classroom teachers have to spend a lot of time just managing a room full of learners even before the lesson even gets started. Taking attendance, making announcements [...]
One of the most challenging topics in a typical math class is the learning of fractions and their operations. Why does Johnny (Jenny) struggle with the concepts of fractions, decimals, and percentages? I believe that these ideas are not taught effectively in most elementary classrooms. Teachers tend to move quickly through the lessons at this [...]
All of us dream of impacting history in some way. We may not admit it, but as we work through our days, often we struggle to find a way that our lives have an impact on others to the point that we are noticed, or at least our efforts are noticed. Sometimes that happens for [...]
