How to use an Abacus?
Our years of Abacus teaching experience have taught us that initially teaching kids how to use an Abacus tool is extremely important. Consequently, now we start our Abacus learning programs by introducing the kids to the use of the tool. While the …
Little BigShots UK
Little Big Shots is all about showing you some of the funniest and most talented children you’ll ever meet from all over the world . But this isn’t a competition, we’re not here to judge and there are no prizes – just …
4 Learning Management System Design Tips For Better eLearning
We’re obsessed with data these days, and for good reason: it’s relatively easy to get if you know what you’re looking for. While you won’t be able to identify everything that’s useful upfront, take a step back, and evaluate what you’d hope …
The Importance Of Intrinsic Motivation for Students
Senior students often invoke the mantra “I have to do well at school in order to get into university” when asked about reasons for attending and doing well. This can be a genuine motivational factor, especially in families where the expectation is …
A Better Alternative To Grading Student Writing
Great writing starts at the beginning, whether with an idea or need or purpose of social context or spark of inspiration. Whatever it is that ’causes’ the writing to begin–what’s wrought there at the beginning is kind of like a lump of …
It’s Time To Think Differently About Writing In The Classroom
Limiting the craft of writing to a single content area has altered the landscape of students’ minds in ways that are only now being revealed as math teachers are told to teach writing. Students are now used to flinging rudimentary understandings on …
Back To School Social-Emotional Basics: Relationship, Rhythm, Release
As our elementary students head back to school in person, in this very new way, there will be many emotions stirred up in them. Alarm. Frustration. Worry. Excitement. And this will be mirrored by what we, as adults, may also be experiencing. …
The Challenge Of Global Learning In Public Education
In high-stakes testing environments prevalent in many formal learning institutions, the focus is on standards and standard-mastery. ‘Globalization’ is a haughty kind of ‘pie in the sky’ idea thought about only when watching one of the “Shift Happens” videos on YouTube, or …
Exactly How Technology Can Make Reading Better
Through apps with social components, readers can be connected through texts. Reading groups, reading contests, reasons for reading, book suggestions, building social credibility for the process of reading, and more are possible when reading is, at least on some level, a social …
