How can teachers create emotionally safe classrooms?
You may have encountered times or heard of times where terrible events have happened to school campuses. Things like a shooting or other horrific events may have happened to a student’s family, which are made public. What can you do during such times where students have experienced trauma? How can you secure the […]
What Ethical Boundaries do Teachers Need to Maintain?
It is important for teachers, as professionals, to be culturally aware of how various habits and behaviors such as touch, eye contact, conversation topics, styles and personal space habits differ from person to person. Such awareness helps to set and maintain boundaries efficiently. There are many types of boundaries that we may encounter while […]
What is the process for creating an IEP for students with special needs?
Growing up can be very challenging for any child, especially if the child has any special needs. Each child is different and their problems may either be apparent from the start or surface as they begin school. If a child faces problems at school, then it is important to ascertain if it’s the […]
How teachers can use tools to support collaborative reading?
The capacity to collaborate to solve problems is said to be even more important for tomorrow’s workers than content knowledge. Two or more people working together have a better chance of solving a problem than one person working alone. Collaboration is increasingly important in the modern world, as we become more connected around […]
How can teachers understand the social development of autistic students?
Social Interactions are an integral part of our daily life. None of us live in isolation and learning to interact and communicate with people around us is essential to our survival, fulfillment and development. However, people with autism have marked deficits in their social interactions.
For the student with autism, their understanding of themselves […]
How can teachers ensure students never miss a deadline?
A student’s life is largely the summation of classes, assignments, tasks, co-curricular activities. It’s all about widening knowledge base, developing skills and pushing forward. Often, however, teachers find their students tumbling from one task to another and missing deadlines. Somewhere in the middle, many lose track of what they were supposed to do […]
