Simplicity is the mother of all virtues for it encompasses everything else that is important. Simplicity is a characteristic that talks about the individual’s freedom, knowledge, humility, big picture and deep thinking, humanness, meaning, temperance, empathy, patience, conscientiousness, preservation, and protection. When you gather a lot of knowledge in life, you’ll realize that if you …
Being good in vocabulary is a foundational skill for all children. English root words can help children to quickly get a grasp of a wide range of common vocabulary. As the name suggests, it helps in learning about the evolution of the word and looking at words as separate meaningful parts than some mumbo-jumbo that …
About the Game: There is a monster chasing the player. Avoid sharks and jellyfish on your way as they push you to the edge of the ocean. You lose if you get eaten by the monster. Score as many points that you can till you are eaten by the sea monster. Steps of the Game: …
Third grade is a benchmark year for kids in the primary grades, and students and teachers alike feel that a bit. There is an age-old saying that until the third grade children learn to read and after the third grade children read to learn. From the fourth grade onwards, the focus shifts from learning abilities …
Educators don’t often talk about compassion and love for children. This is because essentially we live in a world that mostly prizes only quantifiable consumerism and materialistic individual achievements. The education industry too reflects the same with its focus on accountability and measurement. Love and compassion enables teachers to see teaching as an art where …
Critical thinking is the suspension of judgement while identifying biases and underlying assumptions in order to draw accurate conclusions. Critical thinking is among the most important causes of change in kids for their overall development, and especially to do well in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) areas. For a teacher, there is probably …
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There is no doubt that developing leisure reading in children opens doors for real individual development. Reading skills for children opens new avenues to learn about various domains, develop imagination and story development, improve language skills and vocabulary and many more. To me, the most important door that reading opens is individual self-development in kids …
This is about how humans (adults and kids) have different types of intelligence and how to understand oneself within those spheres of intelligence.