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The Case Against Gold Stars
Call it the "gold-star syndrome." Sometimes we paste stars on a chart. At other times we offer toys or extra TV, candy or cash, pizza or special privileges. We reward kids for doing what we want instead of punishing them for disobeying. Pull out a child-care book at random -- or just watch a ...
Source: Alfie Kohn
How Students Learn in Differentiated Classrooms
No one knows better than a parent that children differ in so many ways. Kids may look alike and know the same jokes, but they are not made from a single recipe. For that reason, no single recipe can tell teachers how kids should learn, right? That's why a teaching method called "differentiated ...
Source: EduGuide
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Student Learning in Small Schools: Learning in a New Key
Learning in a New Key "In my old school I did little pieces of everything, but it didn't really stick to my brain....
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Changing our thinking on Developmentally Appropriate Practice
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire” (Yeats, W.B. 2007). When your child completes...
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Measuring Learner Success
"Reading Recovery...teaches children how to read and reduces the number of students who are labeled 'learning disabled'...
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Turn Your Street Into a Classroom!
Your preschooler is learning her letters and numbers, but she won't sit still and work with her magnetic alphabet....
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The High/Scope Preschool Daily Routine
High/Scope programs follow a predictable sequence of events known as the daily routine. This provides a structure within...
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