PA KEYS Consulting

H As an educator, I often find myself thinking about the state of our public schools, and how “No Child Left Behind” has forced many teachers to start “teaching to the test.”

How can our public schools do a better job reaching our children?

Children, like adults, fall into one or more categories of learning preference, kinesthetic, auditory or visual and have multiple intelligences for learning potential.

The delivery system, or pedagogy, for presenting information has, for the most part, been the same for more than 75 years.

Though much has been done to improve curriculum from a content perspective, it is the method in which people receive information and then are offered opportunities to interpret and apply information that are the highest forms of learning.

 

As a member on the National Child Care Board of Directors, member of the conference committee and chair of the Member Services Committee I was involved in the surveys we would send out to our members. At the top of every school Director’s list of desired professional development for staff was training on classroom management and how to discipline. The reason for this, as it is in most school environments, classroom management is paramount to a healthy learning environment. Children act inappropriately for a variety of reasons causing stress and tension for other students and staff. So what are the best proven methods for teachers to implement in the classroom as well as for parents to implement at home?

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