“Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.” –Mason Cooley Did you ever think that teachers had to come up with ways to teach their students that reading could be fun? Or did you ever know that teachers cater to individual students interests and likes to get them hooked…
If given the option, would you rather read a novel or a graphic version of the same novel? Do you believe that graphic novels carry the meaty substance that other literary works can? Many have believed that comics and graphic novels are literary fluff, something students can read for fun in Sustained Silent Reading (SSR)…
So, in my last blog, I sort of jogged around the idea of Pastoral Counseling being an avenue for God to work through the counselor and the client in ways that help both of them grow in faith and in health. I mean for this blog to be a continuation of that, but to highlight…
There’s this notion (I’m not sure how widely it is held, but it exists) that those in the counseling field are in the field initially to learn how to fix themselves, or those in their environment, or perhaps both. And really, I don’t imagine that is too far off the mark, considering the amount of…
Questions people ask about Montessori: Is it that hippie school down the road that lets kids learn whatever they want? Is it possible to teach reading kinesthetically? Don’t they only teach kids how to pour and home economics? Don’t they clump all the grades and ages together? Well, the answer is all of those is essentially,…