Educational Links 7/7/16

 

How Teachers Can Help 'Quiet Kids' Tap Their Superpowers

http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/07/06/483272807/how-teachers-can-help-quiet-kids-tap-their-superpowers?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=morningedition&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20160706

Combating Racism in a Multicultural World: Classroom Ideas

http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/combating-racism-multicultural-classroom.shtml 

Too Rough, Too Rowdy: External Causes of Student Misbehavior

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/education_futures/2016/07/too_rough_too_rowdy_external_causes_of_misbehavior.html?cmp=SOC-EDIT-FB

How To Raise Brilliant Children, According To Science

http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2016/07/06/how-to-raise-brilliant-children-according-to-science/ 

Why Do We Label Our Students?

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/finding_common_ground/2016/07/why_do_we_label_our_students.html?cmp=SOC-EDIT-FB 

Summer Learning Challenge 2016

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ohGvlMoZqZ_3Aor0txiimgVuXSSRiS0ygpCO2yLmL0A/viewform?c=0&w=1 

‘It is easy to fall into the trap of doing things for pupils that they are capable of doing themselves’

https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-views/send-focus-it-easy-fall-trap-doing-things-pupils-they-are-capable 

It is easy to fall into the trap of doing things for pupils that they are capable of doing themselves. But this means we are effectively training students to only work if the TA is sat next to them. Instead, we must try to reduce the isolation of pupils with dyslexia from the teacher and from peers by equipping them with the strategies that will allow them to fully participate in their new secondary environment.