Educational Links 12/6/17

How To Motivate 80,000 Teachers

https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/12/03/564825033/how-to-motivate-60-million-teachers

Dyslexia Testing Results: What They Mean for Instruction and Supports

https://www.understood.org/en/school-learning/evaluations/evaluation-basics/dyslexia-testing-results-what-they-mean-for-instruction-and-supports?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=understoodorg 

Four essential ingredients to teaching reading comprehension

https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-views/four-essential-ingredients-teaching-reading-comprehension

Can the Return of Outdoor Play Stop Our Kids’ Obsession with Screens?

https://www.childrenandnature.org/2017/12/01/can-the-return-of-outdoor-play-stop-our-kids-obsession-with-screens/

An Assembly Line of Coding Students? Tough Questions for the Computer Science Movement

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2017-12-05-an-assembly-line-of-coding-students-tough-questions-for-the-computer-science-movement?utm_content=buffer33121&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Global Reading Scores Are Rising, But Not for U.S. Students

https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2017/12/05/global-reading-scores-are-rising-but-not.html?cmp=SOC-EDIT-FB

Does Your Child Have a Learning Disability? Take This Self-Test

https://www.additudemag.com/does-your-child-have-a-learning-disability-take-this-self-test/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=diagnosis

LD is a neurologically based disorder that results in problems processing and using information. Different children have different patterns of learning strengths and weaknesses; there is no one profile that describes all children. Here is a learning disability test that will give you clues about whether your child has an LD.