For teachers, the most difficult part of their job is managing children’s behavior. While they want to spend their time teaching and passing knowledge along to children, they instead seem to spend their days intervening in arguments, calming out of control children and trying to get others to just stay in their seat for a few minutes. For a teacher, this is frustrating. Many teachers who leave the teaching profession do so because of their frustration with their student’s behavior.
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In my last installment, with the help of my colleagues, I tried to explain how teachers can work effectively with children with dyslexia,... Read more »
The following books have not been reviewed by me and being on this list should not be considered an endorsement of the books. The... Read more »
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The teenage years are enough to make any parent cringe. Living with a teen is spending your days waiting for the next battle to erupt, only to be... Read more »