The summer slump… it’s a phrase that educators all over the country know and dread. It’s a phrase used to describe what happens to many students during the summer months when they are not in school participating in the day-to-day routine of learning. What is the Summer Slump? Many students who return to school after…
Parent Workshop: Helping with Homework
Practice Makes Perfect? Maybe Not… We’ve all heard the expression,” practice makes perfect.” However, in a teacher’s world, it’s not really true. If the practice work is done incorrectly, it takes three times as long to reteach the right method. That’s not time well spent. A teacher’s amended expression would be,” perfect practice makes…
Encouraging Summer Reading
Summer slide is the term teachers use to describe the learning loss between grades over the summer. While once scoffed at, research has proven the summer slide is in fact a real phenomenon. One of the ways to stop it is by encouraging summer reading. These three ideas come from Really Good Teachers who have…