For the Duke press releases, I’d been in touch with my editor there from my work over the summer, and met in person at a SciLine event in Chapel Hill (the program director at the AAAS fellowship had asked me to get in touch with him to encourage Duke to sponsor a fellow for this...
I have a unique job where I teach learning support in the morning and gifted in the afternoon. The students in my school are all close and love working together. The learning-support students benefit from the repetitiveness of the songs. The gifted students are obsessed with the challenge of...
After stratification by municipality, twelve schools were randomized to either an intervention group or a control group, comprising a total of 505 children with mean age 7.2 ± 0.3 years. The intervention was a 9-month classroom-based PA program that involved integration of PA into the math ...
One does not get all of these at once, but a good mathematics program has them as goals and makes incremental steps toward them at all levels. —Richard Askey, quoted in Elementary Mathematics for TeachersI learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me. —...
However, these gear is no guarantee and you should remain vigilant, especially with younger kids. Watch Out for Insect Bites Finally, make sure to protect them from insect bites as much as you can. Although there are venomous insects in the United States, the more common danger is from ...
After stratification by municipality, twelve schools were randomized to either an intervention group or a control group, comprising a total of 505 children with mean age 7.2 ± 0.3 years. The intervention was a 9-month classroom-based PA program that involved integration of PA into the math ...
believing that giftedness is innate and unchangeable. This mindset may lead to limited expectations for their gifted students’ academic growth and a lack of differentiation in instruction. In contrast, teachers with a growth mindset view giftedness as a malleable trait that can be developed through...