Helping Kids With Dyslexia
A reading clinician and English as an Additional Language teacher in Western School Division, Southwest Manitoba, Valdine Bjornson, frequently uses the Handwriting Without ...
Learning Styles
Preventing the Summer Slide
Summer vacation brings a certain amount of relief and anxiety. Everyone looks forward to the break, but the absence of classes can create the possibility that students will ...
Lost Boys
Boys seem to be falling behind girls in our society, especially in education. For several years now, there have been discussions and articles about how boys seem to struggle ...
The Attraction of Unicycles: A Lesson for Learning Complex Skills
A kid is approaching the school perched atop a single wheel. He moves in short sporadic bursts coinciding with each pedal stroke. He seems to defy gravity as it is hard to ...
Implementing 4 Types of Memory in your Classroom
Triggering different types of memory to improve students long-term storage.
Prevent “Learning Loss” during Summer Break
The ‘summer slide' is the information and skills children forget during summer break from the end of one school year to the beginning of the next school year
Improve Learning with Colour
A survey of more than 1,000 students say colour helps them learn
The Law of Unexpected Consequences: A Better Way of Learning
In the real world, subjects overlap, and taking a broader view of
Why Boys Aren’t Learning
Often, what a student naturally enjoys or is inclined toward will determine his or her success in various school subjects; but what if today’s classroom and curriculum ...
Different Learning Styles
When trying to instill values in children, “Kids are like modeling clay.” However, when attempting to analyse the way they learn, there is an urgency to allow kids to “unmold.”