Author: Matthew Lynch
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Using Picture Books to Help Children See and Talk About Math All Around Them
The use of cross-curricular tools can help children absorb and retain new knowledge better, and can help make learning challenging subjects less frustrating. Using picture books ... -
Young Children’s Racial Identity Matters
Children may be born colorblind, but they don’t stay that way. It is important that adults recognize and address the role that racial identity plays in ... -
Welcoming Children Who Are Gender Fluid Into Our Early Childhood Spaces
Children are not born knowing their own gender. They learn to embrace gender stereotypes based on what they see and experience from other children, adults, and ... -
Mathematics Intervention: Strategies to Help Students Catch Up
More students struggle with math than any other subject. Parents may provide a struggling student with out-of-class tutoring, but this often proves unsuccessful. When a student ... -
Science Intervention: Strategies to Help Students Catch Up
Many students struggle in STEM-related subjects: science, technology, engineering, and math. Struggling in science can be disheartening for students, their parents, and their teachers. As students ... -
The Art of Asking Questions to Facilitate Inquiry Learning
Inquiry learning, or inquiry-based learning, is about triggering a student’s curiosity. With this model, classrooms tend to be more student-driven than teacher-focused. With inquiry learning, a ... -
Sensory Science: Connecting Children’s’ Science Learning to Their Sensory Play
Sensory play is any activity that stimulates one or more of a child’s five senses: sight, smell, touch, taste, and hearing. Different forms of sensory play ... -
Early Geometry Concepts: Making Connections to the Real World
Geometry is a branch of mathematics relating to shape, size, and spatial reasoning. While geometry in the traditional sense is usually taught at the high school ... -
Five Ways in Which Stubbornness Can Impede Educational Leadership
As educators, we all know that every teacher and administrator has their own individual style of leadership and instruction. Most of the time this diversity of ... -
Blocks, Rocks, and Robots: Nurturing Computational Thinking in Early Childhood
Computational thinking can be related to computers and computer science, as its name would suggest. But, more broadly, computational thinking is the ability to analyze and ...
