Author: Matthew Lynch
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Healing Through Co-Regulation
Over the past few years, topics like self-regulation, trauma, attachment have been widely discussed in schools, counseling centers, and families. Moreover, people are starting to acknowledge ... -
A Teachers Guide to the Preoperational Stage
The preoperational stage is a developmental phase in which kids learn to represent things in the mind. The preoperational stage is known as the second stage ... -
A Guide to Externalizing Disorders
Externalizing is a psychiatric term associated with a problem with self-control. People with externalizing disorders have difficulty controlling emotions, impulses. Whereas internalizing manifests in directing emotions ... -
A Guide to Content Words
Every word in English belongs to one of the eight parts of speech. Every word is either a content word or a function word. Let’s talk ... -
A Guide to Expressive Language Disorder
Expressive language is a child’s way to communicate their thoughts and feelings through the use of words, sentences, and phrases. It is a significant indicator of ... -
Skimming: A Reading Comprehension Tool
This is reading that happens at a fast pace and is often used when trying to derive general ideas as to what a passage is about. ... -
How to Assign Roles for a Group Work Teaching Strategy in Your Classroom
Description Assigning learner’s roles can be an effective way to structure group work. Sometimes, specific learners assume too much responsibility for a group’s work, while other ... -
Implementing the Theory of Multiple Intelligences in Your Classroom
Description Learners have different learning styles (or more accurately, different learning preferences). One theory proposes that there are eight “intelligences.” A learner may have some that are ... -
Bring Novel Study to Your Classroom
If you decide to do a novel study with your students, you want the novel to be the central focus, not the assignments. There need to ... -
How to Use the Zone of Proximal Development Theory in Your Lesson Planning
Description A theory of learning developed by Lev Vygotsky states that children learn when they undertake difficult tasks beyond their capabilities and receive assistance to complete ...
