Want your child to learn how to get better grades? You can help them to help themselves. Helping your child to plan, prioritize, and create strong study skills when they’re young will help them succeed throughout their education. When your child strives toward good grades, they’re not just getting the end result of those better grades, they’re learning more through the … [Read more...] about Help Your Child Learn How To Get Good Grades In Middle School
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What To Do When Your Child Does Poorly In School
Is your child struggling in school? When your child does poorly in school, it can feel confusing and frustrating. If you are wondering what to do and how to handle your child failing at school, I am happy to have Zoe Evergreen to share some advice on this matter. Zoe runs a private tutoring business and is the head writer of designsbyevergreen.com which is dedicated to … [Read more...] about What To Do When Your Child Does Poorly In School
Encourage The Strengths In Your Child
My nine year old son is at math camp this week. Yep, math camp. It wasn't exactly the destination that he was hoping for but it is turning out great all the same. A surprise to me since he struggled a little early in his school career with math and a surprise to him because he has never considered himself one of the "brainy" kids - or as he puts it "Dad, I am not a nerd!" Well … [Read more...] about Encourage The Strengths In Your Child
Free Online Education Courses
Erika Wassall, the Jersey Farm Scribe here, with a big, "Did you know????" Did you know that there are free online education courses, put out by really big colleges all over the world, that are available online… for free? I didn’t. Real quick, let me make this clear. No one asked me to write this in any way. There is no bias here. I’m just a random person who came … [Read more...] about Free Online Education Courses
Executive Functioning Skills Children Should Know
There are several executive functioning skills children should come to master in order to make their lives easier and allow them to be more successful in their endeavors. But first, what is executive function? As Carolyn Carpeneti defines it, executive function is "the ability to plan, organize, manage time, initiate action, and achieve goals." The executive function skills … [Read more...] about Executive Functioning Skills Children Should Know
Parent-Teacher Conference Tips
Here we are again, fall, the time of year when the leaves start to change color, there’s a nip in the air, and parent-teacher conferences loom before us. Fall parent-teacher conferences are very important. As parents, we have the opportunity to get a baseline for the year as to where our children are academically, socially and behavior-wise. It’s also the perfect chance to get … [Read more...] about Parent-Teacher Conference Tips
Celebrate National Geography Awareness Week
According to National Geographic, Geography Awareness Week (GeoWeek) was created to raise awareness to a dangerous deficiency in American education and excite people about geography as both a discipline and as a part of everyday life. GeoWeek is celebrated the third week of November every year (this year it's November 16-22). The National Geographic Society uses National … [Read more...] about Celebrate National Geography Awareness Week