By Alessa|2020-04-14T18:28:31-05:00April 14th, 2020|Categories: Special Education|Tags: EdD, education degrees, PhD|
It can take a village to help you understand the special learning needs of your child - but not every professional has the same degree or qualifications. Get to know the alphabet soup of advanced degrees in education and psychology, Read more...
By Alessa|2020-04-14T13:59:54-05:00April 14th, 2020|Categories: Special Education|Tags: memory|
When we talk about Working Memory, we refer to the brain's "whiteboard" - that part of the brain where all kinds of tiny bits of information go for short-term storage. It is in the Working Memory area where the Read more...
By Alessa|2020-04-14T13:56:43-05:00April 14th, 2020|Categories: Special Education|Tags: attention, executive function, organizational skills|
Students with Executive Functioning Disorder (EFD) have great difficulty self-regulating their behavior and staying organized. A student with EFD may have problems with: Planning and writing a research paper Handing in homework, even when they did it Recalling math Read more...
By Alessa|2020-04-20T14:58:05-05:00April 14th, 2020|Categories: Special Education|Tags: processing speed, reading, reading rate|
Processing Speed is the time it takes a person to see or hear something - understand what it is - and respond to that information. To understand processing speed a little better, let's take a look at reading, as Read more...
By Alessa|2020-04-14T13:39:29-05:00April 14th, 2020|Categories: Special Education|Tags: diagnosing, executive function|
Executive Functioning (EF) is a series of thinking tasks that help a person stay organized, such as: Planning Evaluating Choices and Ideas Self-Correcting Strategizing Paying Attention Remembering Details Managing Time Managing Space Asking for Help Read more...
By Alessa|2020-04-14T13:31:48-05:00April 14th, 2020|Categories: Starting|Tags: homeschool philosophy|
I'm going to start by saying this: No perfect homeschool curriculum exists. Sure, you can buy a lot of great material. You can even find some pretty awesome material for free. But, what works wonders for one family may Read more...
By Alessa|2020-04-14T13:23:22-05:00April 14th, 2020|Categories: Gifted Education|Tags: differentiation, Williams Model, Williams Taxonomy|
Most folks have heard of Dr. Benjamin Bloom's Taxonomy. Created in the 1950s. It's a hierarchy of thinking skills that guides the development of curriculum. You may have even heard it referred to as "higher order thinking skills" because Read more...
By Alessa|2020-04-14T13:19:47-05:00April 14th, 2020|Categories: Gifted Education|Tags: differentiation, Williams Model|
Oftentimes teachers and parents recognize that gifted students need to learn something different from what's in the regular curriculum, but they're at a loss for what to do. When the child is gifted in math, science, or music, the Read more...
By Alessa|2020-04-14T13:10:56-05:00April 14th, 2020|Categories: Starting, Teaching|Tags: classical, curriculum, homeschool philosophy, unschooling|
Defining Your Homeschool Philosophy Families choose to homeschool for a variety of different reasons. Some parents want to give their children a greater academic challenge. Others wish to provide a more religious backbone to their children's education. Read more...
By Alessa|2020-04-14T12:18:44-05:00April 14th, 2020|Categories: Special Education|Tags: cognitive ability, IQ, traumatic brain injury|
IQ is generally measured through an individually or group administered test of intelligence. Throughout the 20th century, a variety of different IQ tests have been developed, each defining intelligence slightly differently. Critics of IQ tests claim that the tests Read more...
