Article: Why Preschoolers Are In So Much Trouble
On Facebook, someone posted a video of a mother feeding her infant child. I couldn't help but inwardly judge this mother for strapping a cell phone around her forehead so that the screen, on which what appeared to be a child's movie, was playing. Her goal, I presume, was to capture her infant's attention so that while he was transfixed to the colourful moving images on the screen, she could feed him as efficiently as possible.
What was, in my estimation, so wrong with this picture was that the mother had replaced any possible human interaction between them with a moving picture on a small screen.
I often see small screens (likely parents cell phones) attached to the front bars of strollers, for example. This often replaces the stroller toys that babies can entertain themselves with, develop increased eye hand co ordination by manipulating, and learn about cause and effect as a result of moving and shaking objects.
An over use of technology, I believe, is part of the reason that kindergarten children are becoming increasingly seen as the most difficult group of children to manage at school...
Read more at http://www.helpmesara.com/2017/11/why-preschoolers-are-in-so-much-trouble/
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Podcast: How to best prepare, study and perform well on tests and exams
Sara Dimerman in conversation with Janyce Lastman. Over the course of this episode you will learn more about:
- The difference between a quiz, test and exam and how to prepare differently for each
- How standardized tests (such as EQAO in Ontario) are different from "regular" tests and why they are important
- The amount of time and how often students need to study in order to see a successful outcome
- How students can make the best use of their time and what to do when preparing to study (and how parents can help too)
- How to avoid experiencing test anxiety and why it happens
- Whether cramming pre test or exam is ever a good idea
- How and where (in bed or at a desk, for example) to study for tests and exams
- Whether one can study well with music or other distractions around them
- How lack or disruption of sleep impacts studying effectiveness and how to manage this
- Things to keep in mind for the night before, day of the test or exam and afterwards
- What "accommodations" are, who they are given to and why
Listen at http://www.helpmesara.com/2017/11/prepare-study-perform-well-tests-exams/ |
