SMS Home Page. New Ideas And Solutions For Classroom Management. Inside Classroom Management: Ideas and Solutions Classroom management is a persistent challenge for many teachers. This new story collection explores best practices and new developments that can help keep you on track. Read the in-depth interview with Harry and Rosemary Wong; learn how social-emotional programs impact behavior; discover how instructional coaches can help dissect classroom-management challenges; and much more. Read it today, on Education Week Teacher. FEATURED IN THIS ONLINE STORY PACKAGE: Harry and Rosemary Wong: Following Up on First Days With a new book on the horizon, Harry and Rosemary Wong continue to drive home the point that detailed planning and procedures are essential to effective classroom management—and teaching. Social-Emotional Programs Target Students' Long-Term Behavior Teachers using social-emotional learning to manage student behavior say they are encouraging more than just compliance—they're working to build more responsible and empathetic people.
The Neurobiology of Learning Disabilities | Learning Disorders. Written by Sheldon H. Horowitz, EdD The specific learning disabilities (LD) category, dating back to its origin in the early 1960s, was built on the assumption that central nervous system dysfunction was the underlying cause of why these individuals struggled to achieve at levels commensurate with their peers. More than three decades of testing and classifying, teaching and implementing programs of related services and support has left us with a definition of LD that includes: at least average intellectual capacitya significant (and unexplained) discrepancy between achievement and expected potentialthe exclusion of mental retardation, emotional disturbance, sensory impairment, cultural differences or lack of opportunity to learncentral nervous system dysfunction as the basis of the presenting problem(s) We know that learning disabilities are a heterogeneous group of disorders that have a negative impact on learning.
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