5 May 2014

This Is What Happens When A Kid Leaves Traditional Education

Logan Laplante is a 13 year-old boy who was taken out of the education system to be home schooled instead. Not only was he home schooled, but Logan had the ability to tailor his education to his interests and also his style of learning, something traditional education does not offer. As Logan has mentioned, when he grows up he wants to be happy and healthy. At a TEDx talk in 2013, he discussed how hacking his education is helping him achieve that goal.

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School & Experts Put Genius Boy In Special Ed. Now He’s Free & On Track For Nobel Prize

A young genius whose IQ is said said to be higher than Albert Einstein, is on his way to possibly winning a Nobel Prize after dropping out of elementary school and his special ed programs. From a young age, Jacob Barnett was very interested in Math and Physics. Numbers were his passion and he was getting bored of early grades of elementary school as they did not come close to challenging him. Finally, his parents made the decision to take him out of public school and special ed programs regardless of the fact doctors had diagnosed him with ASD.

“For a parent, it’s terrifying to fly against the advice of the professionals. But I knew in my heart that if Jake stayed in special ed, he would slip away.” Jacob’s mother.

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27 Apr 2014

38 Effective Strategies for Classroom Management

How to Motivate Your Students and Get Them to Listen to You

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This article gives 38 effective strategies for classroom management. These

strategies may not be what you are used to and may require changes on your

part. While there is no perfect method for eliminating all challenging

behaviors, these are the strategies that I endorse and believe in as being the

most effective for creating a positive classroom climate, based on my own

experiences and research. Some of these strategies are more practical for

elementary age classrooms, but many of these strategies can be used for all

students from preschool to high school.

If you cannot get a student to follow rules, complete work, or be kind to

other students after you have consistently implemented the strategies in this

article, talk to your school team (administrators, guidance counselor, etc.) to

determine what else can be done to help this student. The school team may

need to meet with the child’s parents and additional strategies may need to

be put in place like an individualized behavior plan and/or support from

professionals like the guidance counselor, school psychologist, or principal.

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15 Apr 2014

Differentiation

How do you differentiate your teaching?

Gifted and talented learners need and enjoy variety and challenge. This requires that lessons be variously differentiated by:

outcome (learning objective)
task
process (the method of teaching)
pupil grouping
tailoring the content of the lesson for the individual (personalised learning agenda)
provision (access to specialists)
choice and self-direction
learning style.

These enrichment activities may be delivered by the school, by experts or be extra curricular. It is important however, to make them worthwhile and to include content and experiences that sufficiently stretch learners.

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