Parenting Blog Posts

Throughout my teaching career– homeschooling, classroom teaching, and being an administrator– I’ve often been faced with questions about learning styles. Many books have been written about it, because it's tough to teach a classroom of very different kids. The idea is that each person learns best in a particular way–by hearing, seeing, touching, or with movement–and that teachers should adjust the way they teach to the different styles of their students. Customized teaching!

I’ve recently struggled to keep my class of fifth graders from saying whatever pops into their heads at any moment during the day. I’ve pondered the reasons why students these days seem to have such poor impulse control, and why they don’t seem to have a sense of respect for authority. In a recent conversation with my 80-something parents, they told me they could not recall any student ever speaking out of turn in class when they were in elementary school, and as I remembered