Critical Thinking is Underrated
Standardized tests… End of the Year Assessments… Grades… Being able to perform well on standardized tests or making good grades in school doesn’t ensure that your student or child knows…
Category: for educators
It Tastes Like Chicken!
If you’ve seen my blog before, you’ll have noticed that I LOVE finding social skill nuance references in commercials and on TV. I know it’s been a few months, but…
Babies are the World’s Best Scientists and Their Experiments are called PLAY
Tonight I stumbled on an amazing and informative documentary on Netflix called, The Beginning of Life. If you work with babies, young children or have children of your own, stop what…
Executive Functions: Help your students develop and strenghten their own inner voice
If you’ve visited my blog before, you know I love using commercials to help get a conversation going with students about a topic. So, when I saw this Nike commercial…
Who? What? When? Where? Why?
The ability to appropriately answer abstract questions is an important developmental language skill. In order to accurately answer these questions, children must understand what each question word is asking. See…
When it comes to social skills, CONTEXT matters!
When it comes to social skills, CONTEXT is very important. You can say one thing in one place or situation and it will mean one thing, but if you say…
My Friends Can Tell What I’m Thinking
“My friends know me so well. They can tell what I’m thinking just by looking in my eyes.” -Jennifer Aniston Jennifer Aniston’s friends must have good social awareness! They are…
Why Work on Social Skills?
The internationally known psychologist Dr. Daniel Goleman published the books Emotional Intelligence: Why it Can Matter More than IQ and Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships around a decade ago. He…
