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Please Help Me With My Homework - Spanish Translation

I’ve had my book, “Please Help Me With My Homework: Strategies for Parents and Caregivers” translated into Spanish. I was advised to have it translated into Castilian Spanish so that it would be universal. So, that’s the dialect the book is presently in. I am not Spanish speaking. I had the book translated because of the need for Spanish speaking parents to have a resource to support their students. I do a lot of work with schools that have a significant bi-lingual population and believe this book may help some familes. [...]

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The Power of Songs for Memorization

Using singing and music to help students remember material can be one of the most powerful tools in your teaching toolkit for reinforcing memorization and [...]

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Small Groups – Good for All Ages!

The techniques and strategies we use in grade school classes can be put to use anywhere learning takes place, including higher education and on-the-job [...]

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Seven Surefire Ways to Relate Classroom Material to the Student's World

One of the best ways to engage and motivate students is to apply learning to real-world situations or to associate the learning with something that students can identify with. The examples that follow have been used successfully in classrooms around the country and can be adapted for your subject and [...]

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Hit Tunes from Real Teachers

Jeanne from Kirtland, NM teaches Quadratic Equation Through Song

During the week of August 10th I was pleased to work with two great groups of teachers.  During the first great session in Kirtland New Mexico, one of the high school math teachers agreed to demonstrate how she uses music by singing the quadratic formula to the [...]

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Mnemonics for remembering test strategies from Schnecksville!

I recently presented a workshop in Schnecksville, PA. The participants’ challenge was to create a song to help students memorize test taking strategies. They all did such a wonderful job with their rhymes, songs and mnemonics that I wanted to share them with all of you. The memorization & test [...]

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Good Ol' Fashioned Flash Card Strategy & Resources

I’m testing for my next level in Kung Fu in a couple months and one of the requirements is to memorize quite a bit of information from the Kung Fu Members Handbook. Memorization has never been easy for me. I think that’s why I have so many strategies in my seminars to help students memorize [...]

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