Teaching students who have lost parents or grandparents to the pandemic

A startling number was released in a new study published in the Oct. 7 issue of the journal Pediatrics: At least 140,000 children in the United States lost a primary or secondary caregiver – either a parent or a grandparent – to COVID-19 between April 1, 2020, and June 30, 2021. And today, a little more than ...

Teaching Executive-Function Skills

How You Can Help Your Students

One student has trouble remembering to bring her homework back to school, even though she’s finished it. Another student constantly bothers his peers while the teacher is speaking, and sometimes has outbursts in class. And a third seemingly has no motivation ...

Media literacy: Teach your students to decipher today’s mixed messages

Everything seems political in our world today, whether the issue is the pandemic (masks and vaccinations), voting rights, immigration, or even which television network a person watches. At the same time, because of the Internet, there is more information – both correct and incorrect – accessible than ever before. How do you ...

How will pandemic ‘learning loss’ affect your classroom this fall?

Depending on where you teach, your recent school year was a combination of pandemic closings, virtual classes, and in-person teaching with masks and social distancing. Physical classrooms had fewer students; in-person attended on different days of the week; teachers had to manage students who had varying levels of available technology ...