Newsflash - “Students are Bored”
Posted in Just Starting Out, Teaching on December 21, 2016
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When the High School Survey of Student Engagement (HSSSE) surveyed over 81,000 students in 2006, it reported that 2 out of 3 students are bored in class every day (in fact, 17 percent reported they are bored in every class).[1] … Duh! So, students are clearly not engaged, nor motivated. And why are they not Read More »
ODD... or Just WEIRD?
Posted in Homeschooling on December 2, 2016
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Oppositional defiant disorder is a pattern of disobedient, hostile, and defiant behavior toward authority figures.[1] Who would have guessed? Twenty percent of our school children are ODD. Well, more precisely, some studies indicate that 20% of school-age children have Oppositional Defiant Disorder. What does this mean? In an average classroom, four to six children are Read More »