The Teacher's Key: Finding the Answers for Learning

Children may not always remember what was taught, but they remember how they feel. We can help students feel safe and loved through our teaching process.  

Adding our senses during an experience will add lasting memories. I love the smell of cut grass. That smell always takes me back to when I was a little girl coming into our small town as we were driving home from camp. Those memories are etched in my mind and triggered through the smell of cut grass. When we add taste, smell, touch, sounds, and smells to a lesson it deepens the learning paths in o...

Children learn best when they experience something. We can easily set up experiences in order to deepen and lengthen learning for our students.

The next few lessons are from the Daycation break out session in case you missed it. I found these verses and this truth out of a desire for finding the answers to learning. I don’t know why, but I am so amazed that God’s Word teaches us everything we need to know about teaching! I have not found all the answers yet, but I keep discovering hidden gems throughout His Word. God’s Word is packed full...

Another life changing therapy that we found in our search for answers was FIE. FIE helps to develop cognitive functions needed for learning. I like to say it is learning how to learn. These are strategies we need to input, process, and express information. You can find information about it on the website NILD.org.