Education Week in Review: May 19-25

School is out!! The last two weeks have been wild and the last few days have been chaos! I am glad for the break and ready to get back to blogging at Families.com. Summer should allow for many more discussions. Sunday, May 20 Update on My Weekend I recently attended field day with my nieces at a school in Nashville. The day was very enjoyable. It was nice to see things from a school visitor’s perspective and spend time with my family. Monday, May 21 Perks of Public Education: N = Nurses Nurses have not always been a part of … Continue reading

Concerns of Public Education: M = Management

For those of you keeping up with my concerns of public education series, I had a minor cliché in the alphabet. I mistakenly published N = New Teachers before M = Management. Therefore, today I will backtrack to M. Teachers must learn to manage many things. First, teachers manage their classrooms in terms of the children. A teacher has to be able to oversee a group of students. They have to be able to seat the students and group the students in the best working combinations. Teachers must be able to identify teams of students that cannot work together and … Continue reading