Are you the parent of a child with autism or a physical disability, that receives special education services? Does your child need transportation services? Do you think that special education personnel are not being truthful about what the federal special education law (IDEA 2004) says about transportation? This article will […]
Applications of Positive Psychology
This research study identifies the principles, history and theories of positive psychology. It also analyzes current research on positive psychology. Finally, it shows how these concepts can be used in practice, even in organizations. Researching the history of positive psychology, Dr Martin Seligman is the happiness professor and the unofficial […]
Learn a Foreign Language in 48 Hours
The Clock Starts Ticking Starting tomorrow morning, you’re going to practice English, Spanish, French or other foreign language. For the following 6 days, for 8 hours per day, you’ll work on grammar, pronunciation, watch videos and listen to audio materials. You’ll write short notes, grocery lists and play games in […]
Speaking Multiple Languages Impacts Child Development
Researchers at University of California Berkeley and Bard College have recently taken a deeper look at how language impacts psychological development in children. In the July issue of Perspectives on Psychological Science, Stephen Chen and Qing Zhou from Berkeley and Morgan Kennedy from Bard draw on psychology and linguistics to […]
A Jungian Psychology Approach To Anxiety
Anxiety is a very common disorder in today’s world, largely due to the fact that we feel hurried, pressured and pushed to perform, pay the mortgage, deal with kids, and on top of all that, live a full life. No wonder we have anxiety. But what is anxiety trying to […]
The Origins of Psychology – Psyche and Logos
From two Greek words: psyche, which means the mind or the soul and logos, which means study, the science of Psychology has been studied and defined by many people throughout the ages. Hilgard, Morgan, Silverman, and Schlesinger are just a few. A careful analysis of their foregoing definitions of psychology […]
The Results of Home Schooling vs Public Schools
One of the very first questions that most parents ask about home schooling is whether it actually works. They are only too well aware of the fact that the public schools have problems, but really wonder whether they can do any better. One natural response for some parents is to […]
Marking of Test Instruments – Creating Comparability Between Classes
In my first year as head of Mathematics, a couple of my older staff members felt that some of the less experience Mathematics teachers were marking assessment items “easy”, giving their students better marks than they should receive. This raised issues for students competing for university places particularly in the […]
I Love My Kids, But I Never Got Around To Saving For Their College – Now They Are In High School
I always thought about starting a college fund. I even set up a small savings account when they were born. Now they are in high school, time is running out and I am starting to panic. What can I do? Where should I start? Are they going to hate me? […]
Dear Class of 2020 – An Open Letter to Graduates
Dear Class of 2020: I’ve seen the Facebook challenge to post our senior pictures in support of you, but honestly don’t see how that will comfort you. To me, it seems the exact opposite. It feels like we’re putting it in your face that we got to have this experience, […]