Posts belonging to Category Parent Questions & Concerns
Posted by Chip on November 29, 2011
Principals in New York State are standing up and speaking out for teachers and students everywhere, and it’s time for the rest of us to add our voices. Read this article from the New York Times about the open letter written by Dr. Sean Feeney and Dr. Carol Burris, both principals in New York State. [...]
Categories: Education Reform, Parent Questions & Concerns, Teachers & Teaching |
Tags: Carol Burris, principal evaluations, Sean Feeney, teacher evaluations, Valerie Strauss | 
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Posted by Chip on October 29, 2011
My book Yardsticks: Children in the Classroom, Ages 4–14 is addressed to parents and teachers. In the next few weeks this blog will highlight a few of the developmental patterns typically observed at each grade level. These are treated in much greater detail in the book. JOIN THE CONVERSATION! Ask Chip a question or share [...]
Categories: Children's Positive Attributes, Parent Questions & Concerns, Thinking Developmentally |
Tags: 5-year-olds, children’s positive attributes, developmental teaching, five-year-olds, kindergarten, kindergartners, social-emotional development | 3 Comments »
Posted by Chip on October 29, 2011
Earlier this week I wrote a little about the normal developmental characteristics of children in Kindergarten as discussed in my book Yardsticks: Children in the Classroom Ages 4–14. In this post I’ll describe some of the characteristics of younger, on-age, and older first grade students. JOIN THE CONVERSATION! Ask Chip a question or share your [...]
Categories: Children's Positive Attributes, Parent Questions & Concerns, Thinking Developmentally |
Tags: 6-year-olds, children’s positive attributes, developmental teaching, first grade, first graders, six-year-olds, social-emotional development, Yardsticks | 8 Comments »
Posted by Chip on October 28, 2011
Last week I started a series of posts talking about the normal developmental characteristics of children as discussed in my book Yardsticks: Children in the Classroom Ages 4–14. In this post I’ll describe some of the characteristics of younger, on-age, and older second grade students. JOIN THE CONVERSATION! Ask Chip a question or share your [...]
Categories: Children's Positive Attributes, Parent Questions & Concerns, Thinking Developmentally |
Tags: 7-year-olds, children’s positive attributes, developmental teaching, second grade, second graders, seven-year-olds, social-emotional development | 2 Comments »
Posted by Chip on October 27, 2011
I recently started a series of posts talking about the normal developmental characteristics of children as discussed in my book Yardsticks: Children in the Classroom Ages 4–14. In this post I’ll describe some of the characteristics of younger, on-age, and older third grade students. JOIN THE CONVERSATION! Ask Chip a question or share your own [...]
Categories: Children's Positive Attributes, Parent Questions & Concerns, Thinking Developmentally |
Tags: 8-year-olds, children’s positive attributes, developmental teaching, eight-year-olds, social-emotional development, third grade, third graders | Post a Comment »
Posted by Chip on October 25, 2011
I recently started a series of posts talking about the normal developmental characteristics of children as discussed in my book, Yardsticks: Children in the Classroom Ages 4–14. In this post I’ll describe some of the characteristics of younger, on-age, and older fifth grade students. JOIN THE CONVERSATION! Ask Chip a question or share your own thoughts! [...]
Categories: Children's Positive Attributes, Parent Questions & Concerns, Thinking Developmentally |
Tags: 10-year-olds, children's positive attributes, fifth grade, fifth graders, Parent Questions & Concerns, social-emotional development, ten-year-olds | 3 Comments »
Posted by Chip on October 24, 2011
I recently started a series of posts talking about the normal developmental characteristics of children as discussed in my book Yardsticks: Children in the Classroom Ages 4–14. In this post I’ll describe some of the characteristics of younger, on-age, and older sixth grade students. JOIN THE CONVERSATION! Ask Chip a question or share your own [...]
Categories: Children's Positive Attributes, Parent Questions & Concerns, Thinking Developmentally |
Tags: 11-year-olds, children's positive attributes, developmental teaching, eleven-year-olds, Parent Questions & Concerns, sixth grade, sixth graders, social-emotional development, Thinking Developmentally | 7 Comments »
Posted by Chip on September 21, 2011
Checking out traffic on the blog site, I’ve noticed a particularly large number of visits on pages dealing with positive attributes and age characteristics for fourth and fifth graders and am wondering what’s up? JOIN THE CONVERSATION! Ask Chip a question or share your own thoughts! —If you’re reading this entry on the blog site, [...]
Categories: Parent Questions & Concerns, Teachers & Teaching |
Tags: fifth graders, fourth graders, homework anxiety | Post a Comment »
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