Sir Ken Robinson calls for a revolution in education...

Aug 2, 2012 by

Sir Ken Robinson calls for a revolution in education

This article, taken from a Costco Connections magazine was sent to me by a friend and avid reader.  I think she was more amazed at where she found it.  For those of you who don’t know Costco is a warehouse shopping club in the mid-west.  The fact that education  was covered by a shopping magazine points out that everyone is talking about the problems in education.  Granted part of the purpose of this article was to promote Sir Ken Robinson’s newest book, The Element:  How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything, however he makes many statements about education that make so much sense I could help but pass them on.  His ideas are nothing radical. Please take the time to read the whole article I think you’ll be impressed. You can read the whole article at Teach...

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?Core Curriculum and the SLP?

Jun 23, 2012 by

?Core Curriculum and the SLP?

I am so confused, I almost don’t know where to begin. I never thought of myself as a therapist who followed or worked from the curriculum. I have always thought of myself as someone who supports development of the underlying skills needed to access the curriculum independently. Working with 3-8 grades at a time it would be nearly impossible to know the exact curriculum in each grade. Not to mention seeing kids only 1-2 times a week it is hard to keep up, even with curriculum vocabulary. Often our small groups are designed to work on a specific skill and are made up of students of different ages or in different classes. Occasionally I’ve incorporated long term projects such as books or concepts especially if I knew my students were struggling. Going into the...

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