Attention deficit disorder is always a hot topic among educators. The science behind what is appropriate in helping students with this label is constantly changing. Updates to medications, diagnosis, heredity seem to change everyday including the re...More

Rather than IQ testing, I think we need to address other types of testing in the classroom. I am always concerned about the appropriateness of testing students, especially the youngest students. I don't believe putting the youngest students through...More

[Randie Bricker]

I believe that nature and nurture play a role in a person's abilities, but I think nature plays a bigger role. I think one of the biggest inequities we see in schools has to do with students who don't come to school with as much "n...More

Skinner's views on reward and punishment always leaving me thinking about classroom motivators. Most of the teachers in my school use some sort of class motivator in which the entire class earns a reward for appropriate behavior. I am the standout w...More