The following is a continuation of the end-of-summer account I wrote a long time ago… Enjoy this last little bit of summer fun… together. Over the years Adventureland aged along with those who challenged it. The gorilla leaned to one side, and a cage was added that kept it from toppling over and squashing some…
Labor Day
Exercising the Art of Persuasion in Your Teaching
Start Your School Year Off Right
Adventureland
Persuasion is Foundational to Teaching
Success Starts with the Basics
Back to School
Gardening in August
Family Devotions
Teach Your Children Hospitality
Waste Not, Want Not Continued…
Thunderstorms
Should You be Worried About Your Child's Reading?
Ways to Eat a Watermelon
Choosing the Best Curriculum
Waste Not, Want Not
Staycation Ideas
Newsletter
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Exercising the Art of Persuasion in Your Teaching
Persuasion is an art that, when mastered, will empower your students to connect with what you are teaching in ways you may never have dreamed possible. Aristotle, the master of this art, said that persuasion involves ethos, pathos, and logos. Ethos is the credibility of the speaker, pathos is the emotional element, and last but…
Persuasion is Foundational to Teaching
In my 50-plus years of teaching and consulting, I’ve learned that the art of persuasion and teaching are not mutually exclusive. Instead, persuasion is foundational to teaching. Whether I have a classroom of students or just one student, if I have not somehow used the art of persuasion, I have not succeeded. Aristotle made it…
Adventureland
The following is an end-of-summer account I wrote a long time ago… but I still like it. I hope you will as well and that it will kindle an idea and that you’ll enjoy that last little bit of summer fun… together. Adventureland A couple weeks ago something special happened. I enjoyed the past and…
Family Devotions
Being assigned the topic of family devotions is like having a stake driven through my heart. It’s a reminder that I’m a loser dad when it comes to family devotions. Oh, we’ve done them, but it’s always been a sore spot for me. How I wish I was one of those dads who began them…
Success Starts with the Basics
Yesterday I went to see my 7-year-old grandson display the basic horsemanship skills he had learned during a week of horse camp. I took my seat in the bleachers with my daughter and her two daughters, and we listened as the announcer gave commands and the campers obeyed: stopping their horses, turning them, riding sidesaddle,…
Back to School
For the record… I hate back to school days. As soon as I see the first art box display at Wal-Mart I get a pit in my stomach and have the urge to scream and bolt out of the store. It doesn’t help when they start showing up in center aisles right after the Fourth…
The Truth about Dyslexia Assessments
The following is an interview with Liz. I’m worried about my child’s reading, could they have dyslexia? The fact that you’re worried tells me, that despite your best efforts, your child struggles to read. They may be unable to read or can read a bit, but not fluently. Their spelling is erratic – spelling the…
Should You be Worried About Your Child’s Reading?
Reading ability is different for each child but, by age 8, they should mostly be reading on their own. It doesn’t matter if you’ve used phonics, flashcards or something else to teach your child to read. If they are not able to read by 8, it may be due to an underlying problem called dyslexia. How…
