Situational awareness, or knowing what’s happening in your environment at all times and how it can potentially affect you, is important. The term situational awareness is generally used in the context of healthcare, aviation, and the military where quick decision-making is required. These decisions could have grave repercussions and mean the difference between life and … Read more
Developing social and emotional skills is critical for children of all age groups. These skills help them develop socially, emotionally, and academically and become strong individuals who are better at dealing with life’s challenges. Therefore, some schools incorporate Social Emotional Learning (SEL) in their curriculum to foster these skills in students within the school environment. … Read more
Please Note: This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure (link) for more info. Self-discovery is a rewarding venture, yet, not many of us want to reflect on our behaviors, attitudes, and values. While the blame still lies with us, living a fast-paced life implies missing out on a range of emotions and thoughts that just … Read more
When was the last time you felt so curious about a topic that you spent hours on it? You read various articles, watched a lot of videos, and almost forgot where or when the time passed. Active learning aims to foster this exciting and almost insatiable need to learn. It involves the student or the … Read more
How do you know a cat is not a mouse, or a ball is not a tomato? Scientifically speaking, through sensory acquisition or visual perception of different objects. Visual discrimination[1] is an aspect of visual perception that helps us classify, organize and differentiate different shapes, sizes, and colors of various objects. Within visual discrimination, there … Read more
Take a moment to look away from the screen and notice the various things, people, sounds, smells, and sensations around you. If you noticed something new, that you were not previously aware of, chances are you were not situationally aware before. Being situationally aware would mean that you constantly know what is going on in … Read more
The reason you are able to see these letters, separate one word from another, and understand the complete sentence is because of your ability of visual perception. Visual perception takes place when the eyes and the nervous system, most importantly the brain, come together to perceive, process, and interpret what one is seeing. As studies … Read more
“It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.” – By Audre Lorde This inability, that civil rights activist Audre Lorde is talking about, has even affected our education systems. Maybe that’s the reason why for as long as we can remember, we could see discrimination … Read more
Abstract thinking is both a cognitive component and a cognitive skill. In the human intellect, abstract thinking is a higher-order cognitive skill predictor of academic achievement and professional success. In recent times where the world is highly data-driven, the insights drawn are still a reflection of the underlying abstract thinking. This underrated mental ability is … Read more
Please Note: This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure (link) for more info. Reading is an important component in a child’s development. It leads to the furnishing of vocabulary, and sight words and builds imagination skills. While reading is crucial, it is also significant to consider the type of reading for students. Guided reading is … Read more