The hand movement is a visual cue meant to help the 13 English learners in the class of 19 students grasp the meaning of the complex word. Gomez learned the trick from Olga Dietz, who co-teaches with ...

eSpark looked at the skills rated most important for being a kindergarten teacher, citing data from the Occupational Information Network (O*NET), the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Workable, and other ...

How can parents really prepare their kids for kindergarten? Take advice from a teacher who says parents need to do one important thing: “Tell your kid no.” “‘No’ is not a bad word,” Emily Perkins, a ...

Wednesday marked the last day of the 2021-22 school year in Lafayette Parish. There is one teacher who can't settle into the excitement of summer because she is already looking forward to August. The ...

Linda Orwick wanted to be an educator of young children for as long as she can remember. Now Orwick, a kindergarten teacher at Kenwood Elementary School in the Springfield City School District, is in ...

The UFLI reading curriculum is already used in McLean County school districts, including District 87 and Heyworth.

As far as teaching careers go, the idea of being a kindergarten teacher seems very appealing. The students are young, not yet subject to the social pressures of middle and high school, and eager to ...

A survey of Springfield kindergarten teachers and their principals showed 94% wanted access to technology in their classroom — and the most popular option was the touchscreen Chromebook. Of the 84 ...

When Laurel Bates introduced a “tattle phone” to her kindergarten class, she did it during their morning meeting — the part ...