Month: February 2020

Give Children a Foundation for Sports & Life Success
technology in education

Give Children a Foundation for Sports & Life Success

- by Mary Lebowitz

The opportunity for participation in sports participation that is unprecedented and widespread for children leads to unintended consequences: children stop exercising after a bad experience or injury. Unfortunately, both of them can be avoided with adequate preparation. Teenage athletics is unique because most parents feel comfortable sending their children to the playing field without preparation. There is no other young effort where such unpreparedness is acceptable.

Preparing a Strong Foundation of Physical Abilities

Children need a basis for mathematics, a basis for English, a basis for critical thinking, but somehow it is assumed that some of the pushups in Phys Ed are basic enough to have a satisfying sports experience. All children can have valuable time to participate in team and individual sports and avoid injury as well by preparing a strong foundation of physical abilities. This will not only lead to a more active healthy childhood: by avoiding injury …

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Heart of a Champion - Working With Autistic and Disabled Individuals
special education

Heart of a Champion – Working With Autistic and Disabled Individuals

- by Mary Lebowitz

Working with others with physical and intellectual handicaps can be quite a herculean task. Most educational professionals possess some exposure and knowledge of how to be effective using this population, nonetheless, it needs a particular and exceptional educator to effectively and willing to assist them. I’d like to illustrate many of these finer points to hopefully enhance the quality of time spent with whoever has special needs. It will require some kind of special tools; you need a mask, a lightning rod, an hourglass, as well as a jukebox. If you have these four things, you may be an effective and effervescent educator of individuals who require your passion probably the most. All of such the situation is encompassed by a heart, with it you are usually a hero for those who are required one.

However, I need to confess something; I don’t have the heart because of it.

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