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In This Issue
What's New at AES
"What's in your (kid's) backpack?"
"Keeping
control in the classroom-is Ron Clark's method for you?
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Product Spotlight:
Language Learning Software
Coming Next Issue
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Parents, take a look at our feature on "What's
in your kid's backpack?" You'll be surprised to
learn how much of a burden this necessary baggage really
is and learn about some state-of-the-art improvements.
Behavior problems are one of the top teacher issues.
Learn how Ron Clark addressed those issues in his inner
city class and proved the system wrong. Maybe you can use
some of Ron Clark's
"Excellent 11".
Our Product Spotlight this month is on
Language Learning Software. Find out how
painless and personalized interactive software can make
your foreign language learning. It's like having your own
tutor speaking right to you!
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All
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For Parents:
What's in your (kid's)
backpack?
Backpacks are heavier than ever
and younger kids are toting them for longer
times. Lugging heavy backpacks can lead to
pain, poor posture and muscle strain. Here are
some tips on relieving the backpack burden, as
well as some ways to use backpacks to keep your
kids safe and well-equipped.
Some FACTS:
- One study of students ages
9 to 20 found that 6 out of 10 reported
chronic back pain related to heavy backpacks.
- A report by the U.S.
Consumer Product Safety Commission found that
more than 7,000 emergency room visits in 2001
were related to backpack injuries, including
foot and ankle sprains from tripping over
backpacks, fractures from packs falling on
hands and strained shoulder and back muscles
from lifting and lugging heavy backpacks.
- Nearly half of those
injuries occurred in children ages 5 to 14.
Some TIPS:
- Make sure your child wears
their backpack on their back, not slung over
one shoulder, dangling from an arm or draped
around the neck.
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Select a backpack with well-padded shoulder
straps and adjust the straps so the pack fits
snugly against your child's back.
The bottom of the pack should
rest in the curve of the lower back and should
not sit more than 4 inches below the
waistline.
Helpful Innovations:
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Zip Lists: These are one of those
inventions you wished you had thought of!
As the site says, "These durable, waterproof
2.5"W x 4"H checklist cards attach to the
outside of a school bag or backpack (key ring
and clip included). Listed on the front are
everyday school supplies kids need -- and your
student can use the spaces provided on the
back to add any special items he or she has to
remember! Attach to the outside of the
backpack, check the list, and go -- never
forget a school item again!" Check them
out
here!
- GPS tracking devices: GPS
tracking for children uses a lightweight
tracking device that can attach to a backpack
or clip onto pants. Some GPS tracking devices
for children are worn like watches or even
attached to the shoes. The GPS tracking for
children allows parents to easily find a child
who gets lost or wanders away. It can also be
used to help locate a child that is
abducted. For more about GPC tracking, please
read:
GPS Tracking For Children: What You Need To
Know
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For
Educators:
Keeping Control in the Classroom: Is Ron Clark's
Method for You?
First there was
Ron Clark's Essential 55. Now there is Ron Clark's
Essential 11.
Who is Ron Clark? Ron Clark is simply a teacher. A
teacher who has produced extraordinary success
stories from classrooms of kids doomed to failure or
worse.
After a five-year teaching career in rural North
Carolina
where his low-income class was invited to the White
House for its unprecedented academic achievements,
Clark moved to a school in Harlem, N.Y., and was
named Disney's American Teacher of the Year. "The
Essential 55," Clark's book about the principals of
education, was a New York Times Best Seller. Clark
was portrayed by Matthew Perry in a television
movie.
Saying his students earned "unprecedented academic
achievements", is an understatement. He used some
simple, common sense philosophies and combined them
with a relentless passion to ignite and feed the
basic and intellectual needs of his students and
the results were nothing short of miraculous. The
television movie was moving and motivational, but
his personal lectures are fire-starters for
teachers.
What does this have to do with keeping control in
the classroom? See the movie or read more about Ron
Clark and you will see how his philosophies helped
him turn a classroom full of the worst behavior
problems in the school into a classroom of academic
super-achievers. It might not work for everyone in
every case, but every teacher can find inspiration,
hope and even some tactics in Ron's methods.
Ron says, "If you walk into your classroom and don't
see a future teacher or astronaut, it will never
happen," "As teachers, we have to dream bigger than
these kids. We have to lift them up."
The 11 fundamental qualities Ron says teachers and
parents can use to motivate, inspire and educate
children are the underlying principles of teaching:
enthusiasm, adventure, creativity, reflection,
balance, compassion, confidence, humor, common
sense, appreciation and resilience.
But his #1 fundamental is RESPECT. "My discipline
is old fashioned -- I don't play," Clark said to a
group of educators in Texas. "My kids aren't even
allowed to speak during the first week of school.
They have to earn that."
On the other hand, he said students deserve the same
respect from their teachers.
"Kids are looking at us to learn what they are,"
Clark said. "When you throw words like 'stupid' and
'ignorant' around, that's what they believe."
Clark told the audience that the classroom family
should also extend to custodians, cafeteria workers
and parents.
"If you really want to make an impact, visit their
home," Clark said. "I guarantee you it will change
everything.
Read more about
Ron
Clark or learn more about
Ron's school, the
Ron
Clark Academy.
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Product Spotlight:
Language Learning Software
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It's never too late or too early to learn a foreign
language.
Language
Learning Software makes language learning easy
with self-paced instruction that immerses the learner in
the sounds and culture of the language. Personalized
instruction and speaking teachers provide an environment
where the learner can concentrate on, repeat and
reinforce weak areas. For the beginning language learner,
the serious learner or the traveler, learning a language
at home is like having your own personal foreign language
tutor.
JumpStart
Languages starts early language learning in
children as young as 3 to 6. Kids meet Buddy and learn to
speak in native tongues, discover foods and culture from
around the world, take video voyages, attend a costume
party adn hear their favorite fairy tales in foreign
languages. JumpStart Languages introduces French,
Japanese, Spanish and English language learning with
simple, age-appropriate instruction disguised as fun and
games that your child will delight in playing.
The
Speak More
language learning series uses a 4-pronged approach to help
anyone ages 10 and over learn a foreign language quickly
and easily:
- Recognize It: See and hear the foreign words
and phrases as you flip your way through the cards until
you automatically recall their meaning.
- Know It: Reinforce your learning by typing
in the English meaning. In no time at all you will know
all of the words on the list.
- Produce It: Now it's time to produce the
foreign words on your own. See the English and say the
foreign word until the definition comes to you
instantly.
- Own It: Confirm that you own the language by
typing in the words and phrases.
In no time, the Speak More language learning software
can help you learn Arabic, Chinese, English, French,
German, Italian, Japanese or Spanish.
What's the hardest part about learning a foreign
language? The pace, availability of repetition and
accessibility to the spoken language. Language learning
software solves all these problems with your very own
personal tutor who never tires of repeating!
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Coming Next Issue (Spring)
-
Shower of Savings coupon
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"Discover the 7 'Must Know' Keys to Homeschooling
Success"
- "The
Jason Project Takes Math & Science Education Out of the
Classroom"
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Product Spotlight: Learn to Type software
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