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“This idea of all education springing from and resting upon our relation to Almighty God-we do not merely give a religious education because that would seem to imply the possibility of some other education, a secular education, for example. But we hold that all education is divine, that every good gift of knowledge and insight comes from above, that the Lord the Holy Spirit is the supreme educator of mankind, and that the culmination of all education (which may at the same time be reached by a little child) is that personal knowledge of and intimacy with God in which...

One of the Seven Laws of Teaching is that of reviewing past lessons. The author suggests that up to 30% of a class period can be used for reviewing past lessons and skills. Many teachers have an opening activity which reviews a skill, such as a warm-up math problem on the board, or a quick quiz over previously learned material. However, reviewing does much more than just reinforce the neurological pathway for retrieving previously learned information. When a teacher brings up prior knowledge, she is reinforcing the long-term memory for the particular idea, however, she is also creating the platform...

Students cannot learn if they are stressed, anxious or fearful. How is your first week of school going? What are some ways that you, as the parent, can help your child be emotionally prepared to learn, and to love to learn? First, take the pressure from grades off. Although good grades are important for getting into college and applying for scholarships, the focus in elementary and middle school should not be on academic performance. Instead, the focus of school needs to be on growth for the whole person. Having a growth mindset has been researched recently as one of the...

Trinity Harbor Education Services was launched in February 2016 by Mollie Shaw, B.S. Ed., Texas A&M University. Mollie Shaw has taught in public, private and home school group settings for over 25 years. She specializes in secondary language arts and is an Educational Therapist with the National Institute for Learning Differences (NILD). Key Components of NILD Educational Therapy: The focus of our one-on-one and small-group, individualized interventions is to strengthen the underlying causes of learning difficulties, rather than simply treating the symptoms as tutoring does. NILD educational therapy is a true therapy in that it aims the intervention just above...