While homeschooling is a simple alternative to traditional schooling, it can be intimidating to either transition from schools, to actually start your child with homeschooling (even before considering public school). In fact, some parents may feel backed into a corner with no other options, while others look forward to homeschooling. 

Regardless, if you’re considering homeschooling your children, then steer clear of these 7 common mistakes made in this type of schooling, so that you can really invest in them.

Managing classroom conflict is something that teachers have to practice on a daily basis and even the best teachers struggle to keep a bustling classroom under control at times. Kids are often especially volatile after a long summer – and this year they’ll be facing tumultuous changes to the classroom that will further disrupt order.

Challenging behaviour training and other resources are invaluable elements of any teacher’s ongoing training, but for now here are some strategies to help you manage challenging behaviour in the classroom.

Phantom pain was once thought to be purely psychological, but new research has debunked this myth and is getting closer to the truth of this elusive condition…

Being a kid with autism is hard. Autistic kids have real struggles. Most of the time, they are bombarded with both verbal and body language messages that they are less than their “normal” counterparts. People around them tell them how lazy, bad, or unmotivated they are. 

When they see their peers achieving their goals and they cannot even if they do their best, it might negatively affect their self-esteem. As a parent, there are lots of amazing ways that you can use to nurture self-esteem in kids with autism. The ideas that we are going to discuss are not only simple but also powerful. Let’s get started!

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In this course we deepen participants understanding of systemic racism and the spectrum of privilege. It challenges the participants to examine their behaviours and take close looks at some of the views they have held since a very young age, e.g. this area is a “bad” area, because it has a high proportion of black/brown people living in it, or that young black men in tracksuits are “thugs”. We think about where these messages come from and how people are indoctrinated by the media.

Why Inclusion? We’ll tell you in our new online course, explaining the importance of inclusion and why we believe in it, available on Teachable for a small price

Last session in series: Inclusion of Autistic children in mainstream schools – run by Colin and Elliot Newton and featuring Derek Wilson via Zoom webinar was well received.

Colin and Elliot Newton hosted a webinar on the impact of trauma for children returning from lockdown and featured Jo Mitchell from Orange Psychology on whole school strategies.