When you work in a school, you are bound to hear something like the following at least once a week, if not more frequently: “Can we give him more positive reinforcement?” “Maybe she just needs more positive reinforcement!” “I’ve been giving plenty of positive reinforcement!” Which is all…
Category: School Psychology
Shifting My Sharing
Despite the periodic blog posts heralding the death of RSS, I remain a huge fan of the syndication format (not familiar with RSS? Check the wiki). I have been an avid user of Google Reader for nearly five years now, and I use it daily to aggregate and read, at…
Assistive Technology: What Every Educator Needs to Know
Full disclosure: The author of this reference guide sent me an unsolicited complimentary copy in 2010. There was never any discussion of me mentioning it on my blog, nor did I receive any compensation for the following post. Assistive technology (AT) can be a daunting topic for some educators to…
Incidental Learning
I spent the better part of my day today observing lessons in a variety of fourth and sixth grade classrooms. While I always enjoy getting into the classrooms (and participating, when I’m allowed!), it’s always a welcome bonus when I learn something new while doing it, either about one of…
Online Learning: My Pre-Test
I recently took an online professional development course offered by the Massachussetts School Psychologists Association entitled Ethics 102: The Ethical Practitioner. It provided me with ten hours of NASP-approved PD, plus helped me satisfy my National Certification in School Psychology requirement of three hours of ethics training per three-year renewal…