Nurturing potential is a critical aspect of development for young children with and without disabilities, especially if a child is gifted. This article provides resources that offer ideas for family members and professionals on how to recognize and support each child's strengths. Many of the materials specifically address nurturing potential in…

Games can be modified by teachers or children to suit individual developmental needs. (PBS)

Rudolph Laban's theories of movement can be adapted to various skill development activities for elementary school children. (LH)

Balance-deprived children are offered physical challenges to counteract skill deficits. (JS)

This document contains a collection of instructional strategies to help elementary school children: (1) develop an accurate concept of who they are; (2) practice skills for interacting with others; and (3) experience a sense of personal agency in formulating goals, making decisions, and shaping the course of their lives. The goal of the activities…

Students learn more when they are up, moving, and actively participating. The article discusses what teachers can do to incorporate movement into the classroom every day and describes several exercises from "Brain Gym." A sidebar illustrates the connections between muscular activity, the neural network, and the brain. (SM)

Describes a technique which teachers can use to help students adjust to the problems of growing from childhood to adulthood. The technique consists of a three-stage process of bibliotherapy: identification, catharsis, and insight. (Author/DB)

Social development is an important and integral part of reading readiness; the reading teacher must be aware of the social skills needed for productive growth in reading and the techniques involved in developing them. (HOD)

This compendium, a deliverable for "Assessments for Social, Emotional, and Academic Learning with Preschool/Elementary-School Children," focuses on tools to assess the social and emotional learning (SEL) of preschool and elementary school students (i.e., five- to ten-year-olds), along with aspects of the contexts in which they learn and…

Examines how young children learn and develop and some generalizations about teaching them in order to relate these factors toward planning music experiences. (Author/RK)

Argues that there is a developmental relationship between children's performances in reading and writing tasks and describes two diagnostic tasks that teachers can use to assess young children's developing concepts of words in reading and in writing, without interfering with the natural processes of learning to read and write. (HTH)

A curriculum designed to incorporate sex education into the regular curriculum through a human growth and development approach is described in a six-level outline focusing on social identity, physiological identity, and health and hygiene. (CL)

Uses several anecdotal accounts to illustrate principles of linguistic and cognitive development, and then applies these principles to classroom strategies for teaching reading. (DD)

Guidelines are offered to help make recess a more enjoyable and beneficial experience for all children. Physical educators may have to supervise inservice programs for other school personnel in this area. (JMF)