Little is known about the connection between arts-integrated education and social-emotional learning, particularly for students with disabilities. This paper draws on data from a case study of a federally-funded arts integration program called Everyday Arts for Special Education (EASE) to identify the mechanisms by which arts-integrated teaching…

"107 Awesome Elementary Teaching Ideas You Can Implement Tomorrow" contains a wide variety of effective, user-friendly strategies, tips, and activities for your elementary school classroom. Rich with anecdotes and examples, this resource features useful suggestions for creating a positive, cooperative classroom culture, improving…

Children have a natural proclivity to teach, help, cooperate, and empathize with others, and these interactions can have positive benefits for children's emotional, social, and cognitive development. This article is about ways music teachers can design peer-assisted music learning activities that will benefit everyone in the class and ultimately…

Around the world, dedicated professionals are implementing innovative programs to improve access to quality education for children living in poverty and otherwise marginalized communities. This article provides an overview of the work being conducted by BRAC, an international development organization based in Bangladesh that is working to…

We would describe teaching literacy through braille as one of the most rewarding and challenging aspects of the role of a Qualified Teacher for the Visually Impaired (QTVI). This article focuses on teaching literacy through braille in mainstream settings whilst promoting inclusion and meeting the social-emotional needs of children who use braille.…

Background: Emotional and behavioural disorders in early childhood are related to poorer academic attainment and school engagement, and difficulties already evident at the point of starting school can affect a child's later social and academic development. Successful transfer from pre-school settings to primary education is helped by communication…

This article describes a social and emotional learning intervention, the "Responsive Classroom"[R] (RC) approach, which is designed to produce classroom environments conducive to learning. It summarizes a new body of research describing the efficacy of the RC approach. One component of the RC approach is the Morning Meeting. This article…

Offers teachers a list of experience-based suggestions in meeting the needs of students who are having emotional problems. (RB)

Interviews Carol Wilson, a teacher of gifted students at Sandpiper Elementary School in Sunrise, Florida. Explains that in Carol's classroom, technology extends the instruction of literacy to include not only reading, writing, speaking, and listening, but also what might be called emotional literacy. Notes that she involves her students in a…

The document is designed to provide teachers with ideas, materials, and resources for positive emotional development in elementary level students. It is noted that although many of the activities are geared to emotionally disturbed children, they are applicable to any classroom. Inventories of students' attitudes and experiences are included. A…

Examples of basic affective learning objectives and some examples of teaching procedures for assisting young learners in internalizing these objectives are listed. (JH)

Teachers should encourage children to write in order to help them understand their feelings of anger, hurt, guilt, and so on.

The article discusses Developmental Therapy--an approach to working with emotionally disturbed and autistic young children that is based upon developmental constructs--and presents the results of several studies testing its effectiveness. (Author/DLS)

A range of metaphors composed by gifted elementary children are presented and discussed in terms of what they indicate about their personal worlds, special talents, and emotional insights. The approach to creative writing described in the article also has the potential to assist with the identification of linguistic talent. (Contains references.)…

The article suggests ways teachers can minimize the possibility of hurting students and contribute to their emotional development. (JS)