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7 steps to make your child an emotional expert

Managing emotions is not an easy matter, especially if emotions, thoughts and actions go their separate ways. If, in addition, as adults, we do not know how to handle or recognize our own emotions that drive us every day, it will be more difficult to educate our children in emotional intelligence and teach them to… continue reading

How to Ask Effective Questions in the Classroom

It is important that the teacher is concerned with asking questions in the classroom to develop the critical thinking of their students. And for this it is recommended, first of all, that they be divergent questions, but what are divergent questions? Well, they are those that admit many possible answers, which favors the participation of… continue reading

Hours of play are worth more than notebooks full of sheets

It is impressive how today’s children are “punished” by taking away hours of play to do homework. Even the parents themselves do not feel comfortable letting their children play all the time, since they are aware that they have pending tasks and prefer, in most cases, to see them with their notebook and attentive to… continue reading

Schools need more recess time to play

You pick up the children from school and ask them what part of the day they liked the most, and almost certainly many of the children who hear that question will say that it was recess. But that answer should not surprise us, because we should still be able to remember what that wonderful feeling… continue reading

How to work fine and gross motor skills with traditional games

Stimulating the fine and gross motor skills of children as they grow (and up to approximately 6 years) is very important for their physical and mental development also in the future. Gross motor skills include a series of skills capable of moving the body’s muscles, developing strength, speed, or other aspects such as maintaining balance,… continue reading

Studying to learn is not the same as studying to pass

The evaluation systems that are concerned, in the first place, with demonstrating that the student passed, need to have metrics such as numbers to be able to verify it. However, when it comes to realizing whether the student truly learned the lesson, the teacher must focus on three elements that have nothing to do with… continue reading

How to improve the quality of parenting learning

Of the many aspects of parenting, one of the most important is making sure your children get a good education, but it is not always easy to know which things are most important to achieve this. That is why we want to delve into some of the possible measures that can be taken to improve… continue reading

Teacher's Guide to Preventing Childhood Obesity

One of the main concerns of pediatric health is the increase in childhood obesity. The percentage of obese children has tripled in many countries over the past century and is a cause for alarm in countries such as the United States or even Spain, so eradicating this problem is a real challenge that must be… continue reading

7 educational Netflix content that you should not miss

We all love a good Netflix binge on the weekends, and… what better way to do that than snuggling up to a good show or movie at home? Today’s television offers us many possibilities, even if what you are looking for is content as specific as those related to education. Current television services and platforms… continue reading

The educational value of learning in the schoolyard

Nature is a powerful teacher and there are many things that children can learn hands-on in the schoolyard that they cannot learn sitting in a classroom. That is why in this article we have set out to demonstrate how outdoor facilities can improve learning, from those most related to science curricula to those related to… continue reading