Last month President Obama was interviewed on the Today Show. The state of American education was one topic addressed. What drew my attention was his view on the American school calendar and the length of our school day. Our President raised some unpopular views. Allow me the liberty to paraphrase and illustrate his message. After [...]
It’s a boy! It’s a girl! No sooner is that first sentence uttered when parents become aware of another very important “question:” Is my child gifted! What could be more important than having a “gifted” child? Is there something more important or at least as important? “Giftedness” has many different meanings based on various individual [...]
The school telephone has been very busy these last two weeks as we fielded two different types of phone calls. One was the predictable call from parents checking on their child’s adjustment to the preschool setting, the other (also predictable) parents of recent graduates, now in Kindergarten. The last few weeks I’ve shared some of [...]
There is a dangerous line that we often cross while raising our children. We succumb to the ideology that academically gifted is synonymous with intelligent. An academically gifted child performs in a previously prescribed manner. An intelligent child thinks about alternative outcomes; they reflect on the facts and extrapolate an answer. For some [...]
Grace L. Geller holds a Bachelor of Arts degree, a Masters Degree in Early Childhood Education from Queens College, and an Advanced Level Director’s Credential. Ms. Geller has been a validator for NAEYC and A.I.S.F. as well as a DCF trainer for Nova Southeastern University. She has authored articles on childcare, parenting and curriculum featured in: “Our City Weston”, “City Magazine”, “Today’s Parent”, and “Broward Family”.
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