One day when my youngest child was in Kindergarten, I sat down with her to do math. I was having her do a page in her Singapore workbook, but her attention was all over the place. She wanted to stop and draw a hat on the duck, only cross them…
Engagement is often confused with entertainment. They are not the same thing. 1. Interesting or fun? Entertainment has fun as its focus. We all like fun, right? Learning often happens when we are having fun. Engagement is different though. Engagement is focused on presenting the subject matter in a way…
I love learning. I pretty much always have. My 18 years of formal education didn’t drive it out of me either. I remember one of my college professors telling me that I was one of the most intrinsically motivated students she had had. I think it is just innate in…
