Bruner Learning Resources

Spending quality time with your kids does not always require much money from your pockets to bring them to movies, malls, or amusement parks. All you need to do is grab a book and read a story to them. Reading aloud to kids gives many tangible benefits to all children of all ages. It provides them opportunities to strengthen their vocabulary and to increase their attention span. Aside from the intangible benefits, don’t count out also the amazement and pleasure in the faces of the kids every time they hear stories. Here are some of the benefits of reading aloud to your kids: PROVIDES ENJOYMENT. Children enjoy listening to stories. They usually find reading aloud or bedtime stories fun and enjoyable. This activity can also serve as a perfect bonding opportunity between parents and children. INCREASES ATTENTION SPAN. Since the unfolding of events in a read aloud is slower, kids tend to pay more attention and concentrate as the story is being read out loud to them. This, ...

Since I have only a few more days left for this school year to be entirely over, I started evaluating this academic year. This process will help me identify my areas for improvements so that next school year would be more rewarding for me. As this was first time teaching in a progressive school, I know that there are some mindsets in my teaching repertoire that I need to change. Upon reflection, I plan to focus more on student learning and understanding because I feel that my lessons are not having that lasting impact on the kids. Hence, I got hold of "Understanding by Design" by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe and read the book cover to cover with the idea of getting the nuggets which I can use to improve on how I design my units. To some designing units with UbD framework is already easy-peasy, but for me, as I don't have much exposure to how it's to be accurately written, needs to learn years after it has become 'hot potato' in education trends.  Better l...

Christmas is just around the corner, and we are all busy adding trimmings to have that Christmas feel in our offices, classrooms, or even homes. I have made this simple Christmas banner. It's so easy to prepare. Just print, cut the edges, and you got your banner ready. If you want the PDF file here . Hope you enjoy the Christmas banner.