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At Education Elephant, we think it is important to keep you up to date with the latest teaching tips, news, announcements, case studies, and stories from across the education sector. Read on to find the latest posts of interest, and please feel free to share any posts that you find useful with colleagues and friends. We’d love to hear from you so please comment below any of the posts.
RACE: What You Didn’t Know About the Spelling & Grammar Waiver – Hindrance or Help?
Is the Spelling and Grammar Waiver Used in Irish State Exams Unfair? Results from a study, led by Dr. Kate James from Éirim: The National Assessment Agency (www.eirim.ie) (James & Hannah, 2017), suggest that students that receive a spelling and grammar waiver...
Setting limits as a parent
By Gillian Martin Ever found yourself trying to regain control by yelling things like “If you don’t stop fighting over it, I’ll throw that Nintendo Switch out the car window”? Stop for a moment - that’s just not true, is it? You probably rely on that Switch for a bit...
Don’t help with maths homework if you don’t like maths.
Parents who are not comfortable with maths do more harm than good when they help their children with their maths homework, according to research by Erin Maloney and her colleagues. They found that when parents are anxious about maths, their children learn...
Education Elephant Ltd to provide all testing and training requests for Woodcock-Johnson® (WJ IV) in UK & Ireland.
“Responding to growing interest in the UK, Riverside Insights, the publishers of the world-renowned comprehensive cognitive, achievement, and oral language assessment, The Woodcock-Johnson® IV (WJ IV), has partnered with Dublin-based Education Elephant Ltd. to address...
Free booklet on supporting your child’s wellbeing during Covid19
Supporting Your Child's Wellbeing during the COvid19 Pandemic. The booklet below is a collection of useful tips, advice and resources to help you support your child's wellbeing and health during the Covid19 pandemic. Click to download the free booklet
Online Course: Getting Started with Tele Assessment – a how to guide for Psychologists
All you need to know about setting up, testing and reporting using remote assessment. This short course is a great introduction to any psychologist considering starting tele assessment. During the course you will learn: -Can it be done? -How can it be done (including...
KID’S JOURNAL DURING LOCKDOWN
We hope you are all keeping well and safe during this time. As most kid’s are off school for the easter break, here is a really fun journaling opportunity for them. Thanks to Long Creations!
How can we up-skill during this time at home?
We have come up with some nice skills that could be great to learn while most of us are working from home, minding the kids or self isolating. We are some of the lucky ones, the only ask: to stay a home. A big shout out to our front line workers, from Doctors, Nurses,...
Home Activity Wall – Activities for Kid’s at home!
Welcome! We will be sharing some kids related activities, recipes and other fun things over the coming weeks to help with home schooling and keeping busy! This is our Home Activity Wall! It's designed to be printed out and kids can get some inspiration for fun things...
Online Course Platform Launching April 2020
We are delighted to announce that we are launching the brand new Education Elephant Online Training platform on the 10th April 2020. Join our online community and up your skills by enrolling our courses: How To Set Up Lego® Based Therapy Groups In Your...