A lower elementary classroom is the perfect setting for numerous teaching aids. Young learners explore through sight, sound and touch. There are many wonderful teaching aids available today, and The Christian Classroom reviewed some of them so you could spend your time with your students. When you feel like your teaching has lost its zip, try a new teaching aid and rediscover your students' enthusiasm.
Unique Logic & Technology
Peter Freer, CEO of Unique Logic & Technology in Asheville, N.C., says it is important to realize that there is help for children and adults with attention problems.
"It was because of my own frustrations in trying to help such children that I developed the Play Attention system," he says. "I started researching some of the latest attention-training technologies in use by NASA and the Air Force. I looked at the neural feedback systems being used by some psychologists. What I saw looked promising, but none of it seemed to offer a practical solution for educators 9in the classroom. That is why I developed Play Attention. It is an easy-to-use system that utilizes Edufeedback, the combination of advanced feedback technologies with concrete educational objectives and tested teaching methods.
"This fun video game format boosts real life and educational success by teaching focus, visual tracking, time on task, short term memory sequencing and discriminatory processing. Today, hundreds of teachers, education specialists and psychologists have witnessed the benefits of Play Attention training can bring to students with attention problems.
"I like what Dr. Robert McGratten, a principal in Asheville says, ‘I have seen Play Attention improve grades, home life and change a student's self-image from victim to responsible learner. Play Attention puts students in control of themselves.'"