This issue of the Journal focuses on this encompassing problem in our schools-learning disabilities. The editor explores the importance of knowing your subject, managing self and time, and communicating with parents. Three articles in this issue focus on students with special learning needs. Eric Larson, Timothy Sisemore, and Gil Fremont confront the issue of student learning disorders. Sisemore and Fremont focus on similar subjects but from different perspectives.
Some stress is good, but too much can be devastating.
This short but powerful article is a must reading for pastors and Christian educators. Mark Rasmussen challenges classroom teachers to give each student a lot of praise and personal care. Both take time and effort, but the results, says Rasmussen, are worth the investment. In our classrooms are students with special needs-spiritual, educational, social, and physical. Identifying and addressing these needs are the dual challenges constantly facing Christian school educators.