Education Minute is a partnership between Newsradio 950, WWJ-AM, and Eastern Michigan University to benefit the community. The program, which offers educational advice to help parents complement and extend the learning their children receive in school, helps WWJ listeners understand how they can incorporate “teachable moments” central to their children’s education — like making writing and reading fun, accessible and relevant.
Education Minute airs daily at 9:22 a.m., 12:23 p.m., 5:40 p.m. and 9:53 p.m. Web resources for parents who want to learn more than what can be gained in a one-minute radio spot are found on these pages.
Daily topics are Math, Mondays; Technology, Tuesdays; Writing and Reading, Wednesdays; Science, Thursdays; and Learning Beyond the Walls, Fridays.
Each week features a different age focus ranging from pre-kindergarten to college.
Parent Benefits
• Improved parenting skills, abilities, education and knowledge.
• Straight answers to their most difficult questions.
• Better understanding how to deal with issues facing their children.
• Strengthened communication and relationships with their children.
• Learning the warning signs and how to minimize dangerous situations before they fully develop.
• Become enlightened about their children’s behavior and social pressures.
• Develop a greater awareness of how their children feel and why they may react the way they do.
• Get up-to-date information about teaching practices, materials and techniques.
• Better connect with their child’s classroom teacher and effectively discuss educational goals and achievements.
Why EMU?
Founded as a normal (teachers) college in 1849, EMU is recognized nationally for excellence in the field of education. One of every four teachers in Michigan and one percent of all educational personnel in the country earn at least one degree from EMU. Eastern Michigan is the pre-eminent university for training teachers in Michigan’s classrooms and the experts on early child development and academic preparation. EMU’s College of Education has been identified by the Michigan Department of Education as the largest, public, “exemplary” program in the state, and it is a charter member of the North Central Association’s Higher Learning Commission and the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education.
The College also houses the largest department of special education in the nation and the only one in Michigan that certifies in each specialty area and provides professional preparation in all areas of disability. As Michigan’s education leader, EMU has deep resources in the areas of mathematics and language arts curriculum, parenting skills, equity issues in education, college access and high school reform, and helps Michigan parents gain valuable insights into their children’s education progress, thoughts, actions and behaviors.
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