DEVELOPING MINDS REFLECTION 1
Astghik Zakevosyan
11/13/14
EPC 314
Developing Minds Reflection
Developing Minds is a video that is designed to help parents and teachers of elementary and middle-school children explore differences in learning through the approach and conceptual framework of developmental- behavioral pediatrician, author, and professor Dr. Me1 Levine. This video includes children and early adolescents with diverse learning profiles, is divided into theme and construct videos. The video focus on children's struggles and successes with skills such as reading, writing, and mathematics as well as difficulties in communication, understanding, organization, feelings, and behavior. The videos focus on illuminating breakdowns in such key areas of brain function as attention, memory, language, neuromotor, social cognition, temporal-sequential ordering, spatial ordering, and higher order cognition. Dr. Levine guides viewers through the videos as he and other experts, teachers, parents, and children provide commentary and strategies. The last video we watched in class was about higher order cognition. Together, the videos and promote an understanding of learning differences-strengths and weaknesses-and strategies that help children become successful learners. This material also gives parents and teachers a common language to advance effective communication between home and school. The first is concept formation. This is the creation of an idea. The video focuses on the importance of primary education. In the second grade the focus is on math concepts. It is important for children to grasp number sense. This is a key step in understanding other math concepts and it must be mastered in the second grade. Concrete concepts are also introduced in the video. This is something that appeals to the sense. Visualization strategies would be one of these. Abstract concepts are the most difficult to be mastered. To help master abstract concepts, analogies work best. Giving students examples and then
11/13/14
EPC 314
Developing Minds Reflection
Developing Minds is a video that is designed to help parents and teachers of elementary and middle-school children explore differences in learning through the approach and conceptual framework of developmental- behavioral pediatrician, author, and professor Dr. Me1 Levine. This video includes children and early adolescents with diverse learning profiles, is divided into theme and construct videos. The video focus on children's struggles and successes with skills such as reading, writing, and mathematics as well as difficulties in communication, understanding, organization, feelings, and behavior. The videos focus on illuminating breakdowns in such key areas of brain function as attention, memory, language, neuromotor, social cognition, temporal-sequential ordering, spatial ordering, and higher order cognition. Dr. Levine guides viewers through the videos as he and other experts, teachers, parents, and children provide commentary and strategies. The last video we watched in class was about higher order cognition. Together, the videos and promote an understanding of learning differences-strengths and weaknesses-and strategies that help children become successful learners. This material also gives parents and teachers a common language to advance effective communication between home and school. The first is concept formation. This is the creation of an idea. The video focuses on the importance of primary education. In the second grade the focus is on math concepts. It is important for children to grasp number sense. This is a key step in understanding other math concepts and it must be mastered in the second grade. Concrete concepts are also introduced in the video. This is something that appeals to the sense. Visualization strategies would be one of these. Abstract concepts are the most difficult to be mastered. To help master abstract concepts, analogies work best. Giving students examples and then