Intellectual Development depends on the opportunity given to a child from an early age. It is important to understand that all children learn in different stages. A task one child may be able to do; another may struggle at, due to the individual’s strengths and abilities.…
“The Downside of Being a Child Prodigy” is an article written by Andrea Sachs published in Time Magazine on September 6, 2006. The article starts with a reference to a short story about Alissa Quart who had skills since she was a child. She was able to read and teach her peers at elementary school how to read. She got awards for her writings. One of her good skills is that she was able to edit her father’s writing by the age of 13. Then the writer refers to Quart’s book entitled “The Dilemma of the Gifted Child”. The book talks about the pressures that a talented child encounters in life. Some parents try to enforce their kids to learn at early stage. Some of the materials that they learn are difficult to learn. This step might put a pressure…
Mary Kurcinka book “Raising Your Spirited Child” Identifies Five temperament traits of a spirited child. A spirted child often have very high intensity. They are physically passionate and highly dramatic. For example, their laughs or cries will appear to be louder than others. Spirited children often have rough challenges in adapting in a new environment. They do not like many changes and often times takes longer for the child to except the changes. Their emotions are very fragile and can become frustrated extremely easily. A spirited child is also persistent, they are committed on getting the things the way they think it should go. For example, they are very picky with food and will not eat if it is not what they want. Another characteristics…
In Carol Dwecks article “Brainology”, she argues that a children’s mindset affect their motivation and academic work through their beliefs in which students are either worried or resilient to challenges. Dweck indicates that students with a fixed mindset are anxious about the amount of intelligence they have and are always threatened by the challenges because they think that their intelligence is fixed and failures affect them badly. In contrast, Dweck talks about growth mindset where intelligence can always be improved through efforts and learning. Dweck says, “They don’t necessarily believe that everyone has the same abilities or that anyone can be smart as Einstein, but they do believe that everyone can improve their abilities”…
America is a country that currently spends more money on public education per student than any other nation in the world; nevertheless, these good intensions have achieved only slight positive outcomes. For instance, in PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment), an authoritative test used to measure the education levels of students from 53 countries, American students ranked 12th in reading, 17th in science, and 26th in math. No doubt, a question like this one has been argued for decades “ what exactly is happening in foreign countries that allows them to out-pass America in terms of academics?” The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way is an illuminating book by Amanda Ripley that answers the question by showing how other countries educate their kids in a much more effective way than we do.…
There are many significant attributes of children’s lives including, physical and intellectual competence. Although children learn at a different pace than one another, once they start to age their physical and intellectual skills increase. No child is considered “smarter” because he or she might be more advance in one area than another child. Every learning skill that children are grasping on a daily basis has room for improvement.…
In “Brainology: Transforming Students’ Motivation to Learn,” by Carol S. Dweck, she explains the two types of mindsets students have. The number of studies Dweck has done shows the results of how children behave emotionally and physically with the two mindsets, which are growth mindsets and fixed mindsets. The mindset that will construct students for their beneficial benefit in the future is the growth mindset.…
Carol S Dweck illustrated about the The Secret to Raising Smart Kids and a way that helps them with their opportunities into becoming successful. Most students would think that the ones who will truly successful will be the brainy students in the classroom. But looks aren’t everything. Education isn’t depended on looks anyone can get a good grade as long there depended on it. Students are confident in the beginning because it is simple and basic concepts.Once they notice the work is too hard or lose interest or even say they don't have time for that they begin to fall back. Students sometimes fall behind because they're scared. They just simply give up. Either say when they are not motivated that's what brings the students down. When a student…
To receive the self-esteem that children need, they must be praised. Kori Ellis, writer of “The Importance of Praising Your Kids”, declares that children should be told how wonderful they are everyday. “Self-esteem expert Jack Canfield of Chicken Soup for the Soul fame often cites a study that says 80 percent of children entering school in the first grade scored high on the self-esteem inventory . . . [and] by the time they graduated high school, that number was down to just 5 percent.” The majority of teachers blamed the parents and vise versa. People need to understand that a line stands between too much praise and not enough.…
1. You are asked to select a reading book for a three year old. Describe the features you would want within the book in order to foster a child’s intellectual ability, such as colour recognition and shape recognition?…
One way to analyze children’s intellectual development is to assess their theory of mind. A theory of mind is a set of ideas that explain another person’s behavior, ideas, beliefs and desires, and it emerges in its most rudimentary form at around two years of age. By asking her questions used in the Smarties Task (which is widely used to test children’s theories of mind) I was able to have a glimpse into her development.…
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By 2 to 3 months they will watch and follow moving faces. They can also discover that their hands and will bring them to their mouth. They have weak neck muscles and a heavy head they will begin to gain control of it and turn with purpose.…
The process of fingers becoming more adept at handling small objects is an example of:…
However it is different for a child who has been labelled as smart, they will get extra help from their teachers and set harder work. This makes them work harder as they are set new challenges and are taught how to pass their exams with high grades. This again is an example of the self fulfilling prophecy with this one being referred to as the halo effect.…