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The greatest discovery of my generation (about 1900) is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. William James ‘Sow a thought, reap an action. Sow an action, reap a habit. Sow a habit, reap a character. Sow a character, reap a destiny.’ Attitudes-Based Learning (or ABL, for short) is [...]
Hailed as the best pre-schools in the world by Newsweek magazine in 1991, the Reggio Emilia approach to early childhood education has attracted the worldwide attention of educators, researchers and just about anyone interested in early childhood education best practices. Even the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)’s revised version of developmentally [...]
Different children have different ways of learning and every one of them has different personality traits, own set of preferences, personal choices and tastes. Parents and teachers must recognize these basic facts and value their children’s differences. Through proper observation and study, even you can learn what type of learner your child really is. Once [...]
“Intelligence is the ability to solve problems, or to create products, that are valued within one or more cultural settings.“- Howard Gardner Frames of Mind, 1993. What type of intelligence do you expect from your child? How do you like him or her to develop his or her intellect and talent? Is it one of [...]
Have you ever wondered why Tiger Wood is so good in golf and others not? You might say because Tiger Wood has ‘talent’. With Dr. Howard Gardner’s theory of Multiple Intelligences (MI), he will tell us that this is in fact ‘intelligence’! Hailed by educators throughout the world, Dr. Howard Gardner, professor of education at [...]