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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 [...]
Piaget is possibly the one of the greatest proponents of child learning and cognitive development. In fact, child psychologists around the world recommend using this theory as a foundation for teaching cognitive techniques to children below the age of two years. Once your child reaches the age of two years, he or she will have [...]
Children have a special way of developing their thinking process. The development of thinking process in children makes a fascinating study. Nature always provides a way with which small children including infants react to the presence of objects around them. For example, children possess a certain amount of skills in relation to their thinking ability. [...]
Teaching your children with metacognition principles and techniques will help and encourage them to go deeper into what they learn and imbibe in the course of their learning process. In fact, metacognition learning is all about learning challenges when your children will attempt to fine tune what they learn and absorb in their classroom and [...]
Metacognition is a key parameter in the transfer of learning parameters. Accelerated development of meta-cognitive skills is very important to children. On the other hand, Meta learning is a process of acquiring a number of skills required to enhance one’s personality. Metacognitive strategies can help children of all ages to develop highly critical cognitive functions. [...]
We have to differentiate between information and ability to think. In this day and age, we have an information overload. However, does that mean that a person who is very knowledgeable can think well? Our education gives us information but does not really teach us how to use and apply them. Our ability to think [...]