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“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 [...]
1. If my child found a couple of bucks on the classroom floor, he would: a. Dutifully play the part of class officer and turn it in to the teacher, because the thought of making someone go hungry for lack of lunch money would be too painful for him to endure. b. Make sure no [...]
One of the easiest ways to teach and develop critical thinking in your children is to use a series of action-based activities that focus on urging your children’s brain to take positive and productive actions. Teaching critical thinking techniques to your children will eventually result in stimulating their basic thought processes. Here are some basic [...]
Child educators and counselors of the day keep using a number of buzz-words and definitions to explain the basic concepts of critical thinking skills. Some of them use words like creative thinking to drive home the idea, while a number of others employ words like higher-order thinking or logical thinking to explain the topic. Whatever [...]