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Seven Ways for Young Children to Be Smart
Early childhood professionals have always looked at the whole picture when considering children's intelligence. ...
Source: National Association for the Education of Young Children
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Two Ways of Knowing
Socrates, the founder of the inductive method (Watson, 1978), was a master at analytical reasoning. Plato, his student, ...
Source: Visual Spatial Resource Center
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Developmental Trends: Intelligence at Different Age Levels
Infancy (Birth–2)What You Might Observe: Success on test items that involve early developmental ...
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Measures of Intelligence
Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon, commissioned by the French government to devise a test that would differentiate ...
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IQ and School Achievement
Scores on intelligence tests were originally calculated using a formula that involves division. Hence, they were called ...
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Transition Points
IntroductionAs children progress through different grades in school they face different challenges. In addition to ...
Source: NYU Child Study Center
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Seven Tips to Building Unconditional Love
Do you know how to build a foundation of unconditional love and nurturing within a family? Dr. Rose T. Watson discusses ...
Source: Education.com
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Five Tips to Create Family Cohesiveness
How can parents achieve this family unity and still create independent children? “Dr. Mom” believes in ...
Source: Education.com
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From Baby to Big Kid: 9 Toys for Every Age
If you've ever been stumped as to why your child's ditched his pricey new toy for the box it came in, you're not alone. ...
Source: Education.com
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Intelligence
A final factor affecting learning is intelligence, or the inherent capability of the learner to understand and learn. ...
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Intellectual Development
The theory, research, and philosophy of development in the early childhood years provides a deeper understanding of ...
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Developing Metacognition
Metacognition is thinking about thinking, knowing "what we know" and "what we don't know." Just as ...
Source: Educational Resource Information Center (U.S. Department of Education)
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IQ Testing: What's it All About?
Your child breezes through books normally preferred by kids a few years older. She's a fast learner and the most common...
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Why Are First Graders So Competitive?
Ever notice that first grade is full of kids jumping over each other to be the best, the first, the smartest and the...
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Where Does Intelligence Come From?
Children's intelligence can be influenced at birth by heredity (genes), prenatal toxins (such as a mother consuming...
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Spatial Intelligence
People who are generally considered to have highly developed spatial intelligence include sailors, engineers, surgeons,...
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Help Your Kids Reach Their Potential
Nobody likes a pushy parent. On the other hand, no one has more genuine interest in your child's success than you do....
Source: Education.com
