Posted by Chip on October 29, 2011
My book Yardsticks: Children in the Classroom, Ages 4–14 is addressed to parents and teachers. In the next few weeks this blog will highlight a few of the developmental patterns typically observed at each grade level. These are treated in much greater detail in the book.
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Posted by Chip on October 29, 2011
Earlier this week I wrote a little about the normal developmental characteristics of children in Kindergarten as discussed in my book Yardsticks: Children in the Classroom Ages 4–14. In this post I’ll describe some of the characteristics of younger, on-age, and older first grade students.
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Posted by Chip on October 28, 2011
Last week I started a series of posts talking about the normal developmental characteristics of children as discussed in my book Yardsticks: Children in the Classroom Ages 4–14. In this post I’ll describe some of the characteristics of younger, on-age, and older second grade students.
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Posted by Chip on October 27, 2011
I recently started a series of posts talking about the normal developmental characteristics of children as discussed in my book Yardsticks: Children in the Classroom Ages 4–14. In this post I’ll describe some of the characteristics of younger, on-age, and older third grade students.
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Posted by Chip on April 22, 2010
Assertion is one of the five key CARES skills underlying Responsive Classroom practice that help build positive proactive attributes in children both socially and academically. The other four are cooperation, responsibility, empathy, and self-control.
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