Recently I received a pleasant, unexpected email from a retired teacher in New York State who had read a blog entry here and wrote to reminisce with me about work we had shared in the mid-1980s JOIN THE CONVERSATION! Ask Chip a question or share your own thoughts! —If you’re reading this entry on the [...]
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In many schools, this is the time of year for what is typically called “Open House” or “Back to School Night.” JOIN THE CONVERSATION! Ask Chip a question or share your own thoughts! —If you’re reading this entry on the blog site, click “Post a Comment” or the word “Comments” below the entry —If you’re [...]
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Many teacher readers of Yardsticks: Children in the Classroom Ages 4-14 make particular use of the book at this time of year by referencing Appendix A, beginning on page 195 in the third edition. There they find “The Birthday Cluster Exercise,” a practical way to get a rough idea of the developmental range and “cluster [...]
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Anyone—parent or teacher—starting the new school year with tweeners or teenagers should think about immediately ordering a copy of The Advisory Book by Linda Crawford! JOIN THE CONVERSATION! Ask Chip a question or share your own thoughts! —If you’re reading this entry on the blog site, click “Post a Comment” or the word “Comments” below [...]
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When Monday, September 1, 2008, rolls around, your child (whether entering kindergarten or fifth grade) will be a certain age, and every other child in the classroom will be a different age. In fact, the chronological age span in the classroom will range over a year or more, and the children’s level of cognitive, social, [...]
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As spring nudges into all the corners of the New England hill and valley streams, and the fields and playgrounds begin to dry out for planting and play again, the changing of the seasons remind me of how in education we seem to metaphorically pass through our own cyclical understandings of how to approach the [...]
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William Crain, professor of psychology at the City College of New York, graciously contributed the foreword to the 3rd edition of my book Yardsticks: Children in the Classroom, Ages 4-14 (NEFC, 2007). I have long been an admirer of Dr. Crain’s major textbook in child development, Theories of Development which I certainly recommend. Here I’d [...]
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Our children’s emotional, social, physical and cognitive growth has as its ultimate goal mature independence for life. “Mature independence” is acquired in small steps over time, day by day, month by month, year by year. JOIN THE CONVERSATION! Ask Chip a question or share your own thoughts! —If you’re reading this entry on the blog [...]
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