Posted by Chip on October 13, 2009
I want to recommend an eye- and heart-opening visit to an amazing teacher’s classroom.You can visit Toshiro Kanamori’s fourth grade class in a primary school in Kanazawa, Japan, northwest of Tokyo, by watching a DVD called “Children-Full-of-Life.”
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Posted by Chip on September 9, 2009
The room was still as the diverse group of ten- and eleven-year-olds waited for the President to come on stage. They seemed interested in the goings-on in the energetic high school audience and applauded when the President appeared, right along with the high school students.
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Posted by Chip on December 4, 2008
Though Thanksgiving is a week past and even those delicious leftover sandwiches are now a fading memory, I wanted to share a wonderful Thanksgiving story as part of our continuing “developmental book swap.”
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Posted by Chip on July 18, 2008
Lest there be any mistake about the fact that the children are watching carefully, our soon-to-be-four-year-old granddaughter told us the story the other night at the dinner table about a boxing poster she had seen in Boston of two women fighters, their bodies covered with blood, wondering how they “got so hurted when they were [...]
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Posted by Chip on November 15, 2007
If you are an African American educator or teaching in a predominately African American school, it would be great for you to post a comment to this blog!
A number of researchers and scholars have helped students of child development understand that African American children face a more complex array of developmental tasks as they grow [...]
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Posted by Chip on November 12, 2007
If you are teaching in a two-way immersion Spanish-English school setting, it would be great to hear your input on this piece.
Work by Iliana Reyes and her colleagues at the University of Arizona on Mexican-American children’s development is extremely instructive. Their research looks at how children learn languages, something that anyone who teaches children from [...]
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Posted by Chip on November 8, 2007
How children see the world and how they think and act at school is affected by their developmental differences, but also by the family cultures and values they bring to the classroom. A combination of a more diversified teacher population and a deeper valuing of all children’s home cultures by all teachers would go a [...]
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Posted by Chip on September 6, 2007
Several themes reoccur in child development theory and literature. These are important to keep in mind when thinking about how children navigate their school world at different ages.
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