Posted by Chip on July 14, 2009
Nine is not always an easy age, but it is an age of growing social awareness, of intellectual stretching, wondering, and clamoring These are the “ing,” kids, the “dangling participles” easily misunderstood, the kids who are doing, encouraging, questioning, doubting, arguing…sometimes seemingly just for the sake of it, with no clear antecedents for their [...]
Categories: Developmental Needs, Positive Attributes |
Tags: Billy Collins, children's positive attributes, children's strengths, developmental changes, Developmental Needs, fourth grade, nine-year-olds, Positive Attributes, Yardsticks | 
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Posted by Chip on January 30, 2009
Blog readers, you may have noticed (or can refer to) my exchange with fourth grade teacher Leslie Leff, writing from a charter school in Philly about the pros and cons of keeping fourth grade classrooms self-contained. I thought parents of eight-, nine-, and ten-year-olds and fourth grade teachers everywhere might like to hear more on this. [...]
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Posted by Chip on February 26, 2008
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 fourth grade students. As always, please feel free to leave your comments, impressions, and [...]
Categories: Developmental Education, Developmental Needs, Developmentally Appropriate Curriculum, Positive Attributes |
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