Posted by Chip on October 26, 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 fourth grade students. JOIN THE CONVERSATION! Ask Chip a question or share your own [...]
Categories: Children's Positive Attributes, Thinking Developmentally |
Tags: 9-year-olds, children's positive attributes, developmental teaching, fourth grade, fourth graders, nine-year-olds, social-emotional development, Yardsticks | 
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Posted by Chip on September 21, 2011
Checking out traffic on the blog site, I’ve noticed a particularly large number of visits on pages dealing with positive attributes and age characteristics for fourth and fifth graders and am wondering what’s up? JOIN THE CONVERSATION! Ask Chip a question or share your own thoughts! —If you’re reading this entry on the blog site, [...]
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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. [...]
Categories: Schoolwide Issues, Thinking Developmentally |
Tags: fourth grade, fourth graders, self-contained classsrooms | 4 Comments »
Posted by Chip on October 2, 2007
A recent Education Week article reports that the National Institutes of Health has awarded 30 million dollars over the next five years to research centers that will, in part, try to answer the question of why so many students seem to show a “slump” in their learning and achievement at 4th grade. (Education Week, September [...]
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