Posted by Chip on November 6, 2011
Nine is not always an easy age, but it is an age of growing social awareness, of intellectual stretching, wondering, and clamoring. 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 [...]
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Tags: Billy Collins, children's positive attributes, children's strengths, developmental changes, fourth grade, nine-year-olds, Thinking Developmentally, Yardsticks | 
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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. JOIN THE CONVERSATION! Ask Chip a question or share your [...]
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Tags: 6-year-olds, children’s positive attributes, developmental teaching, first grade, first graders, six-year-olds, social-emotional development, Yardsticks | 8 Comments »
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 [...]
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Posted by Chip on February 23, 2010
In the preface to my book Yardsticks: Children in the Classroom, Ages 4-14, I ask readers to “pay attention to the linits of developmental characteristics and characterizations.” I note that although general expectations about childrens’ behavior have emerged through detailed and repeated observations and have yielded certain patterns of development, “they are not precise predictions [...]
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Posted by Chip on September 26, 2008
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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Posted by Chip on September 5, 2008
Since the first edition of Yardsticks: Children in the Classroom, Ages 4-14, was published thirteen years ago, it has captured the interest of educators in other countries and been translated into Mandarin Chinese and Arabic, and pamphlets based on the book have been translated into Spanish (www.responsiveclassroom.org/bookstore). JOIN THE CONVERSATION! Ask Chip a question or [...]
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Posted by Chip on August 18, 2008
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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Posted by Chip on August 4, 2008
Truth of the matter is, we Americans have too much stuff. Look around at home and school—it’s hard to keep it all organized! There’s never enough storage space, and we’re not very good at giving or throwing away things we might just need some day. But summertime offers a great opportunity for tag sales—a terrific [...]
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