EDS200H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Puberty, Creativity, Personal Fable
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Chapter 9: middle and late childhood cognitive development. Logical and mental thinking is more flexible, less centrated and less egocentric. Teach children: take constructivist approach, facilitate rather than direct learning, consider child"s knowledge and level of thinking, use ongoing assessment, promote student"s intellectual health, turn classroom into setting of exploration and discovery. Critical thinking: thinking reflectively and productively, evaluate evidence, develop deep understanding. Identifying casual relations and experimenting: favour original hypothesis. Creative thinking: thinking in novel and unusual ways, produce unique solutions. Convergent thinking intelligence reflected on conventional tests; produce one correct answer. Divergent thinking creativity; produce many answers for one question. Strategies to increase creative thinking: encourage brainstorming, provide stimulating environments, don"t be over controlling, encourage internal motivation, build child"s confidence, guide child to be persistent, delay gratification, encourage taking intellectual risks. Children gain new skills in school: alphabetic principle- the letters of the alphabet represent sounds of the language, categorize vocabulary.
