Conversations I recently had led me to a dive into the ‘gifted child’ literature. Are there ways how to make a student a gifted child, i.e. raise a child’s IQ? Conversely, are there things parents should avoid because they lower their children’s IQ? I learned some surprising things. Before we start, ‘gifted’ can mean different […]
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People, even small ones, form their own ideas about things based on language, things they observe, etc. While some of these ideas can provide good anchors for new information, others can hinder learning. Study after study has found that materials that take learners’ ideas into account lead to better learning than, e.g., traditional textbooks1. These
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Despite having gone through teacher training and even working in teacher education for many years, I didn’t know much about Montessori until I became a mom. In teacher training we had learned some basics but nothing that really went into details or was easy to apply. A new (2023) study found1, however, that the answer
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Remember Tracy Gillett from last week’s post? She has a lot of interesting stuff on her blog, but she also hosts an annual online summit. The 2023 summit on “The art and science of natural parenting”, had a long lineup of speakers. It ran for five days at the end of September 1. I only
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