Making Kids Cleverer

Making Kids Cleverer
Author :
Publisher : Crown House Publishing Ltd
Total Pages : 299
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781785833854
ISBN-13 : 1785833855
Rating : 4/5 (855 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Making Kids Cleverer by : David Didau

Download or read book Making Kids Cleverer written by David Didau and published by Crown House Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-12-20 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'Making Kids Cleverer: A manifesto for closing the advantage gap', David Didau reignites the nature vs. nurture debate around intelligence and offers research-informed guidance on how teachers can help their students acquire a robust store of knowledge and skills that is both powerful and useful. Foreword by Paul A. Kirschner. Given the choice, who wouldn't want to be cleverer? What teacher wouldn't want this for their students, and what parent wouldn't wish it for their children? When David started researching this book, he thought the answers to the above were obvious. But it turns out that the very idea of measuring and increasing children's intelligence makes many people extremely uncomfortable: If some people were more intelligent, where would that leave those of us who weren't? The question of whether or not we can get cleverer is a crucial one. If you believe that intelligence is hereditary and environmental effects are trivial, you may be sceptical. But environment does matter, and it matters most for children from the most socially disadvantaged backgrounds those who not only have the most to gain, but who are also the ones most likely to gain from our efforts to make all kids cleverer. And one thing we can be fairly sure will raise children's intelligence is sending them to school. In this wide-ranging enquiry into psychology, sociology, philosophy and cognitive science, David argues that with greater access to culturally accumulated information taught explicitly within a knowledge-rich curriculum children are more likely to become cleverer, to think more critically and, subsequently, to live happier, healthier and more secure lives.;Furthermore, by sharing valuable insights into what children truly need to learn during their formative school years, he sets out the numerous practical ways in which policy makers and school leaders can make better choices about organising schools, and how teachers can communicate the knowledge that will make the most difference to young people as effectively and efficiently as possible. David underpins his discussion with an exploration of the evolutionary basis for learning and also untangles the forms of practice teachers should be engaging their students in to ensure that they are acquiring expertise, not just consolidating mistakes and misconceptions.There are so many competing suggestions as to how we should improve education that knowing how to act can seem an impossible challenge. Once you have absorbed the arguments in this book, however, David hopes you will find the simple question that he asks himself whenever he encounters new ideas and initiatives Will this make children cleverer? as useful as he does.;Suitable for teachers, school leaders, policy makers and anyone involved in educations


Making Kids Cleverer Related Books

Making Kids Cleverer
Language: en
Pages: 299
Authors: David Didau
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-12-20 - Publisher: Crown House Publishing Ltd

GET EBOOK

In 'Making Kids Cleverer: A manifesto for closing the advantage gap', David Didau reignites the nature vs. nurture debate around intelligence and offers researc
A Most Clever Girl: How Jane Austen Discovered Her Voice
Language: en
Pages: 32
Authors: Jasmine A. Stirling
Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-03-30 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

GET EBOOK

For fans of I Dissent and She Persisted -- and Jane Austen fans of all ages -- a picture book biography about the beloved and enduring writer and how she found
How to Make Your Child Smart and Intelligent?: A Practical Guidance for Parents
Language: en
Pages: 198
Authors: Dr J. C. Lall
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-07-17 - Publisher:

GET EBOOK

Growing Friendships
Language: en
Pages: 192
Authors: Eileen Kennedy-Moore
Categories: Family & Relationships
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-07-18 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

GET EBOOK

From psychologist and children's friendships expert Eileen Kennedy-Moore and parenting and health writer Christine McLaughlin comes a social development primer
Reston a to Z
Language: en
Pages:
Authors: Watt Hamlett
Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-11 - Publisher: Mascot Books

GET EBOOK

Reston A to Z takes young readers on a tour of America's first modern planned community. Your tour guide is Robert E. "Bob" Squirrel, a delightful character who