"Q & A: Teaching Kids To Take Healthy Risks" NPR 5/10/10
Good report on balancing the benefits and dangers of taking risks, an evolutionary reason why teens might be less careful about that balance, and how adults can demonstrate how they find a middle path.
Monday, May 10, 2010
Thursday, May 6, 2010
WORLD OF LEARNING: MESSY BACKPACK SYNDROME
"Executive Function Disorder: rarely tested, rarely addressed, yet with devasting consequences" Robin Hansen/SF Examiner 5/6/10
I've been thinking about EF recently. In a conversation with a parent, we both felt that this was a problem often labeled too easily as ADHD. My sister and I have been talking about parents who've been asking us about helping with organizational skills. And one of my Goodreads friends recently recommended That Crumpled Paper Was Due Last Week by Ana Homayoun, a book that deals with the EF issue, as does Joyce Cooper-Kahn and Laurie Dietzel's Late, Lost and Unprepared: A Parents' Guide to Helping Children with Executive Functioning. Ms. Homayoun is local: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/01/education/01boys.html.
I've been thinking about EF recently. In a conversation with a parent, we both felt that this was a problem often labeled too easily as ADHD. My sister and I have been talking about parents who've been asking us about helping with organizational skills. And one of my Goodreads friends recently recommended That Crumpled Paper Was Due Last Week by Ana Homayoun, a book that deals with the EF issue, as does Joyce Cooper-Kahn and Laurie Dietzel's Late, Lost and Unprepared: A Parents' Guide to Helping Children with Executive Functioning. Ms. Homayoun is local: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/01/education/01boys.html.
WORLD OF LEARNING: INNATE KINDNESS
"The Moral Life of Babies" New York Times 5/3/10
While working with children over the last decade plus, I've always felt that most have an innate sense of fairness and empathy. Kids love to help, so much so that I am often pressed for ways in which they can do so. Paul Bloom, his wife and their team of researchers at the Infant Cognition Center at Yale are making the case that infants come equipped with a sense of what is good for others as well as themselves. The video accompanying the article is wonderful.
While working with children over the last decade plus, I've always felt that most have an innate sense of fairness and empathy. Kids love to help, so much so that I am often pressed for ways in which they can do so. Paul Bloom, his wife and their team of researchers at the Infant Cognition Center at Yale are making the case that infants come equipped with a sense of what is good for others as well as themselves. The video accompanying the article is wonderful.
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
WORLD OF LEARNING: "RESEARCH SHOWS..."?
"Second-class Science: Education research gets an F." Newsweek 4/29/10
Ever since I started working with kids, I've been skeptical of the words, "Research shows....." Sharon Begley's article tells me that skepticism is well-founded.
Ever since I started working with kids, I've been skeptical of the words, "Research shows....." Sharon Begley's article tells me that skepticism is well-founded.
Monday, May 3, 2010
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
WORLD OF LEARNING: AUDITORY PROCESSING
"Little-Known Disorder Can Take a Toll on Learning" The New York Times/Well Blog 4-26-10
This article, featuring Rosie O'Donnell and her son, helps to make the issues behind auditory processing disorder (APD) a little clearer.
This article, featuring Rosie O'Donnell and her son, helps to make the issues behind auditory processing disorder (APD) a little clearer.
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