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STOP: What are higher order thinking skills (HOTS)? Higher Order thinking is also known as critical thinking. It is when children have learnt to be creative, innovative, and evaluative (Byrnes, 2001, Read Write Think, 2018). In order to do this children are learning to: • Analysing (distinguish fact from fiction by gathering information and taking it apart) • Synthesizing (putting information together) and creative generation • Evaluating (judging the outcome) • Solving problems (hypothesing…

Briefly describe 2 developmentally appropriate materials or activities you would add to the environment to address skills for this age group. 1. Infants need a variety of toys that they can manipulate. This includes soft rattles, stuffed animals, and plastic stacking rings. This will promote development in multiple domains, while supporting their growing spatial awareness and attachments. 2. A developmentally appropriate activity to do with 0-1-year old’s, is to sing to them. Music offers…

What is wisdom? A definition of wisdom is the quality of having experience, knowledge, and good judgment; the quality of being wise. Wisdom is the aftereffect of past life experiences, that will help a person and lead them to help others in the future. When a person has obtained insight, humility and dedication then and only then, will a person experience true wisdom. Although wisdom can be acquired, some of the traits are difficult to develop. Some people associate wisdom with age. Just…

an abundance of resources and was sapping the life out of the lower class. This world spoken of was not fiction, but reality for those in the era of the French Revolution, and in this case, Jean Valjean. Although he lived this harsh life described and was in imprisoned for 19 years, it is indisputable that Jean Valjean is a man of grace; in the sense that he forgave Fantine for all the wrong and mistakes she has done, his adoptive…

A concussion is a brain injury caused by a blow to the head or a violent shaking of the head and body. The human brain experiences critical development in our formative (early) years. This is also a time where parents place their children in sports like soccer and football. Based on research I am against having children play sports where concussions are likely to occur. Children's brain of the ages 5-7 is growing and developing, they become more curious about the world around them, become more…

Developing Brain During Adolescence This paper will discuss the developing brain during adolescence. Surprisingly, an adolescent’s brain has ongoing development activity until their 20’s. Throughout this development, the brain, in fact, goes through physical change. The brain consists of several divisions and they each have their own function that all undergo this development process. This structural change occurs naturally but there are potential external influences and experiences that…

Piaget based his theory around cognitive development and states that the needs of the whole child must satisfied. He focuses on studies of mental processes which include how people perceive, think, learn and remember. He focused on the constructive perspective, in which, he sees learning as a construction (Dahl, 1996, P.2). Piaget saw children as little scientists and he stated that an active child requires knowledge through self-evaluation and they use what they have previously learnt to form…

Play therapy gives children the opportunity to explore, and establish play that is interesting and exciting to them. Play therapy helps to build the communication and learning process in children. Play therapy is used strategically to help children face their problems. This therapy is different from the usual play, the therapists use play to help a child address and find a solution to their problems. The theories that guide this studies research on play therapy, are Piaget’s theory of cognitive…

Case Study Carson Jones is a student that I have been observing and working with this semester. He is a great kid, but has learning and social disabilities, with his main disability being his stuttering problem. My observations have included IEP meetings, parent meetings, and casual talks. I have even employed Carson and included him on several jobs where he was taught to interact with customers and write invoices. I introduced him to several trade schools and apprenticeship programs, and…

Paper # C The early Physical Development in a child’s body is very critical; many factors play in physical and mental health. A child’s physical and mental development is affected from early experiences and relationship with parent, relative teachers and peers, which can shape the architecture of the developing brain and body. Mental health provides an essential foundation of stability that supports the functioning of a child’s development. Young children can be affected by many social,…