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To Be Ready for Kindergarten, Teachers and Researchers Say Social-Emotional Skills Are Key

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One is physical development, including gross motor skills, which allow kids to run, hop and skip, as well as fine motor skills, which help children hold a pencil or use scissors. Another is cognitive development, such as reasoning and problem-solving.

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I’m a Neuroscientist. Here’s How Teachers Change Kids’ Brains.

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While we often don’t think of ourselves as brain changers, when we teach we have an enormous impact on our students’ cognitive development. Proliferation is associated with brain building, and is highly dependent on childhood experiences like play, socialization and hearing stories read aloud. Teachers change brains.

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Parents Don't Need to Be Coding Experts, Just Willing to Learn With Their Children

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Most importantly, they walked away with a new activity to do together, just like reading a book or playing a board game. We also know from existing family literacy research that shared reading interventions and home reading programs can enhance children’s linguistic and cognitive development. Let’s do this again.”

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The Case for Expanding the Definition of 'Personalization' to Meet the Needs of the Whole Child

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Source: Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Academic development is represented by the content areas required on the path toward a high school diploma (e.g., math, literacy, science, social studies, foreign language, art). Cognitive development includes skills like those involved in memory and processing information.

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To Combat the ‘COVID Slide,’ Tutoring Program Pairs Elementary Schoolers with College Students

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Michelle Lamont’s 7-year-old daughter, Savannah, was already struggling with reading when her school shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic in March. We want to make sure she has the confidence she needs [for reading], instead of being angry and frustrated and hating it.” About 230 miles east of Hampshire, in Knoxville, Tenn.,

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Can Video Games Help Early Learners Grow?

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Cognitive, motor, language and social skills, among others, are beginning to develop as children learn about their world, learn how to communicate and start to make friends. The early years in a child’s life are a time of discovery. That’s part of a troublesome trend that may require more adult vigilance.

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Can Chinese Edtech Regulations Stifle a Culture of Striving?

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On one hand, I really want to respect cognitive development, and on the other hand, I also dream to be a proud mom,” Hu says. “I With their advanced degrees and English-language skills, they represent a selective set of perspectives. Other observers read between the lines and discern another motivation.

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