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Part IV Middle ChildhoodChapter 9

• Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle
  Childhood

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Focus Ann Bancroft, Polar Explorer

• First woman to reach the North and South Poles
  by nonmotorized means
• First woman to ski across Greenland and part of
  first team of women to ski across the landmass of
  Antarctica
• Adventuresome nature stems from childhood. Her
  parents encouraged risk-taking and fostered a
  love of the outdoors
• In seventh grade, was diagnosed with dyslexia, a
  challenge that later gave her the determination
  to succeed as a polar explorer
• Today Bancroft is a leader in helping children
  with learning disabilities, as well as shattering
  stereotypes about women

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Aspects of Physical Development

• Growth
• Nutrition
• Malnutrition
• Obesity and Body Image
• Motor Development

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Checkpoint Can you

• Explain the significance of rough-and-tumble
  play?
• Describe changes in the types of physical play
  children engage in as they grow older?
• Explain why some children are not as physically
  fit as they should be?

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Health and Safety

• Medical Problems
• Vision and Hearing Problems
• Asthma
• HIV and AIDS
• Accidental Injuries

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Piagetian Approach The Concrete Operational
Child

• How do school-age childrens thinking and moral
  reasoning differ from those of younger children?

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Advances in Selected Cognitive Abilities During
Middle Childhood
Spatial thinking Seriation and transitive inference
Cause and effect Inductive and deductive reasoning
Classification Conservation
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Whats Your View?

• Do you agree that intent is an important factor
  in morality? In what ways does the criminal
  justice system reflect or contradict this view?

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Information Processing and Intelligence

• Memory and Other Processing Skills
• Basic Processes and Capacities
• Metamemory Understanding Memory
• Mnemonics Strategies for Remembering
• Selective Attention
• Information Processing and Piagetian Tasks

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Information Processing and Intelligence

• Psychometric Approach Testing Intelligence
• Traditional Group and Individual Tests
• The IQ Controversy
• Is There More Than One Intelligence?
• Other New Directions in Intelligence Testing

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Eight Intelligences, According to Gardner
Intelligence Fields or Occupations Where Used
Linguistic Writing, editing, translating
Logical-mathematical Science, business, medicine
Musical Musical composition, conducting
Spatial Architecture, carpentry, city planning
Bodily-kinesthetic Dancing, athletics, surgery
Interpersonal Teaching, acting, politics
Intrapersonal Counseling, psychiatry, spiritual leadership
Naturalist Hunting, fishing, farming, gardening, cooking
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Language and Literacy

• Vocabulary, Grammar, and Syntax
• Pragmatics Knowledge about Communication
• Literacy
• Identifying Words
• Comprehension
• Writing

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The Child in School

• Entering First Grade

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The Child in School

• Influences on School Achievement
• The Child Self-Efficacy Beliefs and Academic
  Motivation
• Parenting Practices
• Socioeconomic Status
• Teacher Expectations
• The Educational System
• The Culture

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The Child in School

• How do schools meet the needs of
  non-English-speaking children and those with
  learning problems?

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The Child in School

• Second Language Education
• Children with Learning Problems
• Mental Retardation
• Learning Disabilities
• Hyperactivity and Attention Deficits
• Educating Children with Disabilities

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The Child in School

• Gifted Children
• Identifying Gifted Children
• The Lives of Gifted Children
• Defining and Measuring Creativity
• Educating Gifted Children

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Digging Deeper

• Childrens Understanding of Illness

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Practically Speaking

• The Homework Debate