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Parenting
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- Getting
involved in your child's school can be enjoyable and
rewarding. A growing number of schools actively encourage
parental involvement, but most teachers have not had any
training or advice on working with parents. Some teachers
find working with parents difficult. As a parent you can do
a lot to make it easier ...
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Although
exam stress is more apparent in secondary school children,
primary school children also suffer from it. This article
covers stress that affects young children from the ages of
about 5-11. Exams are a test that almost everyone has
to go through - some people go through it with confidence
and some people suffer stress...
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- Every
parent I know wants the best for their child. They
want their children to do well at school, in sport and
generally be healthy and happy. When children are young
there is a tendency for parents to want to do everything to
help them in certain situations. Revision time, particularly
before exams, is one such situation. You want your children
to do well in their exams. So how do you help them and at
the same time make sure that your child is allowed to do
‘his or her own thing’?
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- Developmentally
appropriate practice is based on knowledge about how
children develop and learn. As Katz states, "In a
developmental approach to curriculum design, . . .
[decisions] about what should be learned and how it would
best be learned depend on what we know of the learner's
developmental status and our understanding of the
relationships between early experience and subsequent
development" (1995, 109). To guide their decisions about
practice, all early childhood teachers need to understand
the developmental changes that typically occur in the years
from birth through age 8 and beyond, variations in
development that may occur, and how best to support
children's learning and development during these years.
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