A practical guide to ensuring your child's success in school.
What makes children succeed in school? For the past twenty years, the focus has been on building children's self-esteem to help them achieve more in the classoom. But positive reinforcement hasn't necessarily resulted in measureable academic improvement. Through extensive research, combined with ongoing classroom implementation of their ideas, Deborah Stipek, Dean of the School of Education at Stanford, and Kathy Seal have created a program that will encourage motivation and a love of learning in children from toddlerhood...
A practical guide to ensuring your child's success in school.
What makes children succeed in school? For the past twenty years, the focus has bee...
It begins harmlessly. Parents chatting on the playground compare their babies' first milestones: "Has Erin started talking? Addy s already using five-word sentences " Inevitably, Erin s mom and dad feel anxious. Later, as report cards, standardized tests, tryouts, playoffs, auditions and social cliques fill their child's world, parents' anxiety intensifies. The older kids get, the more competition they face, whether in sports, academics or the arts. Hovering in the background is the race for admission to a top-tier college. To help panicky parents deal with the torrential emotions stirred...
It begins harmlessly. Parents chatting on the playground compare their babies' first milestones: "Has Erin started talking? Addy s already using five-...
