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Expect More : Children Can Do Remarkable Things by Anne Grall Reichel; with Becky Gill & Joanne Efantis Trahanas is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Expect More : Children Can Do Remarkable Things about?

This book encourages teachers, parents, grandparents, and volunteers who work with children to expect more. It focuses on the skills children will need to compete in a highly competitive global economy. From systems thinking, to interpreting complex visual images, to integrative thinking our children need a whole new skill set. For too long science and social studies have been moved to the back burner. Ironically these subjects hold great interest and opportunity to investigate concepts in depth. We need to bring them to center stage. Throughout the book the author provides many concrete examples of ways for teachers and parents to engage children in meaningful conversation and problem solving. Somewhere along the way we seem to have stopped challenging children and started enabling them instead. Perhaps this is through no fault of our own? As teachers and parents we genuinely care about children. We feel for them when they are sick, when they are bullied or when they are struggling. Quite simply it is our nature to protect. With the best of intentions we tend to try and eliminate the struggle. But the struggle is essential to growth and a personal sense of accomplishment. As child

Author

Anne Grall Reichel; with Becky Gill & Joanne Efantis Trahanas

Publisher

Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9781452076317

Subjects

Education