by Beth Hopkins | Jan 13, 2015 | Education Blog
Students in Finland seem like slackers. They don’t start schooling until the age of seven. There is no testing until high-school. There is no standardized curriculum and hardly any “gifted” programs. Recess periods are long. Homework assignments are short. And yet,...
by Beth Hopkins | Jan 12, 2015 | Education Blog
The challenge for most parents today is that by grade two, their child has already developed poor eating habits – not only because they crave junk food, but because that’s what they see on TV, in their lunchrooms, at the market and within vending machines....
by Beth Hopkins | Jan 1, 2015 | Education Blog
Every learner is different. That’s an inconvenient fact for a modern educational system which employs a one-size-fits-all approach, standardizing more and more, and testing with multiple-choice exams. Rather than allow this to hinder your child, you can turn it into...
by Beth Hopkins | Dec 31, 2014 | Education Blog
“The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. She studies it because she takes pleasure in it, and she takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful.” So said Jules Henri Poincaré, a French mathematician, physicist and engineer, in his 1908 book...
by Beth Hopkins | Nov 10, 2014 | Education Blog
According to Stanford psychologist, Carol Dweck, there are two ways that a child can look at a challenging task. One way – the traditional one – is to think of their abilities as fixed, or set in stone. They cannot change their aptitudes and there is a lot...
by Beth Hopkins | Nov 9, 2014 | Education Blog
Having published over 50 articles on cognitive development, aggression, autism, ADHD and depression, Harvard Professor Dr. John Ratey knows a thing or two about childhood development. In his book, “Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain”, he...
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