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How Kids Learn
Does Your Child Learn the Hard Way?
By Michael Grose Does your child act before he thinks? Does your child pat a dog, even though you warn him not to? Would your child ignore a 'wet paint, don't touch' sign and check it out for themselves? If you're busy nodding your head then chances are your child likes to learn through trial and error.
Striving to Success - The First Steps
by Tahlia Mandie, Direction Exploring With the school year beginning, students and parents are most probably gearing up for the year ahead. Students beginning their VCE or final years may be thinking about the journey ahead, possible challenges and even maybe career and life decisions. Achieving a sense of success is on everyone’s mind.
Reading to Kids a Crucial Tool in English Language Development
February 2010 Poring over the works of Dr. Seuss, the adventures of the Bernstain Bears or exploring the worlds of Hans Christian Andersen with a child has always been a great parent-child bonding exercise. ...read more »
Less Talk from Parents Can Encourage More Speech from Children
February 2010 A University of Sydney study has found children with well below average language skills performed almost as well as their normally developing peers just four months after their parents made a few simple changes in the way they interacted with them. ...read more »
Can Texting Help Kids to Spell?
January 2010 Children who are heavy users of mobile phone text abbreviations such as LOL (laughing out loud), plz (please), l8ter (later) and xxx (kisses), are unlikely to be problem spellers and readers, a new study funded by the British Academy has found. ...read more »
Environment Plays Key Role in Kids Reading Skills
January 2010 While genetics play a key role in children’s initial reading skills, a new study of twins is the first to demonstrate that environment plays an important role in reading growth over time. This further underlines the importance of the home environment in influencing children's reading abilities.
Girls and Boys Equally Good at Maths
January 2010 Girls around the world are not worse at math than boys, even though boys are more confident in their math abilities, and girls from countries where gender equity is more prevalent are more likely to perform better on mathematics assessment tests, according to a new analysis of international research.
For Improving Early Literacy, Reading Comics Is No Child's Play
November 2009 Although comics have been published in newspapers since the 1890s, they still get no respect from some teachers and librarians, despite their current popularity among adults. But according to a University of Illinois expert in children's literature, critics should stop tugging on Superman's cape and start giving him and his superhero friends their due. ...read more »
Parents Just Don't Understand- The Role Of Parental Control
November 2009 Many parents like to meddle in their children's lives. Sometimes this can be beneficial, if the meddling is in the form of parental guidance or setting rules. ...read more »
Help For WA Parents To Help Children Learn
September 3, 2009 Parents and carers of public primary school students will soon receive their own purpose-written guide to help their children with mathematics. ...read more »
