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| Common Health Problemes in Middle Childhood (6) |
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| Vision (myopia), Hearing (Otitis media), Malnutrition, Obesity, Illnesses, Injuries |
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| Life long obesity health risks (7) |
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| Diabetes, HBP, respiratory problems, liver-gall blader disease, sleep-digestive disorders, cancer, early death |
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| Causes of OBesity in Middle Childhood (6) |
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| Overweight parents, Low SES, Parents' Feeding practices, low physical activity, telivision, cultural food environment |
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| Psychological and Social COnsequence of Obesity (7) |
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| Feeling unattractive, stereotyping, teasing-social isolation, depression-emotional problems, school problems, redced life chances |
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| Gross motor skills improvments in Motor Development (4) |
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| Flexibility, Balance, agility, force |
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| Fine motor skills gained in motor development (2) |
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| Physical play development in middle childhood (5) |
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| Games with rules, rough-and-tumble play, video games, adult-organized sports, physical education |
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| Piaget's concrete operational stage |
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| extends from about 7-11 years and marks a major turning point in cognitive development. Thought is far more logical, flexible, and organzie than it was earlier. |
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| Concrete Operational Thought: Conservation |
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| Reversibility: the capacity to think through a seris of steps and then mentally reverse direction, returning to the starting point. |
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| Concrete Operational Thought: Classification |
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| can focus on relations between a general category and two specific categories at the same time. |
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| Concrete Operational Thought: Seriation |
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| The ability to order items along a quantitative dimension, such as length or weight |
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| Concrete Operational Thought: Spatial Reasoning. |
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| Attention in Middle Childhood becomes more: (3) |
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| Selective, Adaptive, Planful |
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| Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (3) |
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| Innattention, impulsivity, excessive motor activity |
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| Development of Memory Strategies - Rehearsal |
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| Repeating information to oneself |
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| Development of Memory Strategies - Organization |
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| Grouping related items together |
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| evelopment of Memory Strategies - Elaboration |
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| Creating a realationship between pieces of information not in same category. |
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| Promoting Cognitive self regulation skills (4) |
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| Point out important features of tasks, stress importance of planful learning, suggest effective learning strategies, emphasize monitoring of progress |
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| Useful for instructional planning, identify students who need individual testing |
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| Examiners need trainign & experience. Identify highly intelligent childrena dn children with learning problems |
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| Gardner's Multiple Intelligences (8) |
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| Linguistic, Logico-mathematical, musical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, naturalist, interpersonal, intrapersonal |
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| Social and Emotional Intelligence (3) |
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| Perceiving, understanding, regulating |
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| Cultural Bias in Testing (3) |
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| Communication styles, test content, stereotypes |
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| Reducing Cultural Bias in Testing (3) |
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| Combine tests with assesssment of adaptive behavior, dynamic assessment, reduce high-stakes testing |
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| Vocabulary development in middle childhood |
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| Icreases 4x during school years. 20 new words a day |
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| Grammar development in middle childhood (2) |
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| Mastery of complex constructions, advanced understanding of infinitive phrases |
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| Pragmatic development in middle childhood (2) |
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| Adjust to people and situations, phrase requests to get what they want. |
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| Characterisitcs of High-quality Elementary Education (7) |
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| Class size, physical setting, curriculum, daily activities, teacher-student interactions, evaluation of progress, relationships with families |
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| The ability to produce original, appropriate work |
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| single correct answer, emphasized on intelligence tests |
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| Generating multiple, unusual possibilities |
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| Education methods for gifted and talented children (5) |
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| Enrichment in regular classroom, pull out for special instruction, move to higher grade, multiple intelligences models |
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| Asian schools show more: (4) |
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| Cultural valuing of academic achievement, emphasis on effort, high-quality education for all, time devoted to instruction |
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