Body and Brain/Language and Learning
This is a fatty covering that helps electrical signals travel faster along the axon.
What is a myelin?
In Piaget’s theory, this is the major achievement of the preoperational stage, where words, images, and objects represent things not physically present.
- What is symbolic thought?
The three child centered programs.
- What is Montessori,
-Reggio Emilia,
- and Waldorf?
This term means each side of the brain is specialized for certain tasks
- What is lateralization?
This cognitive milestone, usually reached around age 4 or 5, is the realization that other people have beliefs, emotions, and knowledge that differ from one’s own.
- What is Theory of Mind?
The most common type of intervention program and what group is most benefited from this program.
-What is a Head Start, and is it most beneficial for children in poverty or in rural areas?
This term describes how children can hear a word once and quickly place it into a mental category.
- What is fast-mapping?
It is the term for the metaphorical "middle ground" of learning: skills that a child cannot yet do alone but can perform with the help of a mentor.
- What is the Zone of Proximal Development (or ZPD)?
You are offered a job in a program that has ten 3 year olds for every adult. You know that is too many, but you want a job.
-It would be best for you to wait for a job in a program in which children learn well. You would be happier as well as learn more in a workplace that is good for children. On the other hand, you may feel compelled to take the job, if you do, you will have to change the child/adult ratio-find a helper, perhaps a college intern or a volunteer.