1. 12-Middle Childhood – Cognitive 6-11 yrs. Elementary School

2. What could these be used to teach?

3. What could these be used to teach?
Seriation

4. What could these be used to teach?

5. What could these be used to teach?
Concrete operations

6. According to Piaget, the stage of thinking characteristic of middle childhood is:
concrete operational.
information processing.
formal operational.
logical operational.

7. According to Piaget, the stage of thinking characteristic of middle childhood is:
concrete operational.
information processing.
formal operational.
logical operational.

8. control processes speed of thinking knowledge base metacognition
When children learn about a particular topic, it is easier to master new learning in that area. This occurs because of the child’s ____________.
control processes
speed of thinking
knowledge base
metacognition

9. control processes speed of thinking knowledge base metacognition
When children learn about a particular topic, it is easier to master new learning in that area. This occurs because of the child’s ____________.
control processes
speed of thinking
knowledge base
metacognition

11. Video: Middle Childhood-Cognitive What do you need help with?

12. What topics do you need help with?
A. Piaget’s context vs Vygotsky’s focus
B. Piaget’s concrete operations & Seriation
C. Increasing long term memory
D. Selective attention
E. I understand

13. What topics do you need help with?
A. The pragmatics of language
B. The hidden curriculum
C. Strategies for learning language
ESL programs
Immersion
Bilingual eduction
D. No Child Left Behind & Common Core Standards
E. I understand

14. When Matt was 10 years old...
Sometimes Matt and Sally's squabbles develop into a serious fight and they progress from screaming at each other, to pushing, and sometimes even hitting. If this happens, you:
A. intervene and physically keep the children apart. You make them immediately explain each side of the story. You listen carefully, and then punish the child you think is at fault.
B. intervene and stop the children immediately. You make sure they apologize to each other before resuming play.
C. immediately put the children in separate rooms for ten minutes. You only let them resume the activity if they play calmly.
D. figure out which child is at fault, punish that child, and put the other one in time out.

15. You are a second grade teacher with a student who recently came to America from Mexico. What concepts in this chapter could you use to help this student adopt to the culture and learn material more quickly?