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Cognitive skills
The following articles, taken from recent issues of our Optimus newsletters, will prove invaluable for anyone with a professional or personal interest in Cognitive skills. To ensure you stay up-to-date with the very latest thinking in this area, please make use of the articles below. If you can’t find what you’re looking for here, simply click on another category on the left or 'search the library'.
Cognitive acceleration | Cognitive skillsPhilip Adey, one of the original proponents of CASE (cognitive acceleration through science education), reviews developments in the approach and critically examines its use in schools Child abuse and its effect on brain development | Cognitive skillsIn the first of two articles, Jenni Whitehead explores present understanding and research on how abuse experienced in childhood affects the child’s developing brain function and how this in turn affects learning. Vygotsky and the child apprentice | Cognitive skillsLev S. Vygotsky is the subject of Steve Mynard's article on the psychology of child development. Piaget and the development of intelligence | Cognitive skillsSteve Mynard opens a series of articles on educational thinkers who have influenced our approaches to early education. Activities to develop semantic knowledge | Cognitive skillsSemantic knowledge is the ability to understand narrative. This includes the ability to understand the meanings of words in different contexts, as well as a knowledge of the meaning of relationships between words. The activities listed here will help develop semantic knowledge. Activities to develop word finding skills | Cognitive skillsWord finding is the ability to access vocabulary from the long-term memory. These activities can help develop word finding skills and can be used in lessons for the benefit of all pupils. Activities to develop and improve listening skills and attention | Cognitive skillsListening is the ability to attend to sounds across a range of stimuli. Pupils with listening and attention difficulties have one of two problems... Activities to develop verbal comprehension | Cognitive skillsVisual comprehension is the ability to listen to information that has been given orally, then remember it, understand it and use the information across a range of tasks. These activities can help develop skills in this area, and can be incorporated into lessons for the benefit of all pupils. Activities to develop auditory memory | Cognitive skillsAuditory memory is the ability to recall information that has been given orally. The activities listed here can help develop auditory memory and can be incorporated into lessons for the benefit of all pupils. Activities to develop visual memory | Cognitive skillsVisual memory is the ability to recall information that has been presented visually. The activities listed here can help develop visual memory and can be incorporated into a lesson for the benefit of all pupils. Activities to develop visual discrimination skills | Cognitive skillsVisual discrimination is the ability to recognise similarities and differences between visual images. The activities listed here can help develop visual discrimination skills and can be used in lessons to benefit all children. Activities to develop auditory discrimination skills | Cognitive skillsAuditory discrimination is the ability to detect similarities and differences when listening to sounds. The activities listed here can be used to strengthen auditory discrimination skills and can be incorporated into a lesson to benefit all children. NLP - understanding your students | Cognitive skillsAs teachers with a new class, we tend to get a good idea pretty quickly about which students are going to do well in our classes, which ones are going to struggle, and which ones are not even going to try. Most Related:
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