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| Skillful 3: Reading & Writing, p. 6 |
In section 5 of the reading on page 47, "The Development of Thought", the article introduces Piaget's four stages of cognitive development (Rogers & Zemach, 2018).
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Response
There are two reasons for doing Rogers and Zemach's critical thinking exercises as blog discussions. First, there is solid evidence that putting ideas in writing, especially online, improves the quality and variety of ideas since each person can formulate and write down their ideas independently, so that a single strong personality does not dominate the group and thereby suppress ideas that we want to get (Chamorro-Premuzic, 2015; Markman, 2017; O'Connell, 2010). Second, this is a reading and writing class, so it's sensible to practice putting our ideas down quickly in writing, which also gives us a chance to review them before publishing for others to read and respond to.Note: my cited sources on the value of independent and online brainstorming, which I think also apply to our critical thinking exercises, are all from the Harvard Business Review. Don't read them now, but if you are interested in following them up, the full reference citations, including the links to each, are in the list of references below.
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Question 1
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- How can an understanding of the stages of development of thought be useful to ...
- parents?
- teachers?
- other adults?
Think for a minute or two, making some quick notes if you like; then in a comment below, write a short paragraph or two, or three if you like, to tell us your ideas in response to this question.
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References
- Chamorro-Premuzic, T. (2015, April 2). Why brainstorming works better online. Harvard Business Review. Retrieved from https://hbr.org/2015/04/why-brainstorming-works-better-online
- Markman, A. (2017, May 18). Your team is brainstorming all wrong. Harvard Business Review. Retrieved from https://hbr.org/2017/05/your-team-is-brainstorming-all-wrong
- O'Connell, A. (2010, February 4). Sometimes, it’s better to brainstorm alone. Harvard Business Review. Retrieved from https://hbr.org/2010/02/when-its-better-to-brainstorm
- Rogers, L. & Zemach, D. E. (2018). Skillful 3: Reading & Writing (2nd. ed.). London: Macmillan Education
I had already read about Piaget's stages of development, but it was interesting being reminded of them. And it has been a long time since I've thought about them. I'm not sure that I agree with everything in the article, but the writer does say that modern psychologists have revised Piaget's ideas a bit.
ReplyDeleteI do agree that knowing the four stages Piaget suggests for how we develop our thinking and emotional abilites is useful to people like adults and teachers. Knowing, for example, that very young children cannot understand that things exist separately from themselves will help us to understand their reactions. For example, if a six-month old baby is hungry and can't see food now, she will believe it does not exist, so naturally she will cry loudly: in her understanding of the world, starvation is imminent! Moving on to later ages, since very young children, say four or five years old, have not yet learned to understand that other people have emotions, they will act in ways that might seem selfish and mean, such as bullying other young children, or upsetting parents by lying, but we should not worry because they will learn later how their behaviour can emotionally affect others, and how to respond to the emotional states of other people, especially other children, who might be easily upset by the thoughtless bullying of their classmates in pre-school.
For parents, I think understanding the development of thought can allow them to work with their children well. This means parents can know how to teach their children learn to talk, to eat, and to know things around them.
ReplyDeleteFor teachers, when their know how their students develop their thoughts, they can plan or create a study programs.
I think to understanding of the stages of the development of thought be useful for 3 groups of person is useful.
ReplyDeleteParents: That's make them preparing the things that useful learning for their child or children.
Teachers: That's make them to preparing the learning properly or good recommend to child improve themselves
other adults: That's make them to understanding activity that they do.
In my opinion, understanding of the stages of development of thought be useful to both parent and teacher. Because understanding in the said matter will help them to take care and instruct their children correctly. In case of parent, they can monotor and improve a development of their children in each stage at home by themselves. For instance, before the concrete opeartional stage, a parent has to understand that their children is still not good about feeling, so a parent do not expect that their children should know about they feeling.
ReplyDeleteFurthermore, knowing the cognitive deleopment of children is really helpful for a teacher because it can support them to plan his/her instruction plan. A teacher can prepare suitable methods for children in each stage to teach them correctl such as teaching how to control feeling for 11-year-old students.
I think it useful to parents because it helps them to understand which stage their child is and why their child do or do not do things. For example when their child can not think about the feeling of them and their child is not in the concrete operational stage. They might understand that it's normal, their child will understand when he or she is in in the concrete operational stage (6 or 7 to 11 years old).
ReplyDeleteSo an understanding of the stages of development of thought helps parents to more understand about their child.
parents will know about children. What they can do when they grow up. example children use play of method of learning when 2 to 6 years old
ReplyDeleteteacher will know about what can children do and teach they that they can learn.
Adult will take care them in correct thing.