Assignment: The Learning Child

THE LEARNING CHILD

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ETH102L

First Name: Thabiso Mbali

Surname: Mthethwa

Module Name: The Learning Child ( ETH102L)

Student No: 44181108

Assignment No: 0 2

Unique No: 269245

No Questions:10

Due Date: 16 April 2015

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ETH102L Assignment 02
The Learning Child
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Assignment and Student information
Table Contents
Section A (Question and answer )
Various myths about learning & intelligent
Approach implementation work with young people
(Question and Answer)
Examples of other setting for teachers to deliver lessons
(Question and answer)
Creative Revolution (6 six question to ask for new ideas)
Examples of effectively catch-up learning programs ( 6.1, 6.2, 6.3)
SIX (6) linking…show more content…
Name and discuss EIGHT (8) lessons that one can learn from embracing sport.
1.1> All sport Achiever has a dream: They dream the impossible and make it happen. They dream is to be beat their opponents, to break the most impossible record and to be a Campion.
1.2> All have specific goals. And they break those goals down into achievable steps. So while the dream is always there, they build on their success. You can’t be a world Campion overnight; you have to tackle hurdles regularly along the way and celebrate each success as it is achieved. 1.3> All sports achievers combine mind, body and action. They know that their goals can be achieved when they link the right mental attitude, fitness, and diet and physical skills.
1.4> they all have vision; they learn to visualise their goal. To see their achievements in advance. To play through their next football match like a video of the mind. Jack Nicklaus, possibly the greatest golfer of all time, says 90 percent of his success has come from his ability to visualize where every individual shot is going to land.
1.5> they all have passion. They have an overwhelming desire to…show more content…
Talent is very much based on ability to be great at everything. Talent is very much based on a built-in series of aptitudes. And different aptitudes help people excel in different ways. The aptitudes that make a great accountant do not necessarily make a great drummer. And the attributes that make a fine chess player do not guarantee success as a creative painter.
2.2> Myth 2: That there is only one form of intelligence
What we now know: There are many forms of intelligence, and certainly many traits and talents.
Howards Gardner, Professor of Psychology and Education at Harvard University, says there are at least eight separate types of intelligence, and there may be many more. “The single most important contribution education can make to a child’s development, he says is to help him toward a field where his talents best suit him, where he will be satisfied and competent”. America he argues has completely lost sight of this. “Instead we subject everyone to an education where, if you succeed, you will best suit to be a college professor. And we can evaluate everyone along the way according to whether they meet that narrow standard of