Questions:
Short essay answers - teaching and learning
1: Discuss the problem of obese children in middle childhood, and describe possible causes.
2: Discuss the role of brain maturation in motor and cognitive development during middle childhood.
3: Describe Sternberg's and Gardner's theories of multiple intelligence, and explain the significance of these theories.
4: Identify and discuss the logical operations of concrete operational thought, and give examples of how these operations are demonstrated by schoolchildren.
5: Outline Kohlberg's stage theory of moral development.
6: Differentiate several approaches to teaching reading and math, and discuss evidence regarding the effectiveness of these methods.