A student presented on the Common Core standards and how they may impact adolescents’ learning and development more generally. He summarized some of the work by Eccles and colleagues on stage-environment fit, talked about No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top, summarized the goals of Common Core, discussed potential benefits and risks of Common Core, brought up the risk of teacher blaming, and mentioned larger-scale issues beyond curricula that affect performance. I then asked students, who were mostly critical of Common Core, to propose solutions to the educational challenges in the US, and they came up with some interesting suggestions, including more vocational training for non-college bound adolescents, more flexibility to individualize curricula, and structural changes.
I talked about some of my favorite cross-cultural studies, by Saxe (1982, 1988), on the importance of context for studying mathematical thinking.
And we talked about neuroscience work coming out of various research groups, including Casey and Steinberg (plus check out work by my colleague, Chuck Geier), that helps to explain increases in risk taking in adolescence.
“The post This week in Adolescent Development: Cognition and Schools first appeared on Eva Lefkowitz’s blog on March 24, 2014.”
I talked about some of my favorite cross-cultural studies, by Saxe (1982, 1988), on the importance of context for studying mathematical thinking.
And we talked about neuroscience work coming out of various research groups, including Casey and Steinberg (plus check out work by my colleague, Chuck Geier), that helps to explain increases in risk taking in adolescence.
“The post This week in Adolescent Development: Cognition and Schools first appeared on Eva Lefkowitz’s blog on March 24, 2014.”
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