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Thursday, March 8, 2012, 7 p.m.
Neilson
Browsing Room / Open to the Public
How can educators and parents help children learn to take on life’s challenges,
communicate well with others, and remain committed to learning? Ellen Galinsky will
speak to students, educators, and parents about her research and recent book, Mind
in the Making, in which she describes research findings and details how parents
and educators can support children in developing seven critical skills — focus and
self-control, perspective taking, communicating, making connections, critical thinking,
taking on challenges, and self-directed, engaged learning.
 About the book
"Every decade or so, a book comes along that completely
changes how we parent. From Dr. Spock’s Baby and Child Care to T. Berry Brazelton’s
Infants and Mothers, these landmark books have influenced our thinking about
how children learn and develop and have dramatically transformed how we nurture our
children’s social, emotional and intellectual growth.
We are now poised to take another major step in our
understanding of how children learn and how parents can help with the April 2010
publication of MIND IN THE MAKING: The Seven Essential Life Skills Every Child Needs
(HarperStudio) by Ellen Galinsky, president of the Families and Work Institute. Bringing
together all of the new science of child development in an understandable way, Galinsky
offers a groundbreaking parenting book — one that will alter the way we raise
and teach our children while showing us (instead of telling us) how to go about it.
For the last eight years, Galinsky has worked with the
top researchers in the field, filming their experiments and studying their results
in an unprecedented collaborative effort to bring the science of early learning to
families and to the professionals who work with children. In MIND IN THE MAKING,
she shares what they have learned and how they have learned it. But then she takes
their findings a step further, identifying seven life skills that will help children
reach their full potential in school, the workforce — and in life. Galinsky
then shows parents how to instill these skills in their children by doing everyday
things in new ways.
The seven skills are:
- Focus and Self Control – children
need this skill in order to achieve their goals especially in a world that is filled
with distractions and information overload.
- Perspective Taking – children
who can figure out what others feel and think are less likely to get involved in
conflicts.
- Communicating – children
need to be able to determine what they want to communicate and how. This is the
skill teachers and employers feel is most lacking today.
- Making Connections – children
who can make unusual connections are more creative and can go beyond knowing information
to using information well.
- Critical Thinking – children
need to be able to search for reliable knowledge to guide their beliefs, decisions,
and actions.
- Taking on Challenges – children
who can take on challenges instead of avoiding or simply coping with them will
do better in school and in life.
- Self-Directed Engaged Learning – lifelong
learners can change as the world changes in order to reach their full potential.
MIND IN THE MAKING explains how children learn these
skills and how we can help them through every day activities. Galinsky recommends
hundreds of tips, including playing games like “Simon Says,” but in new
ways – by doing the opposite of what the leader is doing (to practice self
control), asking why, what, where and who questions (to practice communicating),
and encouraging children to pursue their passions. She empowers parents to make a
difference starting right now and at any age — it’s never too late to encourage
these skills in your children.With this book parents now have the information and
the tools to help their children achieve their full potential not only in school
but throughout their lives."
(from mindinthemaking.org)
About Ellen Galinsky
To
read Ellen Galinsky's bio, please
click here.
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