Archive for April, 2008

Your Child is Born Brilliant!

Much has been discussed about making your kids brilliant and geniuses, topics on which several TV serial documentaries have been aired around the world, yet many child psychologists still disagree on the best ways to boost your child’s intellect. The techniques are many and varied with experts advocating one approach or another. The approaches seem [...]

Can You Create Brilliant Kids?

Every parent dreams of their child being brilliant, of being just that one step better then they are and keep their family and community progressing upwards to allow them to feel proud parents.
The reality is with the fast speed of living in the modern world - the rat race, that dream is probably achieved by [...]

Higher Order Thinking

In 1956, Benjamin Bloom, a professor at the University of Chicago , shared his famous “Taxonomy of Educational Objectives” which has become known as Bloom’s Taxonomy.
Bloom’s Taxonomy identifies six levels within the cognitive domain of learning which can be thought of as an order of thinking skills.
At the lowest levels are knowledge and comprehension, moving [...]