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Intelligence is our ability to think, to learn from experience, to solve problems, to innovate, and to adapt to new situations.
Our brain functions as the central intelligence agency.
Like a computer our brain is both the hardware and the software that helps us in our thinking, decision making and problem solving.
We engage our brains in creative, critical and meta-cognitive processes.
Our thinking skills help us shape our actions and construct new knowledge. The quality of our thinking affects our survival and progress.
THINKING, COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS & YOUR CHILD'S BRAIN
THINKING, COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS & YOUR CHILD'S BRAIN
Thinking involves a complex process consisting of many key COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS. These cognitive functions can be classified into stages and levels of operations. They can operate in either a highly active state or a fragile state, or sometimes even remaining DORMANT in a child's brain, requiring intensive coaching, training and guidance to ignite, activate and make them easily accessible and ready for application.
When a child's thinking or cognitive functions operate at a highly ignited state, their learning and performance is enhanced.
When these functions exist in a fragile or inaccessible and dormant state children can experience learning difficulties, de-motivation and alienation
When a child's thinking or cognitive functions operate at a highly ignited state, their learning and performance is enhanced.
When these functions exist in a fragile or inaccessible and dormant state children can experience learning difficulties, de-motivation and alienation
3 MAIN STAGES OF THINKING
3 MAIN STAGES OF THINKING
As your child prepares to engage in learning, problem solving or decision making, they tap into the active thinking functions of their ignited brains. Their thinking occurs in 3 main stages:
STAGE 1- gather and receive information signals,
STAGE 2- process and make sense of those signals and
STAGE 3- generate new outputs or solutions.
If their cognitive functions have been adequately ignited and activated and strengthened then they will have the ability to easily master these 3 stages of thinking.
If their cognitive functions have been adequately ignited and activated and strengthened then they will have the ability to easily master these 3 stages of thinking.
However if they suffer from inactive, fragile or dormant cognitive functions then they will have blockages and hurdles within these 3 stages, resulting in poor output, poor academic performance, de-motivation and alienation from learning.
However if they suffer from inactive, fragile or dormant cognitive functions then they will have blockages and hurdles within these 3 stages, resulting in poor output, poor academic performance, de-motivation and alienation from learning.
In a nutshell this is a problem that exists in many children's thinking development, which not only affects their learning and academic results, but also the quality of their lives and their future as well.
In a nutshell this is a problem that exists in many children's thinking development, which not only affects their learning and academic results, but also the quality of their lives and their future as well.
The rest of this section on INTELLIGENCE delves deeper into some of the characteristics of intelligence
The rest of this section on INTELLIGENCE delves deeper into some of the characteristics of intelligence
How is intelligence developed in children during their critical years of growing up?
Is it an attribute they are born with, and thus static with a finite capacity?
Is it a matter of biological maturity?
Or is intelligence a result of both the child's biological blueprint and the stimulation they receive from their environment?
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