Howard Grader's Analysis

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While there might be multiple ways to measure intelligence, one way psychologist Howard Grader described intelligence was by dividing it in 8 segments. Individuals may be more smarter in one segment than the other , making everyone's sense of intelligence unique to the way we learn. This model suggests that schools, especially for the middle childhood years (6-12) be by using a variety of teaching instruments and rather than the traditional reading, writing, and arithmetic basis of learning. Gardner's eight intelligences are- musical, bodily kinetics, logical mathematical, linguistic, spatial, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalistic.
In 1975 Congress passed a law to ensure that children with disabilities or special needs be related the same way as their peers. For instance, before The Education For All Handicapped Children Act was passed children with a lower id due to disabilities would have to be placed in a different classroom away from their peers. Not only does this …show more content…

In this stage children are learning to master in a sport, school subject or in another area to compete with their peers and feel superior based on their accomplishments. If children fail, they will feel inferior and inadequate for their age. This stage is particularly critical for children, owing to the fact that these types of successes or failures stick to them until adulthood. As a future dietitian, interested in working with these children, it is important to make parents with overweight or obese children to be aware of the type of language that they use to address this issue with them. I have personally seen how parents blame their kids in public areas for “eating too much and getting fatter” that personally breaks my heart. In this age group to make sure that they don't classify them as “a failure” or blame them for being