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You are very excited that you have been assigned to do your student teaching internship with your favorite elementary school teacher, Mr. Cano. While helping you to prepare for a positive experience, he has asked you for your ideas on creating a healthy, holistic atmosphere for his students. He wants you to address their physical, emotional, and cognitive needs, but he also wants a special emphasis on teaching children to read. Bearing in mind all the developmental issues you have studied in this chapter, what would you present to Mr. Cano before starting to work in the classroom with the children?
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Your roommates are arguing about whose ideas were more appropriate for application to education, Piaget's or Sternberg's. They do, however, agree that intelligence tests are biased and should not be used. Since you are taking a class in life-span development, they turn to you to determine whether Piaget's or Sternberg's theories and applications are more useful, and they also want you to confirm their stand on intelligence tests. What can you tell them?





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