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Becoming Brilliant: What Science Tells Us About Raising Successful Children (APA LifeTools Series),Used
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New York Times Bestseller!Becoming Brilliant offers solutions that parents can implement right now. Backed by the latest scientific evidence and illustrated with examples of whats being done right in schools today, this book introduces the 6Cscollaboration, communication, content, critical thinking, creative innovation, and confidencealong with ways parents can nurture their childrens development in each area.In just a few years, today's children and teens will forge careers that look nothing like those their parents and grandparents knew. Even the definition of "career" and "job" are changing as more people build their own teams to create new businesses, apps, and services. Although these changes are well underway, our system of K12 education in the United States lags behind.Our education system still subscribes to the idea that content is king. The exclusive focus on content is reflected in what we test and how we teach, and even the toys we offer our children at home. Employers want to hire excellent communicators, critical thinkers, and innovators in short, they want brilliant people. But they are often disappointed. So what can we do, as parents, to help our children be brilliant and successful? Stories about the failures of our educational system abound, but most of them stop after pointing out the problems. Becoming Brilliant goes beyond complaining to offer solutions that parents can apply right now.Authors Roberta Michnick Golinkoff and Kathy HirshPasek provide a sciencebased framework for how we should be educating children in and outside of school. Parents become agents of change for children's success when they nurture six critical skills. Constructed from the latest scientific evidence and presented in an accessible way rich with examples, this book introduces the 6Cs collaboration, communication, content, critical thinking, creative innovation, and confidence along with tips to optimize children's development in each area. Taken together, these are the skills that will make up the straightA report card for success in the 21st century.
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