Alternative Teaching Strategies

Introduction

From Infancy until the late stages of our lives , we undergo different stages of development . In each of the stages , we are supposed to be mastering some craft , or prioritizing a task that we have not given the time of day before . Several psychologists have come up with theories about these stages , each intertwined with the other

This will concentrate on Jean Piaget 's theory of Cognitive Development , specifically , to Concrete Operational Stage , in relation to the experience of tutoring Math to the children in St . Kitts

According Perret-Clermont and

Bessire (2004 ) from encyclopedia .com Piaget compared ideas and facts , the philosophy of science and the observation of children , working out the fundamental principles of genetic epistemology

Concrete Operational Stage happens from the ages 7 to 11 years According to Piaget , at this stage , reversibility , that is objects when changed has the ability to return to its original state , is attained According to Marshall (1998 ) in encyclopedia .com , In the stage of so-called concrete-operations (which lasts from about the ages of 7 to 11 or 12 , children start to classify objects , can take the role of others and understand the nature of cause and effect , but still have difficulty thinking about abstract concepts without referring these to real events or particular images with which they are familiar

Edwards , Hopgood , Rosenberg and Rush (2009 ) further wrote in their website

During this stage , the thought process becomes more rational , mature and 'adult like , or more 'operational , although this process most...