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Re: [Phys-l] thinking skills (and how to teach thinking skills)




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| The really major increase in brain development is at age 10+
| and if you target improvement of thinking skills at that age,
| there is evidence that it has maximal effectiveness. There
| is also a window of opportunity around age 18, and also
| possibly one at age 26. Beyond this there are other windows
| of opportunity in elementary school especially in first
| grade. There has been some research which indicates that
| targeting thinking skills at the windows of opportunity is
| the most effective. There have been some experiments that
| showed that heavy duty coursework should be done then, and
| that more life skills (work in the community) should be done
| in between those windows.

Are there windows of vulnerability at later ages? :-)

I'm thinking that hitting the half century mark, I seem to show some.