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Less-structured time in children's daily lives predicts self-directed executive functioning

Barker et. al.

2014

Study shows how children, when left alone to develop their own structure, are better at self-directed processes in the future.

Emma Chiappetta teaches mathematics at Wasatch Academy in Central Utah. In her classroom, Emma focuses on educating each student individually by facilitating a competency-based curriculum in which students learn the material at their own pace through a medium of their choosing.

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Abe Moore

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Abe is a former primary school teacher in Adelaide, South Australia. Progressive education. Ungrading. Experiential learning. Learning to be a radical advocate of children.

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I think a lot of communities have a problem of too much competition, I guess. That they can't... when it gets to a point that they can't be happy for other people's accomplishments and that the only thing they can do is want to be better than the other person or the rest of them.

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