“If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.”

Brain Tracy

 

If we want our children to be successful in their lives, we have to instill in their souls that they have the ability to attain and achieve any goal they might looking at. Love, care, attention, and support are great factors that assist children to never give up and accomplish whatever great in their lives.   

I would like to thank my instructor and all my colleagues for their supporting and sharing their wonderful experiences with us. It has been truly a great pleasure to work with every one, learn and benefit from each others. I wish you all the best in your lives and continue success in your journey.

I love to share this poem with all of you

Give Love To The Children

Give Love to the children need love everyday
Give love to the children Guide them on their way
Love's like a burning flame consumes all that stands in the way

Love is the only power on earth to take all the hatred away
GIVE LOVE TO THE CHILDREN set the children free
To make their own decisions then they will clearly see
Love is the sun the moon and the stars love is a golden ring

Love is the one thing the whole world desires be it beggar or king
GIVE LOVE TO THE CHILDREN youth has not long to stay
Love is a long term investment the best you will find any day

Love like the rising sun takes all the darkness away
Our children will tell their children and their children’s children will say
Give love to the children they are our crock of gold
and if perchance they ever stray they will come back to the fold

Give love to the children the children of today
Give love to the children and love will come to stay.

Elizabeth Quinn

Testing for intelligence

Testing children's intelligence is the only tools that it used almost in many countries to measure children’s intelligence. In this test, children are not measure accurately due to the fact that this assessment does not include all the domains of development, it is only include specific areas and exclude many aspect that might show more about child’s intelligence. Besides, it is not fair to determine child’ intelligence based only on this test because many children are doing great in the class and having highest scores but just hearing test or assessment that would be enough to panic them and put them under pressure. And what also important, is that Testing usually has a limit time, and most children cannot finish the assessment in time, that of course does not indicate that this child is not intelligence or his ability to learn is limited. Hence, I hope that in testing or assessment should take into consideration that every child is unique and his ability to internalize, and recall material is different from another.

In my country, which is Iraq, we assess children based on two types of test. The first one is done in the middle of the school year, and the second one at the end of the school. In both test, children are measure in different areas such as math, science, language and other aspects. During the test, children are given  two weeks or more depending on their grade, and every child is  responsible for memorizing everything he learned from the cover to cover. This form a challenge for every child since it is very hard to recall the whole material. I remember when I was in middle school; my mom was used to come with me because she knows that I will throw and get sick. Just remember these days make my feel sick. Truly, I believe this test does not give accurate information about children intelligence. This topic make me remember my friend when we were in the last year of high school, she used to be the top in the class from the elementary till almost the last year. During the test, she was very scared and under pressure, the result, she did not take a good score that might qualify her to be a doctor, which was her dream at that time.  Everyone in Iraq, consider the last year of the high school is the most important period in student’s life since it will determine his/her future later. Therefore, we believe that the person who is lucky in his life will pass the test and get the highest mark, and the one who is not lucky even if he was very intelligent, will not perform good at this test. Actually, we consider assessment is just like luck.

In conclusion, I wish that when we measure children’s intelligence, we do not need to focus on this test only; we need to take into consideration other aspect of child’s development such as emotional or social skills. I hope that every teacher should educate children that when are not doing well in the test, that does not mean they are not intelligence. Many children get frustrated when they know that their scores are very low and that may affect their performance later. I would love to make every child feel with comfort when hearing assessment or testing.

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