After reading this chapter, students should be able to:

• Identify the changes in height and weight that girls and boys experience during middle childhood
  
  
• Explain the variables behind cultural differences in height and weight
  
  
• Explain the considerations one must account for before taking the growth hormone Protropin
  
  
• Identify the benefits of proper nutrition
  
  
• Identify the factors commonly related to childhood obesity
  
  
• Identify the various ways of keeping children physically active
  
  
• Explain the differences in the gross motor skills of boys and girls in middle childhood
  
  
• Explain the improvements in fine motor skills during middle childhood
  
  
• Explain the factors that trigger asthma attacks and the reasons behind the increase in reported cases of asthma over the last two decades
  
  
• Describe the debate behind the use of anti-depressants to treat childhood depression
  
  
• Describe the potential impact of having visual, auditory, and/or speech problems
  
  
• Identify the common signs of ADHD and the different recommended ways of treating the disorder
  
  
• Describe the cognitive advances of the concrete operational period
  
  
• Describe the common critiques of Piaget’s theory of cognitive development
  
  
• Describe the advancements in memory during middle childhood
  
  
• Describe how metamemory and control strategies impact the memory of school-age children
  
  
• Explain the keyword strategy to improving memory
  
  
• Describe educational innovations that stem from Vygotsky’s idea of the zone of proximal development
  
  
• Describe the advances in language mechanics that occur during middle childhood
  
  
• Describe the different approaches to teaching bilingual children
  
  
• Identify the trends of who gets educated around the world
  
  
• Describe the stages of reading skill development
  
  
• Compare and contrast the code-based and whole language approaches to reading
  
  
• Describe the societal models that motivated multicultural education
  
  
• Explain how the pluralistic society model encourages the development of a bicultural identity
  
  
• Explain the impact Binet had on the study of intelligence
  
  
• Understand that IQ is a ratio that takes into account mental and chronological ages
  
  
• Compare and contrast the common approaches to measuring intelligence
  
  
• Describe the alternative conceptions of intelligence proposed in the chapter
  
  
• Describe racial differences in IQ scores
  
  
• Explain the controversy behind The Bell Curve
  
  
• Describe the benefits of mainstreaming
  
  
• Understand the distinctions between mild retardation, moderate retardation, severe, and profound retardation
  
  
• Describe the two common approaches to teaching the gifted and talented students