People all over the world take note, when President Barack Obama has received the Nobel Peace Prize 10th December in Oslo, Norway.
On the same day in Stockholm, 13 citizens of the world in suspense, including five women, have the Nobel Prize medal, certificate and cash prize from King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden.
Most Americans know the Nobel Prize for Peace. Some of us know the time for the Nobel Prize in fields such as economics and literature. Most NobelWinning work in the shadows, because the Americans are concerned.
However, these winners well into their country and other nations for outstanding achievements and dedication are recognized that the academic world's most prestigious honor has earned.
We Americans want to lead our nation in science and technology. Nevertheless, our government has cut research grants offered to researchers and universities, which discourage the kind of risk-taking that lead to innovationrevolutionary science.
As an elementary teacher and special education for 25 years, I have seen the effects of the ambiguous attitude of our country in the fields of mathematics, science, technology and higher education. No Child Left Behind exert enormous pressure to pass on to schools for their students to the rigorous tests in mathematics and science. However, my husband said, a Nobel laureate in physics, that his best students to think twice before he physical, because there's so little funding in this areaScience.
Other countries such as Japan, Korea and China to spend enormous sums of money for research. Our nation is at a crossroads. We carry or allow to renounce the world?
The solution begins not just with schools and universities, but also with the parents of children that have a value of academic excellence in the field of pop culture, entertainment and celebrities. Here are some ideas to prepare young people for success:
• Science Mentor - A parent in one of my classes a few years agoworked for the removal of ice cores in Antarctica. He came to school wearing a jacket, boots and core drilling equipment and ice slides are armed, to see the children. Were hypnotized. Are children who years later remembered the man from the ice. " Show children what a real scientist makes a big impression.
• Give your children fill the time and tools for creative play - The parents now lists her children with all kinds of activities. Consequently, children have less time for creative play. They aremust not feasible on the discovery that comes from the design, construction. Take the time to write, draw and build things with your children. Give them construction toys, Lego and art supplies. For the children of the creative process is important, not the product.
• Limit screen time - I have parents who are limiting their children, watching television or on weekends, which have managed to get rid of it, all the TV. Children can not regulate the television or computer. E 'for us as parentsHelp.
• Encourage the child difficult - some of the brightest children, it would be difficult, because they question their parents or teachers told them everything. Although this can be frustrating, remember that it is also a sign for your child an independent thinker. Encourage children to try their own solutions, even if they fail to build flexibility and problem-solution.
• Model Value objects - children need their parents to create, art, gamesMusic, dance, try a new recipe to make mistakes. Open a child's sense of discovery and see the child finds the same joy.
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