To find the particular way to help a child, you needed to know them from the front, the back, and the side. We often underestimate the power of simply thinking differently about children- who they are and the processes that brought them to this particular point in their lives.
In The Children You Teach, Susan Engel, author of The Hungry Mind: The Origins of Curiosity, draws on her many years as a developmental scientist and classroom teacher to help teachers understand the way children think, and then how to apply that knowledge in the classroom.
