The Impact of Genes on IQ and Personality

We’ve learnt that the correlation between your daycare children’s genes and his behavior will grow increasingly weaker over time, as he approaches adulthood. But what about IQ and personality, two of the hottest topic in the nature vs nurture debate.

Studies seem to suggest a strong correlation between your daycare child’s environment and his mental development but the correlation disappears by adolescence. It seems that gene is more important than environment when explaining IQ in the general adult population.

The study of genes on personality also seem to point in the same direction. It suggest that genes do contribute significantly to a person’s personality as he progresses towards adulthood.

The question which one might ask is does genes determine who we are? If so, where does free will come in? Can we choose to be smarter by learning more or less temperamental by learning to control our tempers?

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Creating a positive learning environment

So how do we create a positive learning environment which encourages learning?

Creating a positive learning climate requires some planning and work on the part of the daycare giver. For an environment to be conducive for learning, you need to look at a number of factors:

Involving the learners – Studies seems to suggest that your daycare children will learn better when his involvement is high. Which means allow your daycare children to provide input with regards to the choice of topic and schedule, encourage them to ask questions and discuss and be involved in hands on activities related to the topics.

Use a variety of learning method – Do not limit yourself to one method when delivering a topic to your daycare children. Use a combination of role plays, demonstrations, discussions, activities and audio visual aids to make learning more interesting.

Provide feedback and boost their self esteem – Let your daycare children know where he is doing well and encourage behaviours which lead towards a positive learning attitude. Praise the child when he is doing a fantastic job, when the child asks question, react positively, let the parents know how well the child is progressing in school and encourage them to reinforce his learning at home.

Treat each daycare child as an individual – Recognise and acknowledge the individual differences of the different daycare children. Encourage your daycare children to learn from each other and ensure that all the daycare children participate actively in all the activities.

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Is your Daycare Children's Development Lead by Genes or Environment?

Ever wondered if your daycare children’s development determined by his genes or his environment? What is the correlation between the child’s genes and his environment on his growth?

Studies seems to suggest that a strong correlation between your daycare children’s genes and his physical developments such as growth to his body, brain, vision and dietary needs but the environment seems to have a stronger correlation for psychological development such as social, emotional and cognitive developments.

Studies also revealed that as a person develops, the correlation between a person and his genes on his behaviour will grow increasingly weaker whilst the correlation between a person and his environment on his behaviour grows increasingly stronger.

This has highlighted the importance of a daycare provider on the daycare children's behaviour. And therefore, as a daycare child giver, it is essential to ensure that your daycare children grow up in an environment where learning is encouraged to mould children with a positive lifelong learning attitude towards being self directed learners.

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Principle of using Multimedia Learning

How do you use the multimedia to help daycare children better understand a complex concept or topic?

Multiple Representation Principle: It is more effective to use a dual modal approach of present information to daycare children. That means that it is more effective to present a concept or topic in words and pictures rather than solely relying on using words.

Contiguity Principle: When explaining the concept to the daycare children, present corresponding words alongside the pictures rather than separately.

Split-Attention Principle: Instead of presenting both words and pictures visually to the daycare children, present the words auditorily whilst the pictures visually. If both words and pictures are presented visually, it will overload the visual information processing system of the daycare children and thereby reducing information processing effectiveness and retention.

Individual Differences Principle: You need to take into consideration the individual differences of the daycare children especially their prior knowledge. A daycare child who’s had some prior knowledge or exposure of the concept will be able to understand the concept than a child who’s hearing it for the first time as they will be able to immediately associate and visualize the words when presented.

Coherence Principle: It is more effective to use few rather than many words to present a concept or topic to the daycare children. Whenever possible, present the concept or topic in a summarized version.

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