Curriculum should help children make deeper and fuller understanding of their own experience

In cooperative learning, you have a purposeful, meaningful, and authentic context in which children can sharpen their communicative skills.

When children are truly involved in the scientific process they gain understanding, knowledge, and life skills. They deepen their awareness of what's going on around them and how others contribute to their well-being.

Curriculum should help children make deeper and fuller understanding of their own experience

Of course children benefit from positive feedback. But praise and rewards are not the only methods of reinforcement. More emphasisshould be place on appreciation--reinforcement related explicitly and directly to the content of the child's interest and efforts.

All children, are born with the disposition to make sense of their experiences.

Learning to deal with setbacks, and maintaining the persistence and optimism necessary for childhood's long road to mastery are the real foundations of lasting self-esteem.