Need an argumentative essay on Critically Evaluate Articles in the Field of Adult Development. Needs to be 4 pages. Please no plagiarism.Download file to see previous pages... Thus, it is hoped that t

Need an argumentative essay on Critically Evaluate Articles in the Field of Adult Development. Needs to be 4 pages. Please no plagiarism.

Thus, it is hoped that the vaccination would win over the previously thought and totally debunked theories on its association to autism and mercury poisoning which would have an effect not just on the young child but grow with the individual continuously causing harm to the total development of the individual and society as a whole. In the second article, Stipek emphasized the need for attention to be given to the individual needs of children rather than a “one size fits all” approach. Stipek argued that the pressure put on elementary and secondary schools to improve the academic development of the child could possibly negatively affect their overall development if the implementation did not take place in a systematic manner. It is interesting to note that the government in trying to improve academics may in fact be stifling the overall development of our students the nation’s future. As Stipek noted care must be taken to ensure every dimension of the student’s development is taken into consideration when creating programs for the improvement of the child. The child, as a sponge in its early developmental stages is set for an enormous amount of teaching and learning to take place. Learning should therefore be fun and a focus on academics only would endanger development. Consideration therefore must be given to the physiological, emotional, social, behavioral and academic needs of the students. Finally, Stipek spoke to the self efficacy of the individual, if a child through praise and careful and systematic teaching believes that he/she is capable of completing a task then that task will be completed at a higher level than an individual who believes he/she cannot. The effect of self fulfilling prophecy on the learning of the child is therefore vital to the teaching and learning process. Further, all stakeholders must take cognizant of the fact that each individual develops differently and at different rates therefore one size does not fit all. Improvement of academics requires focus not only on the academic needs of the individual but all developmental areas in fact focus on academic success only will only cause more damage than good to the overall teaching and learning of our nation’s children. Week 2 In his article, entitled, An Educator's Journey toward Multiple Intelligences, Seider, presents a detailed account of his misconceptions about multiple intelligences (MI) on one hand and the reality of MI as addressed by Howard Gardner on the other. Seider appears to have had an intimate relationship with Gardner, thus most of his misconceptions as well as those of many other interpreters of MI were explained. The major misconceptions addressed were the wrong understanding that MI was made to fit students into at least one particular MI, secondly, that every child must be gifted in at least one of the intelligences and thirdly, every lesson should be presented in a manner that would incorporate the eight intelligences. Contrary to these misconceptions Seider made a point of highlighting the “real” purpose and intent of the widespread MI. Firstly, MI was intended to be an alternative conception of intelligence.