OEC Will Promote Reading Skills In A Move To Boost IQ: Thai Education

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OEC will promote reading skills in a move to boost IQ

The Nation

The Office of the Education Council (OEC) is planning to focus on children's reading skills to boost IQ levels as part of a sample project in six provinces.

The council held a press conference yesterday to promote the advance reading project, which will be organised by OEC, the Mother and Care magazine foundation, TK Park and the Office of Primary Education.

The programme, including seminars and workshops, will initially cover Chiang Mai, followed by Nakhon Sawan, Udon Thani, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Bangkok and Ayutthaya. The project will run until the end of July.

The objective of the programme is to develop young people's thinking process and analytical skills.

Suthasinee Watcharabul, OEC deputy secretarygeneral, said that according to research, children's brains develop the most between the ages of 0 and 5.

"The development of children's brains at the international level is rising every year, but a survey by the Health Department has shown that Thai youngsters have the lowest IQ at 98, which is less than the average IQ of 100 and at least 30 per cent lower than the norm," Suthasinee said.

"Moreover, the number of senior people in Thailand has increased from 700,000 to 1 million, so we have to help improve their skills in raising children as well as looking after themselves."

-- The Nation 2012-05-28

[whybother]

Maybe to improve young people's thinking and reasoning skills, they should be encouraged to ask questions.

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[lungmi]

Maybe to improve young people's thinking and reasoning skills, they should be encouraged to ask questions.

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This is the first step, understanding Ockham's razor, differential diagnosis, flow diagrams are the next.

I'm teaching Red Cross First Aid and basic medicine in a hilltribe school. I use a simple system of differential diagnosis and some flow diagrams (as pictures) based on the book "Where there is no doctor". The students and teachers learn to ask systematically. Role playing is part of the training.

Learning by asking and answering .....and doing.

[Thaddeus]

Maybe to improve young people's thinking and reasoning skills, they should be encouraged to ask questions.

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Quite, improving a child's reading skills only helps their reading skills, teaching them to analyse and question what they are reading is the best way forward.

[Payboy]

Thai youngsters have the lowest IQ at 98, which is less than the average IQ of 100 and at least 30 per cent lower than the norm," Suthasinee said.

The lowest IQ is less than the average. Wow thanks for explaining that.

And the average isn't the norm.

Edited May 28, 2012 by Payboy

[Scott]

These articles always confuse me. IQ, as a very general rule, has to do with the speed and ability to learn--at least when I was studying psychology. Education probably has little to do with IQ, although certain aspects of the tests are reliant on normal 'schooling.'

A varied, stimulating environment when children are very small probably is a greater asset than anything done in school. I do not know one child who has entered school and was rather 'slow' and then later turned out to be 'normal'. If they are slow, they usually stay slow. They may attain higher grades by studying harder.

Very young children need to crawl, play in the dirt (a sandbox with toys is a good idea), they need to put things in their mouth, they need to smell and touch. They need to learn many things on their own. They do not need to be carried 24/7. Spoon fed by an adult and then mesmerized in front of a television.

[lungmi]

Scott, the IQ is epistemological very weak. It's the chimera of half instructed interpreters for their limited aims..

The EQ ? What about this? Professional poker gamblers have a normal IQ but a very high EQ.

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Back to topic:

Learning starts with hearing and attempts to imitate.

Gesticulation (with or not cleared information) opens the way to doing. (Pantomime is my way to access children)

Reading pictures and give commentaries is the next step.

Role playing on the base of pictures the next.

Drawing their experience on a paper and discussion. (Tan Dhammapittaka and Gestaltpsychology)

Make pancake and spaghetti (in English), sit down and enjoy good food.

The Kids are ready to learn more.

Edited May 29, 2012 by lungmi