Child Study is the examination of individual differences in children and their contexts. Using research in the cognitive, developmental and educational sciences, this course will help you to reason about children and the optimization of their trajectories. The course uses both research and experience of children in classrooms to build an integrated schema for your practice. The following core developmental principles are found in all sections: the cognitive foundations for learning, environmental support and instructional opportunities, proximal and distal ecological influences on learning (e.g., relationships, social disadvantage and discrimination, culture and ethnicity), and the role of science in effective teaching.

The course is delivered in four, six week blocks as follows:

• The Ecology of Development
• Evaluation of Evidence in Education
• Cognitive Foundations of Theory of Mind and Scientific Reasoning

· The Teaching and Learning of Mathematics