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Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Case for $320,000 Kindergarten Teachers

Good article to read:

Case for $320,000 Kindergarten Teachers - NY Times

Its puzzled me on why Early Education has not had more of an impact on kids. On why does the impact fade after a couple of years academically. Perhaps the right measurements were not being made. The headache is establishing a causal relationship. Correlations does not equal causation.

In other words there may be other reasons that kids with early education go to college. Perhaps its because parents who believe in early education are more likely to have their kids also go to college.

Personally, I am in favor of early education with a child. I view them as a Tabula Rosa and the question is what are you going to teach them? Or what are you going to let them learn. Even if you make no decision, you have still made a decision on your child's education.

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Thursday, July 8, 2010

Kids Learning Chinese Product Suggestions

Some recommendations I just made to a customer for their child, age 4:

I like My First Chinese Words with 36 books and CD. It's a good way to learn Chinese through stories.You will need to decide if you are going to teach simplified or traditional.

For basic Chinese the Little Pim series does a good job

Touch Audio Pen and Books - They only come in simplified, but I like the concept.I am a big fan of Learning through music with kids singing songs as a way to learn Mandarin

These are very good: Practical Chinese Coloring/Activity Book, Simplified

Page on Chinese Curriculums for ages 3 to 5

I like Better Chinese's My First Chinese Words since it's story based

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Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Little Pim in Chinese

A person was asking which product was right for their kid and that got me thinking about Little Pim. Award Winning program that is so nicely done for babies, toddlers, and kids. And now Volume 4, 5, 6 is available!

Little Pim: Playtime, 3-Pack Bundle (Vol. 4,5,6), Learning Chinese for Babies, toddlers and preschoolers DVD

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Wednesday, May 19, 2010

All About Little Pim from Julia Pimsleur Levine

The Little Pim Videos numbers 4, 5, 6 are here.

The 3 newest Little Pim DVD titles are:
On a related note, I saw this video about the creator of Little Pim and would like to share it with you.

Julia Pimsleur Levine (yes, she is the daughter of THE Paul Pimsleur!), talks about how this series can help babies learn to be bilingual. 

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Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Toddlers Learning Chinese

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Chinese for toddlers

Chinese for toddlers - Which product should you choose?

Little Pim: Playtime, 3-Pack Bundle, Learning Chinese for Babies, toddlers, and preschoolers is a very popular product for Teaching Chinese to Toddlers.

Little Pim uses animation and real kids to introduce words and phrases for everyday activities and is award winning. It was developed by the daughter of Paul Pimsleur, Julia Pimsleur Levine. Paul Pimsler developed a method of quickly Learning Foreign Languages based on the four principles of anticipation, graduated interval recall, core vocabulary, and organic learning. A great quote about the pimleur method on how it uses behavioral principles—gradual shaping of behavior, immediate reinforcement of response, stimulus (cue) control of the verbal response, systematically interlarding new and old material, focusing on the most common words in a language, and limiting the amount of new material to bite size portions—for its effectiveness.

What has been done with Little Pim is refining the technique and using it with children. The author, Julia Pimsleur Levine wanted to teach her children French, but found no videos on the market that met her high standards. Now she was also a film maker, bilingual teacher, and a Mother which meant she had all the key skills to produce her own series of high quality video's, which Little Pim is an example of this.

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