Can Intelligence be Taught?

We tend to think of intelligence as something innate and genetic. Is it? Our speaker Shannon Almquist will discuss how cognitive development happens in a child, and, surprise, it is not an automatic result of reaching a certain age. It is the outcome of intentional mediation of a child’s experience by an invested adult (parent, grandparent, teacher, or mentor). She will discuss what she has done and discovered in this process. How did we learn to think? What is the difference between knowledge and reason? What is IQ and how does it determine someone’s life? What is potential and can it be measured?

Shannon Almquist is a graduate of Indiana University with double majors in English and German. She has taught every age from 4th grade through adult, loving each grade for different reasons. (Locally she taught at Cheltenham High School). Later in her career she trained parents and teachers in cognitive rehabilitation, working around the world in places such as India, Denmark, Israel and Australia as well as in the U.S. Throughout this time she and her family lived in the various towns where her husband Roy was a pastor, and later the Bishop of the Lutheran Church in the Philadelphia area.

This program is a presentation of AAUW Valley Forge.

The program is FREE, everyone is welcome, and there will be snacks!
Do come to this thought-provoking presentation.

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