On September 7th, PENGCHENG Academy was honored to invite the Asian children education expert & psychological counseling and moral education trainers, Dr. Zhang Jinqiang from Singaporean SICD to visit PENGCHENG Academy to start the first class of “How to Improve Cognitive Ability in Learning”, which is also deemed as the September training course at PENGCHENG Academy. Some of the PENGCHENG Group’s core management and related colleagues participated in this lesson.
Professor Zhang Jinqiang holds a Ph.D. in psychological counseling. He has worked in learning intelligence guidance and counseling of children and adolescents for more than 20 years. He is a consultant healer of CYLCC in Singapore, mastering FLI2 intelligent diagnostic assessment, registered clinical psychological counseling practitioner, and he is a professional guidance consultant of child and family & master psychological counselor and moral education trainer. He has traveled far to China, Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam to promote children's and adolescents' counseling, character education and other aspects of development. He has compiled a selection guide for morality and published in English, Chinese and Indonesian languages. Currently, he is developing parenting guidelines: "Concern about the Development of Children in the 21st Century". He has been interviewed by famous media such as the Straits Times (Singapore) and Channel NewsAsia in regard of children education. He had a lot of influence in the education sector in Singapore.
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Dr. Zhang is giving wonderful lesson
In the course of the lesson, Dr. Zhang introduced to the trainees that their individual learning intelligence consists of the abilities to learn in visual, auditory, reflective, tactile, and sensory aspects. There are four different stages of cognitive ability development, namely: the stage of sensory movement, the preparatory stage before operation, the stage of physical operation, and the stage of abstract thinking. Each person will always go through these four stages in his life. Each stage calls for different mental abilities. Entering a new stage and having new mental abilities can make people understand the world in a more sophisticated way. Dr. Zhang also mentioned that for the receiving of information and the processing of information content, each person's processing capability is formed with three dominant advantages: pattern graphics, symbolic symbols, and text semantics. In general, Asians’ average ability in these three areas reaches 6 points, 9 points, and 5 points (out of 10 points). The ability to enhance the three dominant advantages can be achieved through the professional sensory integration training. It can also be achieved by strengthening the daily learning of intelligent exercises such as increasing reading quantity, combing work plans, and admiring works of art.
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Trainees were all ears during the lesson.
Everyone's learning intelligence includes: the most basic learning intelligence (comprehension ability, memory ability, problem solving ability), application intelligence (evaluation ability, creative ability), reading intelligence (reading ability, reading preparation, reading concept), and Arithmetic/mathematical intelligence. In order to make the students further understand the above content, Professor Zhang guided the students to conduct "actual combat" and completed the "FLI2 Personal Learning Intelligence Test".
Trainees are focusing on completing the test.
Dr. Zhang is explaining the examples of the test.
As the saying goes, "Know the enemy and yourself make you prevail all the time”, this course, carried on in a theoretical + practical way, aims to help students to increase their self-awareness of individual learning ability so that they can improve in a more targeted way and therefore realize better working and living and harvesting rich life. At the end of the lesson, in the warm applause of all the trainees, the lesson has come to a perfect conclusion!
Group photo of Dr. Zhang & all the trainees