Progressive achievement
ACER’s evidence-driven Progressive Achievement approach helps educators around the world target teaching and improve learning.
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Developing bright minds from birth to adolescence
If you had to choose two facts to show how extensive brain development is between birth and 12 years, they might be these:
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90% of a child’s brain develops in the first 5 years of life.
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The connections in a 3-year-old’s brain are understood to number around 1000 trillion and reduce through the next 10 years to settle at around 500 trillion in adolescence.