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Rock and a Hard Place
| Thu, 11-20-2003 - 10:45am |
There's something on this board that has been bothering me, and I hope I can articulate it.
| Thu, 11-20-2003 - 10:45am |
There's something on this board that has been bothering me, and I hope I can articulate it.
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When do you think such comparisons DO become meaningful? Elementary school? Junior high?
"I can be changed by what happens to me but I refuse to be reduced by it"
&nbs
I personally view that as one of the great educational falacies. The truth would be
*children will not learn if they are not ready.*
Whether or not the children go on to learn when they are ready, depends upon whether or not they are ever presented the marterial for which they are ready. And it also depends upon the nature of the material presented before the children were obviously ready, and the manner in which it was presented. Demonstration of a skill does not indicate readiness to learn. It indicates that at some time in the past the child was ready to learn. Skills are typically observably demonstrated after quite a bit of learning related to the skill as already taken place. As with the spoken word. The child is ready to learn about spoken language and to start working on the skills required to understand speech and produce speech, practically from birth. A child who is not exposed to spoken langugae until he is ready to demonstrate the skill, is not going to demonstrate the skill at that time. The little boy of which you speak was probably not ready to learn in Feb. He was most likely ready to learn in Sept. Which he did, and by Feb he was able to demonstrate skill. He may well have been behind because he was not presented with an opportunity to learn before he got to school. For all you know, he was ready to learn exactly the same things a year before getting to school. All you know is that he WAS ready when he got there. Not that he wasn't ready before that, and certainly not that he wasn't ready till Feb.
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