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Pam
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Re: As goes reading education, so goes math education
Posted:
Jun 7, 2010 9:43 AM
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Posted: Jun 6, 2010 11:39 AM by Robert:
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> 11. Enable students to form 'peer groups' for
> learning [Chandy's rewording of a response of Pam's]
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> What does "enable" mean? Do you mean "allow"? Or do
> you mean "force"? Obviously you can't disallow such a
> thing, nor force it either. If you take 10 and 11
> together then this would be saying "Allow students to
> work in groups or alone, as they prefer and as they
> choose." No problem with that, and in most cases
> (when the school thing is working at all) this occurs
> naturally.
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> 12. Enable students to teach others [another rewording]
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> These are students, not teachers. Again, do you mean
> "allow" or do you mean "force"? Students are not
> mature and this can be an enormously frustrating task
> for them, as it can be for the adult teacher as well.
>
Chandy's rewording distorted my original meaning and added eduspeak that could lead to even more distorted interpretations. But, no matter.
> And if I had a nickle for every time someone used the
> "Einstein" anctedote. Even I have used it before when
> a friend was describing their son's reading issue. It
> is soothing and offers hope. But obviously of zero
> statistical importance.
I have merely been trying to put faces on your numbers, Robert. Einstein was exceptional, but he was not unusual in being a good learner and slower processor. The two are only loosely correlated, and more because fast processors are rewarded in our schools, and slow processors are punished. Maybe not as blatantly as Einstein was, with whacks on the hands, but more insidiously.
There is a video along these lines, that I wish every teacher was required to watch:
http://www.amazon.com/Difficult-This-City-Workshop-Understanding/dp/B000KT0UJC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1275913191&sr=8-1
Pam
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