Subject: Creativity

Posted by Kathy Arizmendi on 10/12/2010
In Reply To:Creativity Posted by Richard Turnock on 10/10/2010

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On 10 Oct 2010, at 6:52 PM, Richard Turnock wrote:

> Teaching a student at any age how to detect and correct their own errors in any subject has more leverage than when the teacher has all the answers.

A friend with a junior high school student told me that when her daughter receives a paper back with a grade, she has the opportunity to take the comments and write a better paper for a better grade. And to take tests over as well. The school explained that the objective was for the student to learn the subject and to learn how to consciously apply themselves until they understood a skill or subject.

Moving on with a 75% understanding, means students are going forward with 75% of the knowledge they need to master the next study. Their experience of school can only become progressively harder and more painful as they are presented with more material that assumes they know what they have just proven they don't know. So they created a policy that allowed students to continue learning "old" material.

I find this brilliant. How better can a student learn how to do better except by doing better?

Sharon
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Sharon Villines

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