tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15932919.post8726511060123892575..comments2024-03-15T23:26:26.319-07:00Comments on Teacher Tom: Direct Instruction From A Great Horned OwlTeacher Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14606781724784785338noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15932919.post-52743033615974812682011-12-26T04:26:49.747-08:002011-12-26T04:26:49.747-08:00Fantastic post...totally agree with using non-dire...Fantastic post...totally agree with using non-direct methods. For anyone who hasn't come across the theory sitting behind this, it's called 'Constructivism'. It's learning by constructing your own understanding, rather than being told. We all learn this way throughout life, and children often learn 'despite' what they are told by their teachers!<br /><br />The best analogy I have come across is to give children an understanding of the map of the area they are learning in (e.g. let them play and explore with groups of objects with the aim of adding them together), rather than giving them a satnav to get there (teaching them a method for addition). That way, if the satnav fails they have a good idea of how to get where they are going!Mehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10173540044507564620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15932919.post-25430032919022863182011-12-20T03:46:16.251-08:002011-12-20T03:46:16.251-08:00Hi Tom
Were the children shown how to hear like a...Hi Tom<br /><br />Were the children shown how to hear like an owl? If you cup your hands and put them behind your ears then all the sound in front of you becomes magnified. It's so simple and amazing!<br /><br />Twit-to-whoo<br />JulietJuliet Robertsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07035975039896986525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15932919.post-3038363729141912912011-12-19T13:27:20.298-08:002011-12-19T13:27:20.298-08:00I've been reading along for a while and just w...I've been reading along for a while and just wanted to thank you for posting. This part, "sometimes a child's ability to cooperate by sitting and facing forward is mistaken for learning" is pretty much the reason we have launched merrily into homeschooling this year. My very full-body experiential (but not really rough-and-tumble) 5 year old boy had a horrible time in a super structured preschool last year. At pick-up he was always exhausted, eyes glazed over and cranky in a defeated kind of way. They actually seemed to encourage the other kids teasing him into "obeying" which is worlds away from working as a team, etc. I'm sure you hear about these situations all the time. That mention you made the other day of the boy being bullied sounded eerily similar, though in our case it didn't get that far before we quit. I think we were probably just lucky there wasn't one leader among the (teacher sanctioned) nasty group. <br /><br />Anyway, thanks for posting this stuff as I love to gather up concepts for my kids and test them out at home. As a private violin teacher, I've found that play-based and montessori type kids have a better time when it comes to figuring out how to teach themselves something (i.e. to practice).Mimi Bohemehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12366469697860406131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15932919.post-8386620199287008442011-12-19T10:21:23.910-08:002011-12-19T10:21:23.910-08:00I wish I could go back to preschool and enroll mys...I wish I could go back to preschool and enroll myself at Woodland Park.marcie jan bronsteinhttp://www.inthisplayground.comnoreply@blogger.com