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Home : 2006 : Nov : 24
The idea is not that kids sit around watching TV all the time, but that kids learn best what they have an interest in learning. The best scenarios have kids choosing to spend a significant time learning one subject or spreading their learning to various subjects, but that in the end, they have a balanced education. That is, they might spend two months studying just algebra, then move on to French, then move on to Computer Design. Or they might want to do just a little of each. For real unschooling to take place, the parent would at least need to expose their kids to various topics, and provide lots of study materials and support, particularly at first, until the student could navigate the various choices available to him and access the materials on his/her own. The thought is that the human child wants to learn and will learn what he needs when given a menu of topics to choose from. I don't think that its a reflection on public school and us as educators at all. As teachers, we must admit that we can't do it all for all kids all the time. I have high level achievers that could probably move on, but I can only enrich so much. I have low level achievers that need more time on certain skills, but I gotta move on, because state testing is coming, ready or not. I'd love to spend one-on-one time with lots of my kids, because they would improve so fast, but I don't have time in the day to do as much of that as I would like. We will all admit that the smaller the class size, the easier it is to meet the needs of our students. What's smaller than a class size of one or two?
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