Explaining a rainbow makes it MORE beautiful!

[Fungus]

I'm a Master's in Pedagogy, and I hate the scientification of learning especially in younger years. I won't go into it, but it's robbing wonder of experience in exchange for oftentimes unnecessary or convoluted concepts children simply aren't capable of grasping yet.

I see a problem of having a specific pedagogy for a a group, based on for example age. School system are often optimal for say +/-1SD of the students. People have different learning styles and different developmental paths, this goes for kids as well. I think a individualized learning would be better.

I always hated generalisations as a student, you could tell the teachers pre-conception of what a x-year old student could possible grasp and understand. But my experience is they were off alot, and i see same issue with new generations. This is continued because it works for say +/-1SD - I think the feedback they get on group-level is to blame.

 

[Haruhiko]

I see a problem of having a specific pedagogy for a a group, based on for example age. School system are often optimal for say +/-1SD of the students. People have different learning styles and different developmental paths, this goes for kids as well. I think a individualized learning would be better.

I always hated generalisations as a student, you could tell the teachers pre-conception of what a x-year old student could possible grasp and understand. But my experience is they were off alot, and i see same issue with new generations. This is continued because it works for say +/-1SD - I think the feedback they get on group-level is to blame.

Yeah, usually one SD is within the scope of a teacher's ability to differentiate the lesson's instruction, but beyond that the teacher would design an ELP/ILP for that student. I remember when I was a teacher I had eight students on these plans. It was a lot of work.

Some adjustments were minimal but others were so extensive the plan was around 5000 words, for that student alone. They also had to be redrafted every three months.

It was simultaneously the most rewarding and exhausting time of my career.