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Posted by BrazenTeacher • 3/12/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: children, education, kids, school, Students, teaching
Ask one thousand people what the most important thing(s) to teach a child is/are- you will get roughly one thousand different answers.
It seems right now that society values academia, and intellect regarding math, sciences and technology. What are the most important things to teach to kids?
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positive parenting.-
Here here :-) Some think Public Schools are now the parents
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Also, know your kids. I had an experience where the teacher though my son said the "f" word and after I grilled him and the story never changed even after a week, he insists he said fox. The teacher apologized.
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Yes, I have made errors like that too. It's good to "know your kids"
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Be a good citizen that contributes to society-
Indeed.
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Start young and focus on quality playtime. Spend less time worrying about what you teach. Spend more time worrying about attention span. Turn off the tv and electronic distractions and allow a child to thoroughly explore the possibilities one activity at a time. Kids will fall into an activity and give it their full creative attention if we let them. That's a great learning habit, one that builds a child's confidence and trust in her own ability to arrange and determine meaning. In the long run, pursuing quality playtime as a habit--a lifestyle--will benefit a child anytime it might prove useful to be her own source of motivation, because she’s inherently curious, patient, committed and capable.-
You just described Montessori Schooling... are you familiar?
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More or less--we didn't send our son to a Montessori school. That's just the environment we created in our home. Very nice Brazen Luther King article, by the way.
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Thank you for visiting! I get so excited when new people visit!
There is a movement parallel to homeschooling called the 'unschooling movement.' It sounds like what you do with you son at home
www.johmann.net/commentary/unschooling.html
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Whipping and flogging til they learn.
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Oh lord... Wonderful
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I was brought up that way ...
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Critical thinking skills.-
YES. Although everyone in power over children from parents to CEO's/ Government lose out in the short term if kids can truly think critically.
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i think the most important thing is to encourage kids to develop their own interests and enable them to realize their own true abilities. they should be taught to build a high level of self-awareness that will help them to cope with many of the challenges (social and psychological) that they may face at different stages of life. -
Teach them showing the picture. It will grab by them easily and remembered by them -
An old poem...with a continuing message worth repeating.
The Teacher
Lord, who am I to teach the way
To little children day by day
So prone myself to go astray?
I teach them Knowledge, but I know
How faint they flicker, and how low
The candles of my knowledge glow.
I teach them Power to will and do,
But only now to learn anew
My own great weakness through and through.
I teach them Love for all mankind
And all God's creatures; but I find
My love comes lagging still behind.
Lord, if their guide I still must be,
O let the little children see
The teacher leaning hard on thee!
By: Lesley Pinckney Hill. Originally published in January 1911 in The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races. Reprinted in 1999 on P. 29 in Sondra Kathryn Wilson,ed.:The Crisis Reader: Stories, Poetry, and Essays from the N.A.A.C.P.'S Crisis Magazine. -
I believe the children are our are future, teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside. -
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If you teach a child love, respect (including self respect), and the desire to explore and learn - everything else will follow suit.-
Give them a sense of pride to make it easier, let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be everybody searching for a hero
People need someone to look up to I never found anyone who fulfil my needs a lonely place to be So I learned to depend on me. -
If you teach a child love, respect (including self respect), and the desire to explore and learn - everything else will follow suit.
Yes, but that teaching has to happen at home. You can't teach it in the classroom (except for maybe rare instances). -
Hush Anin! Damn aardvark, now that song is stuck in my head
Sati - I thought that was what the original question was? Teaching in general, not in schools?
Ah well, in schools teaching needs to focus on critical thinking, problem solving, exploration, arts/humanities, and facts/science, and history. -
I decided long ago, never to walk in anyone's shadows if I fail, if I succeed at least I'll live as I believe no matter what they take from me they can't take away my dignity because the greatest love of all is happening to me.
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Damn you anin! what an evil thing to get in everyone's head!
*tries to think of something to remedy Whitney*
SCHOOL'S OUT FOR SUMMER! SCHOOL'S OUT FOREVER!
(I know apostrophe's aren't very rock but I couldn't not) -
What do you mean Whitney??? I was just giving my views on teaching children.What has a museum of modern art got to with the correct way to educate your children?
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damnit...it's in my head again! evil evil!
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Teaching children, empathy, kindess, sharing and getting along with people are very important attributes. A child can be gifted, but if they do not have people skills, or compassion towards others, how far are they going to get in life? -
Relationships; build great relationships and all else will follow.
If you are interested in this topic then please help me build on the list of Traits of a Great Teacher here TwitPWR.com/bMn/
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