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in response to angela and epeck: if teachers...

 

.... perhaps don't need to be the scientists, the who, in the educational equation, needs to be? I agree that teacher's are often "made" without this knowledge, rather a basic understanding of diverse learners and thinkers.  

what if, perhaps, the STUDENTS were the scientists? perhaps a greater understanding of how our minds work, how we perceive information, and the diversity of ways that we are capable of learning would inspire kids are a young age to be involved with school, and discourage feeling of inferiority in the classroom. with a greater understanding and internalization of this fact, that we are all constantly students of the world, and that by just observing and participating our brains are literally growing, taking in information and exercising, inclusion in educational settings that often are stress inducing would be more rewarding. 

i remember being “left behind” in school, as other kids learned their multiplication tables earlier the i, and i was subjected to what was then highly embarrassing ridicule. (my father, in the end, had to write the answers to multiplication facts on my arm during at-home study sessions so that i would remember!) this memory made me hate math ever since... however if it had been explained to me that my brain just worked differently, not necessarily ineffectively, i may have been able to see that the skills that i learned in more "creative" subjects, where i excelled, were also applicable to maths and sciences. 

Maybe the point is for US  to understand how OUR brains work, and not leave it up to the teachers to totally adjust the way the classroom works, just how WE work inside the classroom.

 

 

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