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| Topic Started: Oct 17 2008, 10:29 AM (144 Views) | |
| IlikeLIvonia | Oct 17 2008, 10:29 AM Post #1 |
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Practice Makes Perfect! To commit facts, concepts, or a skill to memory, we must overlearn so that it becomes automatic and not forgotten over time. How does this apply to academics, such as mathematics or reading? Certain skills are prerequisite to learning others, so it's important to overlearn those skills to automaticity to faciliatate the learning of higher-level skills. For example, in math we need to understand the concept of number before we can understand the process and learn how to add or subtract numbers. In reading, we need to be able to read or decode the words and understand the structure of written language in order to comprehend what the passage is all about. When these important sub-skills become automatic, then it frees up space in our brains, what cognitive scientists call working memory, to tackle higher level skills, suh as number computations and reading comprehension. Automaticity allows us to become skillful in mental tasks---to use our mental processes to learn new facts, concepts, or skills. How do these skills become automatic? Through practice! Research tells us that overlearning requires consistent, sustained practice; practice that is past the point of mastery. To be successful in really acquiring knowledge and developing skill, we need to practice so that what we have learned is committed to memory and becomes automatic. In other words, in has become a habit(i.e. drill and kill). Donna McGhie-Richmond, Ph. D. Everyday Math accomplishes this goal by handing your child a calculator. |
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| BoaterDan | Oct 21 2008, 03:11 PM Post #2 |
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Now, you know that "well meaning, but misguided" PhD can't possibly offer anything useful to our very own Ms. Abler because she's not from around these parts and doesn't have direct knowledge of our specific case.
Edited by BoaterDan, Oct 21 2008, 03:12 PM.
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| LPS Reformer | Feb 7 2009, 07:07 PM Post #3 |
The schools exist to educate, not employ.
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Didn't Abler step dow, and go back into the classroom? |
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