I love it when I am teaching the elementary kids and the high school kids get interested and stop what they are doing and watch. Today I was teaching my 5th grader the systems of the body and EVERYONE was participating. It is such an awesome feeling when you know that they have learned something. From first grade to eleventh grade ... they were captivated. I wish I could do that for all subjects. Now here is the problem... Do all get credit for science even though they all are not learning about the systems of the body? This is a question I ask myself daily.... and after an hour of verbal teaching, do they really need to write a paragraph to prove that they learned something? I remember in high school, I was not a good test taker. I had a teacher that would give me a verbal test and a written test and then average them... helped my grades a lot in history. So shall I do the same? I know that kids need to be able to write what they have learned, but when is it overkill? It is hard to figure out when too much is too much. Does my first grader REALLY need to do 30 worksheets of adding when she does not even use her fingers? NO.... but then I feel like she should be doing all of that... like I am cheating. She is starting to look at me like I am crazy or something and she is starting to get bored. OK ... it is decided... time to move on to subtraction. Thanks for helping me out.
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