For Teachers, Parents and Chilren

You know pete,

Life is interesting when you are working at a for-profit school, because you will receive a great amount of training and resources, perhaps it was because there are available budgets allocated for research and development; especially when it comes to learning how to promote critical thinking framework or scaffolding young children to follow.

It is said that:

All Children are born with the gift for learning, with a natural curiousity and drive to find things out for themselves, and, as adults we know that these natural gifts need stimulating and nourishing both at home and at school if children are to be the best that they can be. 

I remember when I was watching the "Bruce Almighty" Movie, God (Morgan Freeman) said something that I felt it is good to be quoted from: "Parting your soup is not a miracle, Bruce, it's a magic trick. A single mom who's working two jobs, and still finds time to take her kid to soccer practice, that's a miracle. A teenager who says no to drugs and yes to an education, that's a miracle.  Children are indeed the greatest miracle in life, from their observing eyes, they could have drawn to dangerous things (sadly some do), but I somehow thanked God, that most of them chose to learn from the greater good. In fact, I am inspired the courage some mommies and daddies, guiding teachers, or any parental guardians, who was there to properly guide them.

Recent research worldwide shows us that intelligence is not a static commodity that we inherit as a fixed package: our intellectual capacity can be diminished or strengthened and decreased or increased by the experiences we have and the kind of teaching and mentoring we receive.

Perhaps it would be ideal for every teacher to be open to all kinds of teaching methodologies, for we cannot base and accept only one approach towards learning, and when all else fails then we blame students for not learning right, but sadly, we are the ones who limit ourselves to new changes.

There are teaching techniques and strategies we can perfect, professional understandings we need to have, practical skills we need to teach, kind of questions we need to ask, and general classroom approaches we need to adopt.

As we come out from our comfort zone, we develop new thinking skills, new approaches to enhance critical and logical thinking, perhaps towards a new international-minded viewpoint.

However, it is not enough just to increase children's knowledge base; they need to be using their knowledge to solve problems and pursue investigations and we can teach them the relevant skills to do this. 

Education has the simplest objectives, you give out the best, you spark their interest, mold their weakness and at the end you'll see them being the leaders of tomorrow.

PS: I wish you I could have go in-depth about this with you, it seems I can't squeeze the words out tonight. Maybe, a little rest would grant me the words later on.

Your friend,
Dave

Reference: Teaching Thinking Skills Across The Curriculum

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