Give your child the best chance
WHEN you are the remedial therapist among a group of moms, somehow you are expected to give good advice.
One of the questions was which school would best suit “their” child? My children are happy where they are, but not every child is suited to that form of schooling.
In an earlier article, I explained the differences as well as the pros and cons of private and public schooling. Nowadays, we are not merely faced with what “type” of school to send our children to but what “style” of learning they use.
In my area alone, we have an array of private schools, which use different curricula. We have one still making use of the CAPS curriculum, whereby if you learn all your work to perfection, you will sail through with flying colours.
The Independent Examinations Board is more difficult. Here, knowing your work is not going to pass you, unless you understand it and apply it correctly. Parents, they are not trying to catch you out, they are preparing your child for tertiary studies and the big wide world.
You want your child to learn? You need to accommodate them in a way that excites them.
Our children are born into the digital era. If we want them to survive and strive for excellence in it, we need to understand by venturing into it too. Understanding the philosophies around this new approach to learning 1. Reggio-Emilio 2. Socratic 3. Phenomenon. This approach is in the pre primary sector of a child’s schooling.
The idea with this form of learning is to make it learner centred. The children guide their own learning through interpersonal relationships and experiences and communication with the environment around them. The teacher is merely the observer, the mentor and the guider.
If you have any more questions relating to this, please do not hesitate to contact me at leekoetser@gmail.com (Lee Koetser, remedial therapist and parenting expert). BILL Gates is rallying behind school quality in developing nations with a push for more assessment data, a new initiative that links the Microsoft co-founder’s signature US education priorities with his more prominent global philanthropy work.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation issued its latest “Goalkeepers” report on Tuesday, urging for more comparable student assessment data worldwide and help getting girls through their schooling.
This marks new intertwining priorities for Gates’s domestic and international work as it focuses on global education quality, while also broadening its US agenda to look at overarching poverty issues.
In June, Gates announced a new “global education learning” initiative, committing $68million (R995m) over the next four years to help improve primary and secondary education in India and African countries.
| AP African News Agency (ANA)