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> During that time the kids lose some of what they learned the previous year Shouldn't we train teachers and devise lessons that actually give lasting knowledg
by prodigal_erik 17y ago
> During that time the kids lose some of what they learned the previous year
Shouldn't we train teachers and devise lessons that actually give lasting knowledge? To me anything less seems like a waste of everyone's time. Shorter breaks only delay the problem, because eventually the kids are going to graduate, which is the longest break of all.
- ktsmith 17y agoLoss is typically attributed to not using their newly learned skills. Teachers are constantly being bombarded with new ways to teach things, and new ways to focus on retention and comprehension. Since this has been a problem for decades it's logical to deduce that the teaching methods aren't the problem and the break is. For adults it might not be that big of a deal to lose the specifics learned in school as hopefully the ability to learn and tools for learning have stuck. When you are trying to immediately build on a specific set of skills it can be a real hindrance to have to reteach things that the student should already know, but has lost because they didn't use it for 10 weeks. This may not even be that big of a problem for older students, but at the grade school level we are wasting the kids time by having to reteach things.