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I homeschool my children, and I don't grade their work. Instead, I use the errors they make to guide my teaching; what they can't do successfully obviously need
by JasonFruit 5y ago
I homeschool my children, and I don't grade their work. Instead, I use the errors they make to guide my teaching; what they can't do successfully obviously needs more of my attention and theirs.
What's interesting is the difference that makes in what feels like an accomplishment to them. Whereas I would be proud, in the public schools, to have the highest test score, my kids are proudest when they manage to excel after failing. If they excel the first time around, their response is, "Well, okay, but that section was easy."
I think that's a more beneficial attitude to carry into their futures.
- 30367286 5y agoYou are you are absolutely right that this will be a more beneficial attitude to carry into their futures because it is exactly what has allowed me to succeed, but only after unlearning some terrible internalized anxiety about failure caused by being told I was smart. Please keep it up. I hope I run into your kids in the workplace and they are running circles around me with their productivity and goal setting.
- _-david-_ 5y agoI think this would be the best way to teach, but it doesn't seem practical with the class sizes in most school. I frequently had 40 people in my classes and I know other schools in my district had similar class sizes.
- JasonFruit 5y agoI completely agree. Classroom teaching is a far more difficult and limiting situation, and I don't mean to imply that what I can do with my three kids can be extended to a classroom of thirty in a school of hundreds — though in many ways I wish it could.