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I think the real test of learning something is being able to teach it to others. I used to volunteer teaching after-school middle school classes with an organi
by dangrover 18y ago
I think the real test of learning something is being able to teach it to others.
I used to volunteer teaching after-school middle school classes with an organization called Citizen Schools and one big part of their methodology was trying to get kids to demonstrate their knowledge and pass it on to others in the end of whatever lesson they were doing.
- gruseom 18y agoAbsolutely, to teach something doesn't only test your mastery of a subject, it helps reinforce it. I've noticed that in the case of the older child, it reinforces their identity as "someone who knows about X", which feeds back into their own further study of X. It also subtly evokes responsible behavior from the older child simply by putting them in a responsible position, and harnesses the younger child's tendency to look up to older kids in service of their learning. Seems like the kind of thing we ought to do more of.