Originally Posted by
WiccanLiberal
The Joyful, Illiterate Kindergartners of Finland
http://www.theatlantic.com/education...inland/408325/
Fascinating article about how kindergarten prepares kids (or not). Maybe there are a few lessons to take away.
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Throughout Finland, kindergarten teachers and parents meet during the fall to make an individualized learning plan, shaped by each child’s interests and levels of readiness, which could include the goal of learning how to read. For Finnish kindergartners who seem primed for reading instruction, Holappa told me it’s still possible to teach them in a playful manner. "
Yes I know much smaller population etc but if it's what benefits the kids, can we see the way to adapting it?
I was a kindergarten drop out. All we did was play. Now it's a requirement and we STILL have the dumbest kids in our history. We used to have to do the work. Now it's send the kids home with something for the parent to do.
What are we really teaching them? Mommy and Daddy can do it for you.
I used to be stoned off my butt, eating Chips Ahoys with a big glass of milk, Tom n Jerry on the tube and doing my own homework. And it ain't about me. We ALL did that. Now they need a computer and parental assistance. I flat out told my daughter's second grade teacher that I passed second grade in 1967 and didn't need a review.
“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” Edumnd Burke