Our first week back to the books has been a whirlwind! We are experiencing a new kind of schooling that has us all (especially mom) going at breakneck speeds. I've composed several blog posts in my head as we have gone through this exciting week of new methods and discoveries, but I've just been WAY too busy to type any of them out. I promise to spend some time next week sharing our new methods, but at this point, I already feel some changes in our new plan.
I have made a discovery, and I'm rather ashamed to admit that it has taken this long for me to have one of those gestalt "aha" moments. BOTH of my girls are GIFTED VISUAL/SPATIAL LEARNERS. One would think with a background in education, I would have picked up on this sooner, but I have fallen into the American education pedagogy trap of thinking that if I just kept teaching in all the "normal" ways, my children would eventually buckle down and achieve at the level I know them to be capable of. Good heavens!
My husband was good enough to share his DNA with his progeny without explaining fully to me the way his brain works. I always knew he had amazing intellectual ability with some cute little "quirks." He has passed these "quirks" onto our girls, and I am scrambling to keep up. We have been homeschooling for three and a half years now, and I'm just now beginning to fully understand the best way to teach these amazing children of ours.
We have an amazing year ahead of us - one that is sure to be full of discovery and learning. Any information on visual/spatial learning and how to best teach to their intellectual capabilities is now being sought out and devoured with an unequaled passion. This is going to be quite a ride!
Friday, August 1, 2008
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I'm glad you've learned about v/s styles as it makes a huge difference in understanding how to teach children who work in that way. I look forward to reading more about your plans and thoughts, and how you have come to terms with having to approach so many things upside down!
Upside down indeed, Patience. I've got so much to learn while trying to keep up with my eight year old's demands for "more, more, more!" It is a pleasure, though to find an answer that seems to fit. Now I just have to figure out how to introduce higher math without insisting on rote memorization of basic facts. That concept still seems impossible to my sequential brain.
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