While we try to teach our children all about life,
Our children teach us what life is all about.
~Angela Schwindt
Friday, June 24, 2011
Friday, June 10, 2011
Testing for Intelligence?
Environment is a factor that I feel should be taking in consideration when assessing children. Sometime children may be identified as being a slow learner. When in fact this is not the case, they are merely products of their environment. They could possibly have parents who are not educated and therefore sees no need to educate them. Sadly many people still today feel that they made without education whatever and simply feel like it isn’t necessary. I know a little boy who has exceptional potential he has being labeled a slow. He is a grade or so behind. However after talking with some of his teacher and his parents we found he was put in a situation to be slow. Over the years his parents fail to make sure he attended school regularly. Meaning if it was raining, cold and too hot that day he didn’t come to school. Not mention if they had being up all night partying or something. In this situation this child had the physical and mental capability to learn he just wasn’t given the opportunity because his parent did not feel it necessary. Eventually, this child was removed from his parents for child neglect but the damage was already done. I wish someone would have identified his situation sooner which would have given him a better opportunity in life. I became in contact with this young man because I was the officer that responded to his residence to investigate child abuse.
Japanese Concept of Education and Tests
According to a report by the U.S. Department of Education: "Japanese society is education-minded to an extraordinary degree. Success in formal education is considered largely synonymous with success in life and is, for most students, almost the only path to social and economic status.” In Japan Tokyo
References:
Hays, J. (2009). Education system in Japan
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