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Article #54576Re: Grade retention - the new term for flunking
From: Richard Bonner
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 14:52
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 14:52
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Best (1234@5678.com) wrote: > "Richard Bonner" <ak621@chebucto.ns.ca> wrote: > > *** I liked history (except for ancient history), but I thought it was > > taught backwards. They should have started with today and gone in reverse: > > > > We are here. Why? > > "Well, your ancestors came here because..." > > > > Why? > > "Well, these people from one place and those people from another..." > > > > Why? > > "Well, before that, this king..." > > > > Why? > > "Well this war caused a famine that..." > > > > I think that is a much more logical and interesting way of teaching > > history because it relates present situations with those of the recent > > past, and those in turn with the past before them, and so on. > > > > Richard > *Great idea. And I find that constantly prying into something by asking the > question "why?" is a great way of solving problems. *** I agree. It's my belief that when students ask "why?", they are interested. It is in the best interest of that student to answer that "why" and hopefully generate another "why" to continue the learning. Richard
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X-Google-Thread: 48560ea9d0,e52524138aa1bad X-Google-Attributes: gid48560ea9d0,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!tr22g12.aset.psu.edu!newsflash.concordia.ca!News.Dal.Ca!halifax!ak621 From: ak621@chebucto.ns.ca (Richard Bonner) Newsgroups: hfx.general Subject: Re: Grade retention - the new term for flunking Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 14:52:15 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Chebucto Community Net Lines: 34 Message-ID: <iiefev$flc$2@Kil-nws-1.UCIS.Dal.Ca> References: <8635214c-cda1-4770-8d04-1ed5a0104101@f35g2000vbl.googlegroups.com> <4d374769$0$8869$9a566e8b@news.aliant.net> <4d383d1e$0$8869$9a566e8b@news.aliant.net> <u8udnQUPQadu1KXQnZ2dnUVZ_jadnZ2d@giganews.com> <4d38509c$0$7762$9a566e8b@news.aliant.net> <ihpi3r$f3h$5@Kil-nws-1.UCIS.Dal.Ca> <4d407957$0$9342$9a566e8b@news.aliant.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: chebucto.ns.ca X-Trace: Kil-nws-1.UCIS.Dal.Ca 1296744735 16044 192.75.95.75 (3 Feb 2011 14:52:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: postmaster@dal.ca NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 14:52:15 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]