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By rote learning people think students are going to be practicing ad nauseam and that is going to be the preferred approach to teaching our students.
Is it totally unpredictable and therefore has to be mastered
by rote learning (look - cover - write - check) and by repeated writing?
Not exact matches
When I try to help my grandkids with their homework I try to make it as plain as possible — unless I want them to engage their brains and think, and I'm more interested in them
learning to think than in
learning «correct» answers
by rote.
Generations of Catholics, including priests,
learned [scholasticism] almost
by rote, often ending with a set of abstract propositions which they could not easily relate to the world or to history.
Learning by rote is no more useful in Bible study than in other fields, and it is often the Bible's anomalous, even contradictory texts that lead us to deeper thought and strong faith.
Generations of Catholics, including priests,
learned it almost
by rote, often ending with a set of abstract propositions which they could not easily relate to the world or to history.
This people draw near with their mouth and honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men
learned by rote.
The opportunity to
learn from each other is lost and methods usually rejected
by good instructors — teacher - centered,
rote fact - regurgitation - become the norm.
There is no body of information that my kids have to
learn by rote, sectioned off
by age to be tested on.
I wanted them to have exposure to all kinds of stimulus and to be able to follow their interests rather than
learning by rote.
Cameron, ever the man of the people, appeared at a press conference the next day with an answer he seemed to have
learned by rote.
Learning by rote or
by play?
The system was still able to follow instructions for that room despite not having seen them before, says Kaplan, which suggests it is not just
learning by rote.
Beginning with counting and moving through topics such as multiplication and fractions, Arithmetic provides a nuanced understanding of working with numbers, gently connecting procedures that we once
learned by rote with intuitions long since muddled
by education.
School children
learning by rote do so in a collective singsong.
More emphasis on problem - solving, less on
rote learning, the argument went, would decrease the likelihood that students will be taken in
by questions like the following: «There are 26 sheep and 10 goats on a ship.
By the early 1830s, he says, math reformers were making one of their first stands, arguing that educators needed to move away from
rote learning, so they could better understand the meaning of math.
The Bishops who convened at the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore in 1884 determined to write a catechism for Catholic children — the famous Baltimore Catechism, which was a standard text in Catholic schools for the next 80 years, its questions and answers about the Church and God
learned,
by rote,
by millions of children, in a fashion that might put Muslim madrassas to shame — and then issued what today would be considered a terribly draconian and medieval (parochial?)
Students do math drills —
by rote — and spelling is
learned with games such as Hangman.
They move to a one - room schoolhouse, dress in period clothing, adopt old - fashioned names, and
learn the traditional way —
by rote or on a chalkboard.
In the digital age we live in, going back to
learning times tables
by rote seems like an archaic form of
learning, which is likely to be difficult for the already stretched teaching profession, so coming up with enjoyable paths of
learning for both the educator and the student is more than likely the best option.
«It's much better to grasp the fundamentals and have no boundaries at all, than
learn a fixed range of recipes
by rote.
True
learning is not about memorizing or
learning by rote.
When Bishop examined the effects of high - school exit exams, one traditional form of external accountability, on intrinsic motivation
by comparing whether students subjected to this approach engaged in less reading for pleasure or were more likely to associate
learning with
rote memorization, he found no evidence that accountability undermined natural curiosity and even found some evidence of the opposite.
It's All About the Content Content consumption in a connected environment is significantly different from content consumption in linear teaching, where the textbook was king and
learning was
by rote.
Believe it or not, you can teach skills, be explicit about them but also integrate and personalise
learning so children can think rather than
learn by rote and mindlessly repeat what they are told.
It is still based on
learning by rote despite endless studies proving it doesn't work.»
In 2007 they approved funding for the first public Waldorf methods high school, in the Sacramento Unified School District; and (3) Three key findings on urban public schools with Waldorf methods: (a) In their final year, the students in the study's four California case study public Waldorf - methods elementary schools match the top ten of peer sites on the 2006 California test scores and well outperform the average of their peers statewide; (b) According to teacher, administrator and mentor reports, they achieve these high test scores
by focusing on those new three R's — rather than on
rote learning and test prep — in a distinct fashion laid out
by the Waldorf model and (c) A key focus is on artistic
learning, not just for students but, more importantly perhaps, for the adults.
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A key reason that flipped teaching and
learning marries so well with the active classroom is that
by pushing some of the
rote instructional practice outside of, and prior to, class sessions, it frees up valuable face - to - face class time for applied
learning pursuits.
It seems that the strategy of memorization used
by Chinese students is not simply for
rote learning but an important method to achieve a deep understanding in which subject content is internalized and actively reflected upon (Watkins & Biggs, 1996, 2001).
Organized
by the
Learning Policy Institute (LPI), «Walking the Talk: Teacher Preparation for Deeper Learning» highlighted findings from a national study of seven teacher preparation programs that are organized in ways that align with deeper learning approaches — meaning less emphasis on rote learning and more on experiential, innovative, collaborative, and equity - focused p
Learning Policy Institute (LPI), «Walking the Talk: Teacher Preparation for Deeper
Learning» highlighted findings from a national study of seven teacher preparation programs that are organized in ways that align with deeper learning approaches — meaning less emphasis on rote learning and more on experiential, innovative, collaborative, and equity - focused p
Learning» highlighted findings from a national study of seven teacher preparation programs that are organized in ways that align with deeper
learning approaches — meaning less emphasis on rote learning and more on experiential, innovative, collaborative, and equity - focused p
learning approaches — meaning less emphasis on
rote learning and more on experiential, innovative, collaborative, and equity - focused p
learning and more on experiential, innovative, collaborative, and equity - focused pedagogy.
It distinguishes critical thinking skills from low - order
learning outcomes, such as those attained
by rote memorization.
The scrapping of national tests in science has also led to more enjoyable lessons - and less
learning by rote.
We are campaigning on high stakes testing, so that pupils
learn less
by rote, and more
by considering problems and challenges in real life situations — where they are required, also, to develop the skills that employers are crying out for — speaking and listening well; collaborating with each other well; using IT.
Learning by rote was the norm in my education, but now I believe most educators understand that critical thinking is much more important.
The policy aims to reduce
rote -
learning and textbook regurgitation
by testing «wider awareness, understanding and comprehension and higher order problem solving skills.»
We expect immediate results and hope
by learning various commands
by «
rote» - our puppys will understand.
In the blogosphere it descends into climate memes
learnt by rote at the feet of self appointed gate keepers.
So easy to throw around terms
learned by rote and not back them up with any hard data, isn't it?
Carter's confidence in his superficial understanding of the science is bolstered
by the memes
rote learned in the blogosphere — and he is offended when I spell this out.
An integral part of being a law student is absorbing large bodies of legal knowledge —
learning cases
by rote, being able to reel off relevant legislation and managing to spell obscure latin phrases all tend to form a significant part of law degrees.
Then there are those (few) things I know because I
learned them
by rote.
I like this first of all because the word itself is so strange — and then because it comes from a Latin declension for «this» that I was made to
learn by rote: hic, haec, hoc / hunc hanc hoc etc..
Rhyme and rhythm make strings easier to
learn by rote, something known forever, I'd guess — which is partly why I can still sing the words to all the stupid wonderful pop songs I heard on the car radio back when I was in highschool.
Soft skills can't be
learned by rote, and involve emotional intelligence and empathy, which often makes them more complicated to impart on a student.
• Skilled in the design of innovative and hands - on classroom instruction that builds upon national, state and global historical events • Demonstrated expertise in motivating students to move beyond
rote memorization
by building upon lessons
learnt in earlier classes • Documented success in assisting students in handling critical analysis of historical events • Well - versed in assessing student performance and designing remedial programs
And the training itself is as likely as not to diminish this cognitive function as it is to enhance it, because its practitioners
learn to deny their own flawed human cognitive synthesizing in order to substitute even worse
rote protocol under the pretext of neutral scientific investigation (i.e. «art», the bullshit excuse offered
by those who know it's not science.)