Average children who are formally taught skills and information before they begin school may have an initial advantage over average children who have not received such instruction, but a child with average abilities is not going to become gifted as a result of
formal early instruction, and unless that child continues to receive advanced instruction, early advantages will be lost.
Not exact matches
Studies are confirming what
early childhood education experts have known for years...
Formal instruction can interfere with a preschooler's creativity and problem - solving skills.
The Waldorf program does not impose
formal reading
instruction too
early.
The children who had been introduced to
formal instruction in reading later than the others, however, were more motivated and spontaneous readers than those who had begun
early.
This means that
earlier training is better than later training, and skills continue to compound even after
formal instruction is interrupted.
We need to develop children's oral language skills
early and leave
formal classroom
instruction until children have the foundation skills they need to achieve.
Session 20: Sponsored Session: Connecting Data: The Power of Assessment - Driven
Instruction and Practice 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Audience - DACs, District Leaders,
Early Learning, Lead Teachers / Teachers, Principals, Student Support
Formal Presentation / Lecture
18 For a thorough history of the evolution of legal writing
instruction in law schools, see Romantz, supra note 5, at 127 — 36 (tracing the evolution of legal writing
instruction in law schools from the
early days of moot court exercises under Dean Langdell at Harvard Law School, through the ABA's
formal recognition of legal writing as a law school subject in 1947, and through the widespread adoption of legal writing programs in American law schools); Jeffrey D. Jackson & David R. Cleveland, Legal Writing: A History from the Colonial Era to the End of the Civil War, 19 Leg.
On the contrary, especially in the case of boys, subjection to
early formal instruction increases their tendency to distance themselves from the goals of schools and to drop out of it, either mentally or physically.»
Not so, says Lilian Katz, Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois: «While
early formal instruction may appear to show good test results at first, in the long term, in follow - up studies, such children have had no advantage.
Identifying at - risk children
early is crucial to providing
early intervention services that help close the gap for children before they begin
formal academic
instruction.