Sentences with phrase «formal early instruction»

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.

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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.
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