Malkin Dare, the well-known Canadian Education reformer, has a very important Article on her site called “Ten Keys to Success: Fundamental Principles of Teaching.”
This is everything you want to know to run a school or classroom in the traditional way. It’s everything you need to know to fight the destructive methods that progressives favor (because they are obsessed with social engineering rather than academic pursuits).
But the article is over 3000 words and I didn't think enough people would read it thoroughly. So I asked Malkin Dare for permission to make a short version. She said: “Go for it.”
So now my condensed version (under 1000 words) is on Examiner.com, with links to the original and some related material. The new title is: “Ten Stratagies for Successful Teaching.”
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The problem was I edited the title as I was posting the article and that seemed to confuse Examiner’s search tools. So I later posted a link to the short version on FreeRepublic, but someone there has a prejudice against Examiner, which as you’ll see is really a fine site. So now I'm promoting this article a third time.
If everyone concerned about education would read this article, we would see some magical progress.
(I used a third title here because that increases the chance that people using Google will find it.)
Here, to whet your appetite, are the topic sentences for Malkin Dare's ten strategies:
1: Almost all students can learn
2. Almost anything can be learned
3. There are almost no circumstances under which students can’t learn
4. Basic skills should be taught before higher-order skills
5. Factual knowledge is important
6. Hard work must be encouraged
7. Lessons should be clear and precise
8. New concepts should be practiced until they have been completely mastered
9. New concepts should be taught in sequence
10. High student achievement is not dependent on lavish spending
Please pass this on to every teacher (and parent) you know.
These strategies are, by the way, the perfect antidote for every goofy idea contained in Common Core.
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Examiner link: http://www.examiner.com/article/ten-stratagies-for-successful-teaching?cid=db_articles
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This post first appeared on Education Improved -- We Can Dream, please read the originial post: here
