"If you want your children to be intelligent, read then fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales." Albert Einstein
Went to a school play tonight, Into the Woods. Fairy Tales!!!!
Friday, April 20, 2012
Friday, April 6, 2012
Testing for Intelligence
For all of us to do our best we have to know our strengths and our weakness, and unfortunately there has a be a way to measure what they are. In the real world we need math and science and the ability to read just to get by. So it is essential to learn those subjects. We have to see a child as a whole so we must know them as a whole. I don't think we need to go any further into who a child is. If we can't test children not without imposing ourselves on them, if we go farther it will just get worse. Culture really can play a part in how a child test and then maybe make them feel less about who they are. Maybe we should find a way to give test to children while they listen to music in the background. For me it helps me to process. If we could find a way to test children without stressing them out during class and while they are taking test perhaps they can do better.
I read a few articles on Brazil and how they test their children. Brazil uses the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). This test is given once every three years, and test for mathematics, science, and reading. They test 15 year old students for functional skills that students have acquired as they near the end of compulsory school looking to see if a student can construct, extend and reflect on the meaning of what they have read. In the past a real focus was given to the reading levels. This year of 2012 the focus will also be on mathematics literacy and assess reading literacy as well as computer-based knowledge and financial literacy. Can you image living in a country were 3out of 5 adults were functionally illiterate and more than 1 in 10 totally illiterate? In 2000 that is were Brazil was.The president at that time Fernando H. Cardoso made available funding to pay for poor families to keep their children in school and mandated a minimum per-pupil spending and teacher salary. The country has gone from disastrous to very bad. This testing does include the children from well to do families ( they tested the same as other children). Investing in the teacher who were taught in the philosophy of education not the subject matter or teaching skills. The laws for education includes develop the human personality, master science and technological resources and expanding cultural heritage, condemning and unequal treatment resulting from philosophical, political or religious belief, as well as social classes or racial prejudices.
The testing is done by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development they test 65 countries. Uses the s-spelling of organization because it is not a member of the United Nations System.
Resources:
Berger,K. S. (2009). the developing person through childhood (5th ed.). new York, NY: Worth Publishers.
Brazilian Education. www.un.int/brazil/brasil/brazil-education
The Economist( December 2010,9). No longer bottom of the class. Retrieved from http://www.economist.com/node/17679798
Program for International Student Assessment(PISA)- National Center for Education Statistics Retrieved from nces.ed.gov/surveys/pisa/
I read a few articles on Brazil and how they test their children. Brazil uses the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). This test is given once every three years, and test for mathematics, science, and reading. They test 15 year old students for functional skills that students have acquired as they near the end of compulsory school looking to see if a student can construct, extend and reflect on the meaning of what they have read. In the past a real focus was given to the reading levels. This year of 2012 the focus will also be on mathematics literacy and assess reading literacy as well as computer-based knowledge and financial literacy. Can you image living in a country were 3out of 5 adults were functionally illiterate and more than 1 in 10 totally illiterate? In 2000 that is were Brazil was.The president at that time Fernando H. Cardoso made available funding to pay for poor families to keep their children in school and mandated a minimum per-pupil spending and teacher salary. The country has gone from disastrous to very bad. This testing does include the children from well to do families ( they tested the same as other children). Investing in the teacher who were taught in the philosophy of education not the subject matter or teaching skills. The laws for education includes develop the human personality, master science and technological resources and expanding cultural heritage, condemning and unequal treatment resulting from philosophical, political or religious belief, as well as social classes or racial prejudices.
The testing is done by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development they test 65 countries. Uses the s-spelling of organization because it is not a member of the United Nations System.
Resources:
Berger,K. S. (2009). the developing person through childhood (5th ed.). new York, NY: Worth Publishers.
Brazilian Education. www.un.int/brazil/brasil/brazil-education
The Economist( December 2010,9). No longer bottom of the class. Retrieved from http://www.economist.com/node/17679798
Program for International Student Assessment(PISA)- National Center for Education Statistics Retrieved from nces.ed.gov/surveys/pisa/
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