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Why You Shouldn't Say It's Easy When Teaching

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Re: Why You Shouldn't Say It's Easy When Teaching

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Post by danielweber » Mon, Apr 28, 2014, 1:52 PM UTC

judk wrote: post #59

danielweber wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What I've learned with my kids: it depends on the person. Last I heard, the best approach is supposed to be telling kids they got the right answer because they are working hard. Well, I've had that one backfire. "This is too hard!!!!"

Please provide a citation. Yo are misremembering.

One of a zillion google links: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/lifestyle/2012/02/why-you-should...

Re: Why You Shouldn't Say It's Easy When Teaching

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Post by xarien » Tue, Apr 29, 2014, 5:03 PM UTC

tikhonj wrote: post #13

It's funny, because I have completely the opposite view: stop telling people stuff is difficult! If people think what they're about to learn is supposed to be "hard", they're going to give up faster and be intellectually lazy. "Oh, I just can't figure it out because it's hard ." I've found this to be particularly important with things that are fundamentally simple but very abstract. You can teach people quite a bit o…

When I read the post, I had the exact same thought you just wrote (experiencing too much of this first hand with my eldest boy atm). Took the words right out of my mouth.

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