‘Children learn more quickly if the brightest are prevented from putting their hands up’
6th September 2010
Schoolchildren learn more quickly if the brightest and most confident are prevented from putting up their hands, according to a teaching expert.
Yeah, and the quickest thing they learn is that being bright, confident, and willing to put up your hand is punished rather than rewarded. Way to go, ‘education expert’.
Those who are less willing to answer teachers’ questions rapidly switch off when a minority dominate, according to Professor Dylan Wiliam, deputy director of the Institute of Education at London University.
Gee, when I was a kid, that just put the responsibility on the teacher to focus on the slower kids — a responsibility that they seemed adequate to handle. Guess teachers these days are made of lesser stuff.