Children learn best...
- When they feel comfortable
and secure.
- Through active manipulation of objects.
- When provided with experiences which involve the greatest number of senses.
- Through repeated and varied experience.
- Through those things which are important to them at the moment.
- When they have opportunities to fully explore and experiment.
- When learning activities are carefully sequenced to present appropriate
experiences one step at a time.
- When they experience individualized instruction, rather than being required
to move as a group from one learning objective to the next.
- When they experience both challenge and success.
- When they have opportunities to utilize play to translate experience into
understanding.
- When intellectual, physical or social challenge is introduced along the
following dimensions....
- From simple to more complex
- From exploratory to more goal directed
- From concrete to more abstract
- From ego centered to more social
- From adult directed to greater self-direction
- When their progress is systematically assessed, strengths are built on,
weakness prescribed.
