I told the kids all the time that I didn't care so much whether they got the answer right or wrong, I wanted to know how they got their answer. I'd rather have them get a long division problem wrong because of an arithmetic mistake than get it right by accident, because if they understand the concept they're good to go and they have the skills to do higher level math.
Same for reading. I loved to get inside their heads and I told them as much. I loved to figure out why they mispronounced words, misinterpreted a passage, spelled a word incorrectly. I loved to teach them that they were not "mistakers," they were kids who made mistakes sometimes like we all do but the important thing was not to get hung up on that mistake.
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Date: 2009-06-27 09:22 pm (UTC)Same for reading. I loved to get inside their heads and I told them as much. I loved to figure out why they mispronounced words, misinterpreted a passage, spelled a word incorrectly. I loved to teach them that they were not "mistakers," they were kids who made mistakes sometimes like we all do but the important thing was not to get hung up on that mistake.