Helping students on their journey from novice to expert looks so different from their perspective than from our (hopefully expert) perspective!
Broad and detailed knowledge is required before it can be used to reason, argue, or articulate a point, and from before Early Year Foundation Stage onwards, hearing comes before speaking comes before writing (or drawing etc).... better listeners tend to be more articulate, who in turn tend to be better writers .... Trying to extrude expertly written output from a novice who lacks the knowledge and vocabulary is the nightmare of too many teachers... the absolutely crucial developmental roles of listening, speaking and reading in the development of writing cannot be overstated.
I agree with everything you say apart from the final 3 words. For example, how would we teach a deaf and mute student to write? My suggested method would work (or not work) in a similar way with this student as all others. In your ranking of skills they would achieve several grades lower at a writing task, wouldn’t they?
Helping students on their journey from novice to expert looks so different from their perspective than from our (hopefully expert) perspective!
Broad and detailed knowledge is required before it can be used to reason, argue, or articulate a point, and from before Early Year Foundation Stage onwards, hearing comes before speaking comes before writing (or drawing etc).... better listeners tend to be more articulate, who in turn tend to be better writers .... Trying to extrude expertly written output from a novice who lacks the knowledge and vocabulary is the nightmare of too many teachers... the absolutely crucial developmental roles of listening, speaking and reading in the development of writing cannot be overstated.
I agree with everything you say apart from the final 3 words. For example, how would we teach a deaf and mute student to write? My suggested method would work (or not work) in a similar way with this student as all others. In your ranking of skills they would achieve several grades lower at a writing task, wouldn’t they?
Good points, well made!