Teaching

Janice Acosta of Learning Success has posted a video of me giving advice for people who are teaching their children at home during the COVID-19 epidemic.  Chad Ream of Imaginarium Pictures in Portage, Michigan, made the video for me.  You can find this video at https://www.learningsuccesssystem.com/tips/nhs/janetruthheller Below are some of my comments. Children learn best when they can participate actively in the lesson.  Therefore, do not just lecture children.  Instead, ask kids questions about the topic that stimulate analytic thinking.  Push them to develop their ideas and write about their ideas.  Or take the children outside and do an experiment.  For example, when I was about eight years old, our teacher asked us to form groups of two to measure our shadows outside at different times of the day.  I have never forgotten that shadows grow longer as the sun gets lower in the sky, either in the east or the west.  This brings science to life.