{"id":8313,"date":"2001-10-30T19:26:28","date_gmt":"2001-10-30T19:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/?post_type=catbird-seat&#038;p=8313"},"modified":"2020-04-23T19:29:12","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T19:29:12","slug":"learning-gaps","status":"publish","type":"catbird-seat","link":"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/catbird-seat\/learning-gaps\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning Gaps"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\n<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>I would like to address a commonly overlooked curriculum gap that usually occurs during the upper elementary to junior high years.\u00a0 This is an integrated, meshed (through lesson plans) cohesion of all core subjects.\u00a0 Look at it this way:\u00a0 Is your student learning the connection between literature, sociology, and history?\u00a0 Does he learn that most literature is written reflection of the politics, the philosophies, and the practices of that era?\u00a0 Language and cultures are inseparably intertwined.\u00a0 Does he see no purpose in studying history, but likes reading the literature of the same period?\u00a0 History must also be linked with geography.\u00a0 My son-in-law recently asked several of his employees what they knew about the Civil War.\u00a0 He was shocked that they had no understanding that even the term &#8220;civil&#8221; can imply geographical and sociological boundaries.\u00a0 Modern physics is the integrally explained relationship between math and science.\u00a0 Is some connection being made early enough?\u00a0 Hands on experiments are the best!\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAs a student matures in his schooling, he should be acutely aware of the importance of English skills, especially reading, to all other skills.\u00a0 Does he know how much skilled reading is involved in almost any business practice, or law, or sales?\u00a0 Even the highly trained technical fields of math and science come with thick instruction and procedural manuals.\u00a0 Many companies complain to schools that students graduate not being able to read instructions, comprehend procedures, or make connections between the written job description and their tasks at hand.\u00a0 Nearly every job involves written evaluation at some point.\u00a0 Is that skill being taught as a part of math, science, and history as well as English?\u00a0 And don&#8217;t neglect foreign language.\u00a0 Ask any scientist, especially a chemist, biologist, and of course, all kinds of doctors how much Latin they had to learn.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe curriculum sequence I covered in my <a href=\"http:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/intro-to-core-curriculums-feb-2001\/\">February, 2001 column<\/a> is good insurance against this kind of learning gap.\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8313","catbird-seat","type-catbird-seat","status-publish","hentry","category-from-the-catbird-seat"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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