Another blog wrote about this also-but I think this Learning Pyramid is facinating. What it says is that we learn the best by teaching others. Perhaps this is why the One Room Schoolhouse worked so well. The older students were taught by the teacher and then they helped the little ones. My parents both went to a One Room Schoolhouse and I asked them over Thanksgiving what learning in that environment was like. They said that the teacher would call up the grades one at a time. You would be working at your desk but you would hear the teacher going over the material for the different age groups again and again. So there was repitition and when you were older you helped those in need of help. My parents have their doctorates and masters degrees. They learned a lot in those little red schoolhouses-maybe they learned by teaching others.
Check out this website for more information on why this works.
Check out this website for more information on why this works.
1 comment:
I'm a science and math teacher, and I've spent a lot of time researching this learning pyramid. You should know that it is empirically totally invalid. The numbers on it were fabricated out of thin air and not based on any sort of research. The history and lack of credibility of the pyramid are explained really well here: http://www.cisco.com/web/strategy/docs/education/Multimodal-Learning-Through-Media.pdf.
Hey, if you're going to be a teacher, you might as well learn now that education "research" should always be cross-checked... most of it is junk!
Best of luck!
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