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The first part of the learning process for a student involves taking in or expressing information using a complex system.
When you are able to understand how children learn, you can teach them more efficiently. More importantly when they struggle with something you can better help them over the hurdle. An Analogy of the leaning processA child’s brain is an empty filing cabinet. As they grow and experience things, they begin to put information into their filing cabinet. Most children create files and add them to their filing cabinet with little difficulty. They also pull them out when needed. Every once in a while a file gets lost, but a little extra effort locates it. Their learning process is improving. For some children, the process of learning is not so easy. Some of them have difficulty getting information into their cabinet and others, have difficulty getting information out. Teaching a child is like helping them to use a filing system to organize their files. For many kids, this is a very natural learning process, but when a child has difficulty there are specific strategies that will help. Everything you have ever experienced during your learning process is in your filing cabinet, neatly categorized so you can pull it out as needed. Children start out with no file folders, so the information is often confused. Ever notice a young child calls everything with 4 legs a DOG. You see, they only have one file folder and everything that has fur and 4 LEGS, goes into that folder. When you point to a horse for the first time, they say DOG. After a few exposures they realize they need a new file folder labeled BIG 4 LEGGED ANIMAL. The Process of Learning - Where did I put that fileSome children have no problem creating the files. They have lots of files. They are smart. Their problem lies in finding the file when they need it. These children don’t quite understand that the A’s are near the top, and the W’s are near the bottom. When they go looking for a file, they just start opening file drawers and peeking in files. At their learning process level, it takes them quite a while to find the right file. These children need a long time to express themselves. You might say: “Would you like to do math or spelling next?” and they stare at you, or look away. You think you are being ignored but in reality, your child is trying to process that information. You see for them they have to think along these lines: “Math … that thing with all those numbers … I like those numbers … It is fun … Spelling …Oh … that is those letter things … I have to write them out 5 times each … I hate that stuff … which would I like next … should I get the spelling over with first? Should I pick math and maybe I won’t have to do spelling …” You see in going through this, they had to find the Math File, Spelling File, Reasoning file, Avoidance file and then finally the Decision File … MATH (hoping they never get to spelling). If you aren’t very good at locating files, this can be a long learning process. Most children will do this in a split second. They are quick to locate and retrieve files. Others have great difficulty and need extra time. As you realize, the learning process differs from child to child. Comments (0)
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However, specific difficulties can result from specific areas of weakness. 
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