I’m a teacher in training and in my internship this year I’m teaching first years (12 years old in my country). It’s actually so funny and interesting to me that they often ask me questions from a perspective I would’ve never thought about, just because they’re working with novel and limited information. I didn’t experience that at all when teaching year 3 or year 5 because they’re less of a ‘clean slate’.
Excuse my ignorance but, first years of what? Like school ever? 12 seems pretty late to start, if that’s the case what does their life and education look like before then?
I really love what you take away from that experience though. It’s amazing because we really are always learning, and anyone can teach us something. If you remember any of them and feel like sharing I’d be curious to hear them!
My 10 year old son loves dinosaurs and space. He reads and watches tons of stuff, and is now telling me about Dinosaur species I’m not familiar with, and facts about various moons/planets/etc. I’m pretty well read on these subjects too.
I grew up thinking we knew everything there is to know about dinosaurs. Then I had a kid, who started to learn all about them. So far he’s told me about how scientists think many of them had features, how Brontosauruses didn’t exist, how there are multiple T-Rex species, and more. The pace of scientific development is crazy, and he keeps up with a lot of it for also being ten. I love to hear about it.
Not exactly related to what you said, but what you said made me think about it. Dinos are cool.
What’s great with this, is that eventually they WILL tell you facts you DIDN’T know, which is an amazing feeling.
I’m a teacher in training and in my internship this year I’m teaching first years (12 years old in my country). It’s actually so funny and interesting to me that they often ask me questions from a perspective I would’ve never thought about, just because they’re working with novel and limited information. I didn’t experience that at all when teaching year 3 or year 5 because they’re less of a ‘clean slate’.
Excuse my ignorance but, first years of what? Like school ever? 12 seems pretty late to start, if that’s the case what does their life and education look like before then?
I really love what you take away from that experience though. It’s amazing because we really are always learning, and anyone can teach us something. If you remember any of them and feel like sharing I’d be curious to hear them!
I want this.
My 10 year old son loves dinosaurs and space. He reads and watches tons of stuff, and is now telling me about Dinosaur species I’m not familiar with, and facts about various moons/planets/etc. I’m pretty well read on these subjects too.
I absolutely love it.
I grew up thinking we knew everything there is to know about dinosaurs. Then I had a kid, who started to learn all about them. So far he’s told me about how scientists think many of them had features, how Brontosauruses didn’t exist, how there are multiple T-Rex species, and more. The pace of scientific development is crazy, and he keeps up with a lot of it for also being ten. I love to hear about it.
Not exactly related to what you said, but what you said made me think about it. Dinos are cool.
Definitely recommend this book:
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of Their Lost World
by Steve Brusatte
Thanks, I’ll add it to my wish list.