- When cognitive skills are strong, academic learning is fast, easy, efficient, and even fun.
- When cognitive skills are weak, academic learning will be, at best, a struggle.
- Cognitive skills are, therefore, the essential tools for learning.
Mental or cognitive skills may seem a bit mysterious because they are not easy to see or recognize by themselves. But, without the underlying cognitive skills, you and I could not process the information received from every possible source -- sound, touch, sight, taste, and smell.
This is quite true. But, somehow as a teacher, we are too overwhelmed with cognitive skills that we miss how the kids really can really learn effectively by their individual learning styles. Cognitive skills are then selective depending on how ready and willing a student can be.
ReplyDeleteI'm agree with you Ruz.... we must look in every aspect to teach the kids... hope we do the bost for the children...
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