Hi Everyone!
This week, I've been learning a great deal about children with disabilities, diagnostics and early intervention. There is a wide spread notion that more and more educators are believing in called teaching "holistically" or teaching the "whole child". This means that an educator would take every aspect of a child's being into consideration when developing a plan on how to educate this child in the most effective way possible. From past classes, I know that a teacher would consider a child's personality, their learning abilities and styles, their interests, culture and family structure when developing a holistic educational plan. It can all be very complex and it prompts many to think, how can a teacher have time in today' strict educational society to do this for every child.
I, however, believe its important to do what you can as an educator. Personally, I feel that intelligence testing is fundamentally flawed and that many things should be taken into consideration when measuring the intellectual potential of a human being.I recently read an article entitled "Rising Scores on Intelligence Tests" by Ulric Neisser. The title explains it all, IQ tests are rising all over the world. This is most likely due to the exponential increase in the disbursement of knowledge in our world.
Interesting Fact: In the Netherlands,all male 18-year-olds take a test of abstract-reasoning ability as part of a military-induction requirement (Ulric, 2014).
Coincidentally, perhaps IQ testing is going by the wayside. I haven't heard of any of my acquaintances going through it, and I have never been tested. Have you or anyone you've known been tested for intelligence levels?
Here's a link to the aforementioned article:
That was insightful. We as the educator should do all we can do to insure the growth and the progress of the children's fundamentals. Although with that being said I don't think that the parent should leave full responsibility in the teachers hands. Parents should spend a little extra time every night, or while cooking dinner to be more attentive to there kids before any test can gage a child's growth.
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