pre-organization learning -- Adolescent Psychology Applied to Education

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Subject: pre-organization learning

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Adam Stich

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Date Posted: 13:57:18 01/20/08 Sun

Class was entertaining. I know we're supposed to pose an original thought, but I just wanted to say that first before I get into the academia.

Alright, now for my original thought. I will start by saying this thought is extremely original; however, I've pristinely aware that many educators, after having taken adolescent psychology courses, have probably had the same idea. The idea is that I, as an educator, need to incorporate more concrete teaching strategies in order to teach abstract english ideas. There is a lot of abstract stuff (technical term) in high school english. For example, simile's and metaphors are abstract principles. My students probably struggle with them so much because many, I assume, are pre-organization learners.

That said, I'm convicted. Instead of giving my students meaningless definitions to explains abstract principles, I will try and explain them in more concrete operations.

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