From Lisa Guernsey’s A False Debate about Preschool (and K-12) Learning:
When a child sees an intriguing model of how to ask questions, explore and test hypotheses, that child will want to do the same.
What children need are more learning environments – not just in preschool, but throughout their early, middle and later years of school – that give them day-to-day experience with adults who offer them effective and engaging models of what it looks like to learn.
Maybe we could think of this as direct instruction of discovery learning, especially if we note that modeling and imitation learning can be much more powerful and direct than declarative description / prescription.
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