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by yep345
524 days ago
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I would not pay my kids for grades, my parents kinda did this and in retrospective I came to conclusion it was not good incentive. I personally don't like grades system, in my simplistic opinion it tought me to adjust to school system- I was memorising just enough to get a grade, then I was forgetting this because the only thing I cared for was grade and not actual skill or knowledge. I had to occasionally memorise/relearn stuff again. I also paid attention to what triggers my teachers so they notice me as good student, so I could occasionally get good grades just because they recognised me. This worked even at university. Now that I'm older I am 100% convinced how wrong this was. Instead of picking up skills and knowledge I was learning to game the system. I don't want my kids to be like me. I send my kids to school where there are no literate grades until they are 13 (first 6 years). First three years they do 'work with help materials' and that's how they learn to read, write, count and some math basics. They learn this to acquire skill, not to get grades. Next 3 years they are continuing that pattern + they do projects in teams (where projects are very open-ended). This is the time where there is work they have to do, those tasks are marked as yellow. There are optional tasks marked orange and red but only kids who want them pick them up. During first 6 years teachers pay very close attention to what kids pick up and what do they avoid, so it's not possible to simply not do math just because you don't like it, or not write essays, teachers try to understand what are the blockers that make students to avoid picking these up and work with students to unblock them. Last 2 years they are introduced to grades because that's what highschool system here is based on (though, if I have good health and will be able to work I will send them to purely project-based highschool). |
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