Thank You

Thank you for being there for me. I have learned so much from you this past 8 weeks. Look forward to discussion in our next class. Thank you Dr. D. I truly enjoyed your class.

Quotes

Whatever they grow up to be, they are still our children, and the one most important of all the things we can give to them is unconditional love. Not a love that depends on anything at all except that they are our children.”

Rosaleen Dickson quotes

Testing Intelligence

Testing Intelligence

Children learn different. Those who learn different I feel should be taught different. My son whom I feel is very talented played a full drum set by the age of 2 years old with no lessons. By the age of 15 he had learned to play the saxophone, guitar, and organ. It was not until High School that his band teacher realized that he could not read sheet music and had been playing by ear. He draws like he has attended art school and around the age of 12 he created mountains, valleys, rivers, trees, etc. on the walls in his room. He lays floor tiles with no prior experience. Before attending barber school he was capable of creating and drawing designs in boy’s haircuts. If you talk to him it would be hard to detect that he had a severe learning problem. His actual IQ is so low that the psychologist stated that he did know how we were keeping him in school.

     My sons’ elementary, middle, and high school report card consisted of C,D, and F. I literally pulled through school without having him tested or on medication. Around the age of 12 years old I allowed the school to test them. I was informed that he had a sever learning disability. At the age of 29 his creative side of the brain works very well. He attended Barber School passed the cutting, clipping, and hands on part of the test. He has not able to pass the written part of the test. Because he does learn different the state will testing’s him orally for the written part of the test.

Testing in Jamaica

Educating youth in Jamaica start at the young age of 2 years old. The Jamaicans believe that the foundation of their system lies within early childhood which they call
These Basic or Infant School.

There are a number of assessments done during the first 6 years to determine the children’s skills and abilities. These assessments are:

·       Grade 1-Readiness Test,

·       Grade 3-Assessment Test in Mathematics and Language Arts

·       Grade 4-Literacy Test

·       Grade -6Achievements Test in Mathematics, Language Arts, Science, and Social Studies.

I have a great interest in Jamaica because my two grandson’s dad is from Jamaica. I had the opportunity to visit Jamaica and attend a school. The school system is so different from the schools in the United States. Students appear to be eager to learn, and are so attentive. They are not a wealthy country but in so many ways they are rich. Education to them is very important to them and it is displayed through the children they educate.

EDUCATION IN JAMAIC

http://www.my-island-jamaica.com/education_in_jamaica.htmlA contributed by Dorrett Simmons