The similarity between the two is that both types of students are adjusting the amount of work they need to put in, based on the given standard.
Besides just boring smart kids to insanity, and frustrating dumb kids into giving up, this is the real problem. Kids learn to compare themselves to a standard, instead of learning how to make use of themselves. That’s what a kid needs to learn.
That’s a good point. I’d generalize it and combine it with what I previously said, to finding out what you can do with yourself, and getting good at it. Learn how to make use of themselves, and find the uses their particularly good for.
Besides just boring smart kids to insanity, and frustrating dumb kids into giving up, this is the real problem. Kids learn to compare themselves to a standard, instead of learning how to make use of themselves. That’s what a kid needs to learn.
In addition to learning what they learn easily and what they have difficulty learning.
That’s a good point. I’d generalize it and combine it with what I previously said, to finding out what you can do with yourself, and getting good at it. Learn how to make use of themselves, and find the uses their particularly good for.