All parents and teachers hope that children can take the initiative to learn, but reality often contradicts this, leading to conflicts between parents and children, as well as between teachers and students. If a child is gifted but does not take the initiative to learn, wasting their innate learning abilities, the situation is even more regrettable.
Recently, in response to this issue, the Hong Kong Education Department's official website published suggestions. The Hong Kong Education Department pointed out that learning has not only a cognitive and rational aspect but also an emotional side, and neglecting the emotional aspect can greatly affect children's learning effectiveness and enthusiasm. For example, teaching children the English word "snow" may lead them to be able to spell and pronounce it, and they may know that the Chinese meaning is "雪" (snow), but their impression is usually not very deep unless they are allowed to play in real snow, experiencing the cold, fun, and interesting feelings.
Therefore, to achieve good learning outcomes, in addition to rational elements (such as knowledge, definitions, facts, and rules), attention must also be paid to the feelings and experiences of students during the learning process. Positive feelings such as joy, fun, a sense of success, satisfaction, and meaning all contribute positively to learning outcomes and make students enjoy learning. Conversely, negative feelings such as dullness, meaninglessness, lack of confidence, insecurity, frustration, fear, and lack of respect can weaken students' learning effectiveness and make them dislike learning. Gifted students are no different from regular students in this regard.
The Hong Kong Education Department believes that the key to nurturing gifted students lies here; rather than forcing them to learn this or that, which creates unnecessary anxiety and aversion, affecting learning effectiveness and enthusiasm, it is better to enhance their interest in learning and make them enjoy learning.
China Education News, December 31, 2014, Page 9
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