{"id":3419,"date":"2017-01-26T13:36:36","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T13:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.helendoron.com\/?p=3419"},"modified":"2018-12-11T11:58:05","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T11:58:05","slug":"spiral_learning_part_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.helendoron.it\/buccinasco\/spiral_learning_part_1\/","title":{"rendered":"Spiral Learning – A Successful Approach to Learning for Your Child"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"More than 2 million children have learnt English through the Helen Doron methodology. What is the secret to your success? How does the method work?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

There are many features of the methodology that contribute to its success, let\u2019s focus now on the concept of spiral learning. Spiral learning is a relatively new concept in education. Rather than trying to master a subject all at once, spiral learning teaches a concept gradually and repeatedly, reinforcing concepts over time. The idea is that each time a student encounters the topic; the student expands their knowledge or improves their skill level. It is a very natural process.<\/p>\n

How is spiral learning a natural process?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Think about how you taught your baby. Did you bring him into the kitchen and say, \u201cWe are going to sit here until you learn all the utensils\u2014spoon, cup, fork, table and so on.\u201d I imagine you did not do this and rather, taught him through the process of active participation. \u2018Here is your cup. What is in your cup? Ooh, yes you have juice in the cup. Would you like a spoon to put into your cup? And so on\u2026\u2019<\/p>\n

What you are doing is using the language and you are repeating the word and using sentences to emphasize the words and ideas you are trying to get across. It is an expected way of learning. Nobody has sat down in the garden with their young child and said, \u201cAlright we are going to learn everything about the garden and won\u2019t go back inside until you have mastered the information. \u201cIt\u2019s not a natural way to learn, it\u2019s not how we do things. We learn information in context and we learn it over time and it\u2019s an intuitive way of learning. My method teaches 70% familiar content and 30% new ideas because children need to be introduced to the new, even if they don\u2019t yet know the old thoroughly. It is essential to remember that children are constantly growing and changing, even from week to week.\u00a0 A child one week is completely different from the next week and for sure, when there is a month between reintroducing ideas, there can be a whole universe between how the child grasps information and processes what he is learning.<\/p>\n

Back in the 1980s, when I first began teaching English, we had just produced, the English For All Children <\/em>programme.<\/em> Book 2 taught parts of the body and I had a feeling that one of my group of 3 to 5 year olds wasn\u2019t \u2018getting it\u2019. I felt they didn\u2019t know the information well enough, so I decided to teach the didactic things that I knew that everyone else taught, even though it wasn\u2019t my teaching methodology or philosophy to do so. I decided that the class would learn the parts of the body, I had a full arsenal of activities, and games\u2014 from bingo to lotto to memory game to movement, hide, and seek. We came out of that lesson and I said to the class, \u201cThat\u2019s it! You know all the parts of the body. You are brilliant! You can say shoulders, knees, toes and more. You can do all the things, I so proud of you.\u201d To my amazement, the kids responded, \u201cBut we didn\u2019t learn anything.\u201d In astonishment I replied, \u201cWhat do you mean we didn\u2019t learn anything? We just spent \u00be of an hour learning the parts of the body and you know them really well.\u201d They answered, \u201cyes but we didn\u2019t learn anything.\u201d I suddenly realized they meant that they had not learnt anything new.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The students expected to learn something new. It isn\u2019t that they expected to fully master a new concept. They might not pronounce the word properly 100 of the time but they were satisfied and knew that they would return to the idea again in the following weeks. Bit by bit, the knowledge would become firmly entrenched. It\u2019s a little bit like the story of dying the cloth. When you dye a cloth in India, you will take the cloth, dip it into the colour, put it in the sun to dry, it fades, and then you re-dye until it is fast. Spiral learning is exactly like that. The children are exposed to something, they go out, they forget a bit of it, they return, learn it again and the process continues until they really know it, effortlessly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More than 2 million children have learnt English through the Helen Doron methodology. What is the secret to your success? How does the method work? There are many features of the methodology that contribute to its success, let\u2019s focus now on the<\/p>\n

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