Inventing a curriculum, online teacher in teaching children in a way that would truly teach them something, educators would do well to call to mind a great piece of advice that child development scientists give us: just because you need to see a child to finally read and write properly, doesn’t mean you need to savagely force the child to keep repeating the alphabet. The training for something in a child almost never involves the very activity that you wish to see in the end. If for example you want an athlete to run faster, you don’t go and keep forcing him to run without end as practice. You target the muscles that would be the best use in running, and devise all kinds of training schemes to strengthen them individually. Once that is done, the running will come effortlessly.
Helping a child to read and write, is simply done better by helping the child think better; parents and online teacher can talk to the child, engaging her in talking about complex descriptions of what she feels, learns, or intends to do. Children are not supposed to be cramming in elementary school to “prepare for” high school or later, do they?



