Monday, October 18, 2010

Reasoning Skills In Primary School

    Easily saying a lot of how you learn is practiced in primary school. That’s where you can learn how to focus and your motivations. In primary school you will learn your basics of writing, math and reading. If you have challenges catching it then that will affect you for a long time after that. It’s important that students are getting good grades in primary school. Attending primary school they start to get the skills early on, so they can practice through out. Although it is not the most important time to understand your skills, it is in fact a very crucial time to acquire them.     
    Reasoning is the most important skill in critical thinking, because it helps you to better understand explanations and arguments, therefore elevating your ability to better predict logical outcomes. You don’t have the ability to predict something if you don’t have the reason. It’s important to know how things happen and why. For primary school students they need to be practicing these early on to understand what they need to. Reasoning shows them options. They can weigh out their good options with their bad. This will give them the ability to realize they have their own decision making.
    Reasoning skills should be taught in primary schools so kids can understand the opportunity’s they have. It is also a important for critical thinking skills because it allows them to see two sides of the opinion. To have the students sit down and right for ten minutes constantly on a certain topic would stretch their abilities. For kids this age they need to be taught that there is more than one way for a situation to go. They also need to understand that all things do have a reason to them. Not only will this help their writing skills, but their logic skills.
    If students do have the correct reasoning skills they can learn how to interpret different types of information. Some might look into a big text and the first thing that comes to their mind is they can’t understand it. With reasoning skills they will be able to grasp the form of the text. This skill will help them dig deeper into their minds and the format of what they’re reading. One important assignment I know of in primary schools is the yearly science experiments. Students have to create a hypothesis and then prove it. Also recording the activity that happens during this amount of time. Reasoning is huge part of that because of what it is challenging them to understand.
    Problem solving is critical thinking, and does need reasoning. You can’t understand how to reason on your own or what good it will do for you. If reasoning skills are demonstrated to primary schools they will be able to write better papers and understand all materials. Reasoning is like the operation of being able to understand things to your own knowledge. To have reasoning skills be practiced in primary schools I think is a high advantage to kids that age. The students will enhance learning, listening and writing skills. They will more importantly have the ability to understand logic.