![]() Do tests to determine if the child is learning the material. Sit still and listen when child development says that kids need to move to learn. But for the kids, it’s often the worst model. It’s certainly the best model for administrators to evaluate how much learning is (or isn’t) happening. Somewhere along the path of our homeschooling journey, I realized that hey! Traditional school isn’t the best learning model! It’s often the best model for teachers. Even pre-schoolers learn to print their name, right? How could I be asking too much from him if everyone else thinks this is the way to do it? Write a paragraph about the story you just read. How could my kid not do worksheets? Other kids loved worksheets, right? Even most curriculums have some form of worksheet-type format: do 6 math problems, then do these 6. If we did that, we may not have had as much hesitation as we do now. My sister did that with her children, and I think they used somewhere like The Little Thinkers Center to find activities like this that would help them with their childhood development. Even something as small as thinking activities would have gotten him in the right frame of mind for when he came to this age. In hindsight, I probably should have started to introduce this type of learning at a younger age so that this wouldn’t be a problem now. My unfamiliarity with schooling my own child made me rely on traditional school expectations, and those expectations were the problem. After battling him for a little while with the ubiquitous worksheets, I decided that I needed to find another road. “If you have to tell a child something a thousand times, perhaps it is not the child who is the slow learner.” Walter Barbe, then editor-in-chief of “Highlights for Children” magazine, 1986, address to teachersĪt the time I was dealing with a 4-year-old Engineer who bounced off the walls, refused to do “school work,” and while undeniably bright, wasn’t an academic achiever in any way. There’s a profound little quote floating around the internet that really influenced me when we first started homeschooling: Please see my affiliate disclosure at the bottom of the blog for more information. Nevertheless, Pages, while good enough for many people, just isn't going to be giving Microsoft too many sleepless nights for now.This post contains some affiliate links because I’m sharing things that work for us. Of course, with Word often being accused of feature bloat, that might be a good thing as far as many people are concerned, and it also doesn't come with Word's price tag. It's easier to use than Word, but it doesn't have its power. On balance, for the ordinary user, Pages '09 doesn't really have much that Pages '08 didn't. Both tools (which have to be purchased separately) offer greater capabilities than those available in Word, although both come with native integration with Word (and other Office apps). For more advanced users, there's integration with both EndNote X2 and MathType 6.ĮndNote lets you create and edit bibliographic references while MathType lets you generate equations far more sophisticated than those produced by OS X's Grapher application. ![]() Pages' mail-merge facility has also been updated to be able to draw on tables in Numbers documents, something that's considerably easier than with Word 2008. It also includes inline images and movies in the outline view. While Word has had that since as far back as Word 4.0, Pages lets you drag and drop topics to reorganise them, while the information associated with each topic and sub-topic will follow it around. Outline mode lets you create a detailed outline view of your document, with multiple levels of topics and subtopics. ![]() We also found that when switching back to normal view, trying to persuade Pages documents' not to continue to block out other programs was almost impossible without hiding the whole program. While Word doesn't really have anything like this, WriteRoom, for example, does and it does it better with more customisation. This is to remove distractions when you're trying to compose your thoughts. #Writeroom lag full#Top of proper new features though is Full Screen view, which makes Pages fill the entire screen while losing the Desktop, Dock, menubar and any palettes you might have open, leaving just your document, a page number indicator, a word count and a pop-up sidebar for page navigation. docx is supported can rest easy since Office 2007/8 formats are supported throughout iWork '09. Anyone worried about whether the dreaded. ![]()
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