There is no doubt about it – children learn things very quickly. Even the most powerful computer in the world has yet to rival a child’s learning capacity. I have come across terms such as IQ (intelligence quotient), EQ (emotional quotient) and SQ (spiritual quotient) but I when I tried to Google ‘learning quotient’ and found that there was no definition, I was truly shocked.
In my opinion, Learning Quotient (LQ) should be given immediate emphasis, adults and children alike, because it plays an important role in our daily lives. Why is this important? Because every individual has different inclinations, such as visual, audio, action oriented, arithmetic and etc, it is important for us to gauge the best way for the individual to learn. And I felt that this can be best demonstrated via LQ. Humans need to be taught, and in order to be taught, the students must be able to learn.
For teachers (or parents or bosses for that matter) to teach effectively, I would like to think that LQ would enable them to understand why some students (or children or employees) learn faster from the rest. A simple test could be the following scenario:
Scenario 1
A teacher writes “1 +1 = 2” on the blackboard
Scenario 2
A teacher says one plus one equals to two.
Scenario 3
A teacher gives all the students 2 peas each and explains why 1 + 1 = 2
Scenario 4
A teacher gets the students to come up with different examples of the concept.
All 4 scenarios involves a teacher trying to teach students simple mathematics via different methods:
Scenario 1 = visual learner
Scenario 2 = audio learner
Scenario 3 = action learner
Scenario 4 = reaction learner = learns more as they teach
It seems deceptively simple but I assure that in real life situation, many parents or bosses take for granted that their children or employees learn from only ONE of the above scenarios, usually audio. Which is the reason why we keep hearing “how many times must I say….” and “didn’t I tell you this 3 times before?”.
I have seen it happen many times in real life how sports coaches tried in vain to tell their players not to repeat certain moves. If only they take the trouble to record the actions on video and show it to their players, they may save themselves a lot of misery.
There are probably a lot more scenarios to LQ and it would be great if you could share more with me.
In my opinion, Learning Quotient (LQ) should be given immediate emphasis, adults and children alike, because it plays an important role in our daily lives. Why is this important? Because every individual has different inclinations, such as visual, audio, action oriented, arithmetic and etc, it is important for us to gauge the best way for the individual to learn. And I felt that this can be best demonstrated via LQ. Humans need to be taught, and in order to be taught, the students must be able to learn.
For teachers (or parents or bosses for that matter) to teach effectively, I would like to think that LQ would enable them to understand why some students (or children or employees) learn faster from the rest. A simple test could be the following scenario:
Scenario 1
A teacher writes “1 +1 = 2” on the blackboard
Scenario 2
A teacher says one plus one equals to two.
Scenario 3
A teacher gives all the students 2 peas each and explains why 1 + 1 = 2
Scenario 4
A teacher gets the students to come up with different examples of the concept.
All 4 scenarios involves a teacher trying to teach students simple mathematics via different methods:
Scenario 1 = visual learner
Scenario 2 = audio learner
Scenario 3 = action learner
Scenario 4 = reaction learner = learns more as they teach
It seems deceptively simple but I assure that in real life situation, many parents or bosses take for granted that their children or employees learn from only ONE of the above scenarios, usually audio. Which is the reason why we keep hearing “how many times must I say….” and “didn’t I tell you this 3 times before?”.
I have seen it happen many times in real life how sports coaches tried in vain to tell their players not to repeat certain moves. If only they take the trouble to record the actions on video and show it to their players, they may save themselves a lot of misery.
There are probably a lot more scenarios to LQ and it would be great if you could share more with me.
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