Learning is progressive, not stagnant.

The Oxford Dictionary defines the word ‘progressive’ as ‘happening or developing gradually or in stages’.

I love the way they define this word and it is exactly what I believe learning is. Learning is PROGRESSIVE.

The Oxford Dictionary defines the word ‘stagnant’ as ‘lack of growth, movement or progression.

This is the opposite of what learning is - in my opinion.

Many of you seem to think that learning happens in a stagnant manner. You stop and start. You are not consistent. You doubt that your child would be ‘able to do it anyway’. You give up. This is definitely NOT what learning looks like.

You assume that it is the job of your child’s school to keep his or her learning progressive but it 100% is not by the way. Having worked in hundreds of schools over the last 16 years, I can tell you with absolute certainty that the quality of learning your child receives at school (regardless of where they go!) cannot be superior to what you can provide them on a 1:1 basis at home.

Remember that your child only has one teacher. And that one teacher has to teacher 19-29 other children. Remember that regardless of where your child goes to school, that one teacher may or may not have the support of a teaching assistant. With budget cuts and everything else political that goes down in schools, I often found myself with no support. Alone in a classroom with 20-30 children. There is only so much I could do.

Learning is progressive because it is ongoing. It flows beautifully like a river. It doesn’t stop and start. It is continuous. When learning is progressive, you many not see any progress at all. This is the point where 70% of my clients will just stop. They will tell me ‘this isn’t working’, they will tell me that ‘their child is not making progress’ and it absolutely is not true. They just don’t believe in the process. Those are not my kind of clients. These are clients who create stagnant learning environments for their children. They are haphazard at best. They put out phonics for their child once a week because their child ‘will do it at nursery anyway’.

When learning is stagnant, you will definitely see zero progress. Progress cannot be made in this way.

Your chid needs to be earning continuously and it is not up to their nursery or school to take full responsibility for this by the way. It is up to you.

I worked in far too many private schools where there was a sense of entitlement because the parents were paying 30-50k a year that their child’s teacher should be doing more, more and more. It 100% does not work that way. Send your child wherever you think is best for them but ensure learning is progressive for them and never stagnant.

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