Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another." -- Marva Collins

This reminds me of what Dr. Stoicovy says about teaching a child to be a literate and fluent reader. You have to romance them into loving to read and to use the words and the pictures, your voice and your body language to make them want to get involved with the text. This is as contagious as you can get.

I have to say that this class has been the most challenging of all my graduate classes. It even beats my first technology class last fall. Assessment is not something to be taken lightly and interpreting the results and making the final diagnosis is even more serious. I will be glad when I get the final approval to post my case report to Livetext. It can only mean that I have finally, after numerous submissions for review, reached an acceptable level in my report.

Image: Rose from Istanbul, Turkey taken by FCKaible