Our kids know so much. It’s most dramatic with strong kids on the AP exam, like that kid who got the four on the AP French exam in level 2. But it’s hard to measure as explained below. Chris rightly touts writing results. We need to do that.
We have been talking about listing, identifying, publishing those results for decades. But when they get mixed up in the current non-CI testing environment, said testing overrides and skews our own results so that they look, oddly, equal or even lower in some schools, to the results traditional teachers get.
We have talked about this odd situation for years here. I always say that it is because we can’t measure what has been planted in the unconscious mind. The seeds, the millions of seeds that we plant via CI, are there in the ground but haven’t sprouted yet. There are NO seeds in the deeper minds of traditionally taught kids, but the memorized stuff gets tested and no one questions the lack of seeds/long term gains. And since our kids don’t memorize, the come up lacking on those memorization tests.