How can we train learners educationally so that they develop the skills that facilitate success in education? How can learners be trained to study, learn, teach, and develop educational skills? To do this, with success, it is recommended that Educational Training be started by warming up. Warming Up in Educational Training has two parts: Stretching and Conditioning.
How can learners train educationally by warming up?
We learn to warm up in physical education and in preparation for athletic events. In physical education and athletics we warm up to prepare the body. The body is prepared by stretching muscles and tendons, followed by conditioning. Stretching develops elasticity. Conditioning develops performance and endurance.
In the classroom, warming up is a process by which learners develop educational elasticity so they may perform and endure successfully. This can be done when learners stretch their knowledge and condition their understanding.
Learners can stretch their knowledge by applying forces to it. An area of knowledge can be stretched across different subjects, places, and time. The learner can demonstrate this by taking knowledge from one area of education and applying it to other areas. A learner who knows how to count can stretch that knowledge by counting backwards, skip counting, counting in a different language, etc.
Learners can condition their understanding by increasing performance and developing endurance. Educational performance can be increased when the learner repeatedly performs with accuracy their understanding of knowledge. Educational endurance can be developed over time by the learner when maintaining their understanding of knowledge over time. A learner who knows how to add can condition that understanding of knowledge by adding single digits, more that two digits, decimals, fractions, like terms, variables, monomials, binomials, equations, etc.
Author: Manuel R. CortezRodas - Educator
