What did you do?

That day we had a conference, in which a principal of a rural school came to talk about how is to work there. Back to class, we talked a bit about what we thought about that conference. 

We also talked a little about bloom taxonomy and started briefly the evaluation unit.

What did you learn?

We talked a little about repetition in elementary school children. we could learn that repeating can be a hard shock for most of the children. It is important to make the decision, studying each child individually and helping them with the change and the role of families is fundamental in these cases.

We also learned that the stages of bloom taxonomy range from the simplest (remember) to the most complex (create)

To create is the most complex stadium. For elementary school children it is very complex to create, maybe they can do it in the last year of primary.

What is your opinion?

I think that if a child does not reach the expected academic level for his age, it is because something happens to him. It could be lack of motivation, problems in his development, lack of maturity, personal problems, etc. I think that if we know the possible reasons it will help us to understand them and in some occasions, it will be good for the child to repeat or not.