Unless your child is fortunate to attend a special school, there’s a good chance of them falling victim to the worrying statistics of worldwide education. The OECD’s Program for International Student Assessment (PISA testing) last performed in 2015 revealed that the math literacy of U.S. students falls below the OECD average, while science was at the international average, with both scores stagnating since 2006.
This indicates that the U.S. educational system is not achieving what it ought to, and unengaged students are unsuccessful in processing the information learned and translating it into science’s applications in the real world.
Beyond placing the blame on a failing educational system, we are faced with a “Screen Generation” of students who have lost interest in frontal learning. Even basic fine motor skills are no longer been taught in schools, since worldwide curriculums excluded craft teaching.
Most kids are not succeeding at school. Sadly, our educational system doesn’t usually reward students for their creativity or consider their personal curve of learning. Instead, our schools still uses math grades to differentiate “smart” kids from the others. This attitude kills our children’s curiosity, creativity, confidence and self-esteem– negatively impacting them as adults.
Assembling our models addresses the concerns mentioned above as:
- The science lies in the context of the model and connects your child to his daily life.
- Learning happens hands-on, and not through passive listening.
- Assembling AristoCraft’s models improves motor skills and spatial visualization skills.
- The sense of accomplishment of completing assembly of a model boosts your child’s confidence and self-esteem.
