Graduation Speech : My Experience At The Front Of The Entire Class

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There I was, eagerly practicing and ready to show off my newly learnt ABC’s in front of the entire class. The time had come, my hand shot straight up in the air, waiting to be picked to sing my heart out. It should be noted that before this we all practiced as a group to a corny cassette version. I was confidently singing, hitting every letter as it went by. As I strode to the front, as assured as any six year could be, remembering all the practice I had put in at home, singing the ears off everyone I knew, I was ready.

During our school years we are overloaded with memories, some amazing, life altering ones and some one would rather forget. In my case, the memory I’ve begun to share is one of those memories that I could have done
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Another group of theorists have explained cognitive development in terms of changes in children’s ability to process information (Duchesne, 2012 pg. 94). Kindergarten, according to Jean Piaget, is the time children would fit into the Preoperational stage of development. This is the stage in which a child is not yet able to operate or carry out logical physical actions mentally but is reliant on manipulating real materials. Piaget emphasized the limitations of children’s thinking during this stage (Duchesne, 2012 pg. 60). With this information we can recognize that at this age, children’s information processing is not yet at it’s strongest.
As I stood ready to sing the alphabet I began to get extremely nervous in front of all the kids, eyes poised and watching me. I began flawlessly, gaining back my confidence until that dreaded Q, R, and S. Not only did I jumble up the order but I immediately forgot the rest, I just stood their frozen.

Encoding and retrieval is a big part of what encompasses information processing. This is the action of storing information in the long-term memory and then bringing that stored information back into the working memory (Duchesne, 2012 pg. 94). Like previously mentioned in the Preoperational stage, this process can be difficult for younger children however definitely not impossible. My memories of learning the alphabet relied heavily on the information processing theory. Our teachers aimed to have this skill in
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