Friday, December 21, 2018

Asychrony

In the past couple of weeks, I've been hit over the head multiple times by The Kid's asynchrony.

For a year or two now, I've said her academic level is "um, I don't know, upper elementary? Maybe middle school-ish?" Super-specific, right? Part of the problem is that input and output are vastly different levels. Her ability to understand written or verbal information is awesome, and she has fun with college-level materials. However, her writing is somewhere in the elementary levels. What level does that make her, anyway? What level do you call a kid when listening to college lectures is fun, discussing them is not particularly challenging, but a written response would be miserable?