The erased handles have merits and demerits. They can help the child to reduce school uneasiness, to save him from fear of a mistake. But they can disguise serious problems at the child, and precious time for their correction will be missed.
The adult generation for certain will remember many devices by means of which they tried to correct errors in notebooks and bad marks in diaries: chlorine solution, edge and grain crumb, pencil and eraser … Today school students were come to the rescue by handles "write-erase", allowing to correct quickly and easily written. But whether so they are useful? Why more and more teachers forbid children to use such handles?
In the majority of the modern erased handles the thermoink fading when heating is used (for example, from friction by an eraser). There are also fineliner pens with absorbers of ink.
The erased handle - joy of the school student
So, the kid came to 1 class. Ahead long months of setting of a hand and formation of handwriting. The child diligently removes the first sticks, hooks and ovals, but small fingers badly obey, and it turns out not at all "as in a copy-book". Parents abuse, the teacher corrects curve elements the red handle, the first grader is upset. Here where the erased handle can become a lifesaver! Not for nothing some the elementary school teacher ask pupils to work in copy-books not with the handle, but a simple pencil. School days take its course, and here the handle "write-erase" already saves the child from need to rewrite the whole pages of homeworks. And the examination does not cause a panic attack too – it is possible to correct an error so that the teacher also will not notice. What are the erased handles attractive by? Certainly, an opportunity to correct an error or a slip without consequences. That is the main reasons are a fear of a mistake, shame for carelessly performed work. If your child refuses to write with a usual ball pen and asks that which can be erased – think; perhaps, you are too strict with the child, or he has too exacting and authoritative teacher.
View of teachers of the erased handles
There are main reasons for which teachers oppose the erased handles: - Carelessness, negligence. By the letter the erased handle pupils cease to watch accuracy and spelling (everything can be corrected immediately), written works become negligent. Besides, children often write with strong pressing. Therefore it is not possible to correct an error completely all the same. - Impossibility to trace typical mistakes. The teacher loses an opportunity to see what the child was mistaken in, therefore, cannot help him in due time. Of course, there are single mistakes and slips by carelessness. But if the school student makes the same mistakes, the teacher can organize additional work on their elimination.
To reveal typical mistakes, to understand their reasons and not to allow any more - it is more important, than just to hide mistakes from the teacher.
- Zatrudnennost of diagnostics of speech violations. Parents should remember that a number of mistakes can indicate presence at the child of logopedic problems, in particular, of a dysgraphia. The teacher, having paid attention to characteristic mistakes, will recommend to parents to address the expert. Early diagnostics of violations of a written language will allow to correct them in time and by that to save the child from further difficulties. It is useful to use temporarily erased handles to children with the increased uneasiness: the child gradually ceases to be afraid of mistakes, it becomes more confident in the forces. Over time need for such handle disappears.