How to Tie Your Shoes Essay Example

Being able to properly tie your shoes is a life skill that every child should have. For an active child, an untied shoe can be a safety concern and could lead to injury from tripping on the laces or rolling an ankle. Also, in today’s classroom it is common to have over 20 students in a class. If every student constantly needs assistance with tying their shoes, it can be both burdensome and time consuming for the teachers. So what constitutes a properly tied shoe? In the simplest terms, a properly tied shoe is a shoe that stays tied while you are wearing it and is easily untied when you want to take it off. While there are numerous ways to meet this definition of a properly tied a shoe, for the purposes of this assessment we are only going to focus on the most common method, known as the “standard shoelace knot”, or "around the tree shoelace knot" or simply the "bowknot" (see the diagram below, which demonstrates 6 steps that are needed to properly tie this know). It is our belief that if students can master the standard shoelace knot, that they can easily master other variations. The goal of this assessment is to measure whether student have achieved mastery of the standard shoe lace knot. We will first learn the standard shoelace knot as a class, using the diagram as a guide. When students feel that they have mastered the knot, they can ask to be tested. The assessment has four parts. For the first part, the student will be able to use diagram for assistance. Step 1: Starting with both shoes untied, the student will be asked to tie the standard knot on one of the shoes. They must stop after each step and show the teacher. If they have done it correctly, the student will continue on to the next step, until each of the 6 steps has been done. Once the knot is completed, the teacher will inspect it and see if it is properly tied. If it is not done correctly they can try again for up to 3 attempts. If they cannot tie the shoe after three attempts or it takes longer