academic achievement in children

8/13/2019 Academic Achievement in Children

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The goals of the workshop is:

To help parents understand the meaning of academachievement.

To understand your expectations from your child.

To share information about how parents can support childs learning.

Welcome Parents!


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Small adjustments in the way PARENTS act and think go way in determining the future trajectory of the child.

A well rounded child is a consequencenot the goal - carefully planned parenting.

And almost all of it is DIY

Academic Success begins atHome.


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Some questions to discuss;

How have families changed?

How has education changed?

What about community change?

What do you know about the role of parents in the

educational process

HOW THINGS HAVE CHANGED


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Disconnections at the Family level

Little mealtime and playtime together

Techno-interference( Internet, ipads, etc)

Disconnects at the School level

Student engagement

Class size, Accountability standards

Disconnects at the Community level

Community involvement, mentors, role models

A world of disconnects


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So how do we go about achievall this some thoughts


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This is a twist on the Rote Style learning. It is rote, but roteintent. Rote with an creative element. Example learning numbers, you do not ask the child to simply memorize thnumbers, but ask him/her to write it down in a piece of pcolor each box, simply children will remember the numbmuch easier than memorizing them.

Make a song or rhymes

Blackboard example.

Conscious Learning


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Spending Time is not synonmous with actual invovlmechilds early life. You could be very involved and may nospending much time with the childheres how

A child is acutely aware of his parents approach to theirHence there is a lot of passive learning in a childs mind looking at the parents go about their work.

Do not confuse physical proximwith collaborative involvement.


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Research shows a childs mind lights up with visual refere

Describing a method involves two processes for the childto decode the verbiage and then to act. Inefficient.

A visual memory is a powerful tool with the child to comfor the lack of living experience the child has.

Visualize then visualize some m


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Research has time and again showed the Winners Curvery real phenomenon in children.

The effort a child puts is what should be recognized. Notresult. Not the innate ability of the child.

As parents we need to focus a lot more on the effort a c

inrather than putting the fear of failure in the childs m

The Effort is to recognized. Not tresult.


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We attempt to put the ideas described into activities to child at this very formative age.

The structure is purposefully kept flexible to match the chdisposition

Active feedback to the parent so that the process we in

here continues at the childs home.

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