Helping Your Children To Be Successful Students
here are some very easy ways you can help your child remember maths, spelling, and reading skills and knowledge they have learnt. Recent brain research proves how important these ideas are, but even before research told them it was a good idea good teachers and learners have always used them.
Homework needs to be done! Homework helps your teen learn and remember. Getting your teen to sit down and actually concentrate on completing homework can be a challenge - and I encourage you to face that challenge with me over the next few weeks. Why should your teen do homework? Recent educational research shows that… Continue reading Why does your teen do homework? To learn and remember.
Reading, writing, and doing maths: How not to help your child. Think back to when you were a child and being told that you would like something you had already got to dislike. Do you remember how annoying and unhelpful those talks were? You didn't believe them. You wished they would stop trying to convince… Continue reading How to help your child so reading, writing, and maths becomes fun.
Emotions help your child learn and remember faster. When our brain becomes emotionally involved as we learn, it is stimulated to make more patterns, which help us to learn and remember more easily and faster. Joe Dispenza wrote an article which has lots of useful information on how our brain works. Strong reactions created… Continue reading Emotions are useful: How to learn and remember
"This is easy, my child should remember it.” When you first start helping your child learn and remember skills and knowledge they need, you may be impatient that your child quickly masters what you are teaching them, and feel deep disappointment when they don’t. You might notice that you have impatient and judgmental thoughts about… Continue reading Small steps climb the mountain: Chunking helps your child learn and remember.
When they use only their ears to learn and remember reading, spelling, Mathematics skills, children learn and remember very slowly. Unfortunately we adults often talk too much when teaching our children reading, spelling, and Maths skills.We often use a lot more than three simple sentences to explain something and our children's minds go somewhere else,… Continue reading Learning and remembering new skills and information is easy: Use the senses
How to make learning and remembering new skills and information easier Most of us have found that learning new skills and information, then remembering those same skills and information, a slow and difficult process. Learning and then remembering what we have learnt has taken up too much of our time and energy in the past,… Continue reading Learning and remembering new skills and information is easy. Connect!
Learn reading, spelling and maths skills faster by making connections. The more connections (or memory pathways) your child makes, the better they will remember new information when learning to read, spell, or do maths. The new memory pathways your child is making need their full attention and the support of already existing pathways to grow… Continue reading Making connections – the key to remembering reading and spelling words, and maths facts
Revise, revise, revise! Over-learning, rote learning, practise, and revision are all words that have gone a little out of fashion the last years - to our children's detriment. The longer I work with children, the more I become firmly convinced that regular revision and practise of basic skills enables children to easily master and use… Continue reading Keep revising basic skills with your child
REVISE, REVISE, REVISE! Give your child a most important gift: The chance to revise their reading, writing, and Mathematics skills. Do not take for granted that the reading, writing, and Mathematics skills your child learnt yesterday, a few minutes ago, or last week, are remembered. Always revise reading, writing, and Mathematics ideas and skills until your… Continue reading Revise, Revise, Revise
Families as Coaches 