After the summer holidays a new school year begins. This situation can be very stressful for parents, especially if their son or daughter has not obtained good academic results so far. If that is your case, read on and you will learn how to help your children start the year off right.
When classes start after the long summer, most of the students are very clueless and, when they realize it, it is time to take the first exams. However, with a little organization, these types of situations can be perfectly controlled, and children can achieve better results.
The first secret: anticipate your child's needs
No one knows your son or daughter better than you, therefore, it is essential that you know the teaching team that will work with him. In this way, you can get an idea of which teachers fit better with their way of being and learning style and which ones not so much.
When you find teachers your son or daughter can bump into, what you should do is try to get to know that teacher better so you can get to him. He may not be a good communicator, but he is very concerned about his students, or perhaps he is too demanding of himself and that is why he puts pressure on his students.
Be that as it may, try to see what is positive, because this will ensure you establish a more positive way of communication with any teacher.
Secret number two: inform your child's teachers of his needs
Whatever the condition of your son or daughter, you know that there are learning methods to which he responds better than others. Well, when you find a teacher with whom you suspect that he will experience more difficulties, do everything possible to make him understand how your child's mind works. In this way, you will be avoiding many misunderstandings.
A good idea is to take the teacher materials that your child has done in previous years and that demonstrate their worth as a student. In this way you can help them see your children with a more open look and change any stereotype that has been formed by the way your son or daughter behaves in the classroom.
The third secret: Prepare a school adaptation plan
If you already know that it is difficult for your child to become familiar with the routine of returning to class, you can facilitate his adaptation helping him with metacognitive questions. What a buzzword, right? Well, this is nothing more than asking questions that make you realize that there is a routine within the apparent initial disorder that lives in the first two months of school.
The reality is that there is no such disorder, it is simply a set of new routines to acquire. So if you ask him questions like "Do you already have math homework"?; And, despite the fact that two weeks have passed, he says no, perhaps it would be a good time to talk to his teachers to exchange impressions.
If you are looking for solutions to each undecided answer that your child gives you about his studies, you will surely be able to help him organize himself better and by the time the exams arrive, at least he will be more prepared than usual.
Well, these are just some ideas, but I assure you that if you put them into practice you will notice how your son or daughter begins to show more interest in learning. It is only a matter of planning the actions you are going to carry out and putting them into practice one after the other in a systematic way.
Well, I would like you to implement these tips and tell me the results you get. So we can help each other.
