Modern parents have widespread educational anxiety, which is an important characteristic of modern parents. Analyzing and researching this issue of educational anxiety is of great significance and role in sorting out education.
The main manifestations of modern parents’ educational anxiety
1. Parents have signed up a lot of extracurricular cultural tutoring for their children. Such as learning Chinese, learning Mathematical Olympiad, learning English...
2. Parents also signed up their children for various talent and interest courses. Such as music, art, calligraphy, taekwondo...
3. Parents usually collect various school materials. Parents should first check which school is good so that they can send their children to this school when their children enter higher education. Many parents even buy study places at high prices.
4. Many parents in rural areas even take out loans to buy houses in the city for the sake of their children's study, so as to secure a place for their children to study in the city.
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To talk about the aspects in which children are anxious about their children's education, there are really too many. In order for their children to enter a good school, they keep making up classes, looking for connections, and shopping...
Why are parents so anxious about their children's education?
In order for the children to have a good development, it can be said to be the common wish of parents all over the world. Everyone wants their children to be well and hope that their children will become dragons and phoenixes. Because of the existence of this kind of family affection, there is naturally anxiety about children's education. In addition to this inner caring, parents draw various lessons from what they see and experience.
1. In the life experience of the older generation, those who studied well in the past generally live better now. Even those who live a good life feel that only by studying well can they have greater room for development.
2. In our cultural tradition, there are aphorisms such as "Everything is inferior, only reading is high", which are warning and reminding our modern parents.
3. Parents feel various competitive pressures in their own work, so parents realize the importance of learning. Just naturally convey this sense of urgency to the children.
4. The development of modern technologies such as artificial intelligence and various high-tech technological innovations have changed our real life, allowing everyone to experience a huge difference in lifestyle in recent years. . There is a kind of tension in my heart.
5. In order to recruit students, major educational institutions have put forward various enrollment pain points, stimulating parents’ educational anxiety. "Children cannot be allowed to lose at the starting line." It is not clear what the child's real starting line is. As soon as parents hear this, they think they need to learn more about the school's relevant courses, which is used by most tutoring institutions.
How to alleviate parents’ educational anxiety?
1. Education must grasp the fundamentals and educate on the most critical content.
Many teachers and reporters have had an in-depth understanding of the top students in the college entrance examination every year, and found that most of the children's excellent results are not because of their clever minds, but because of these top students. Have very strong self-control ability. Children's learning problems are under their own control. They should tighten up when they should and relax when they should. This allows the children to exert their own abilities.
So, when we educate our children, we do not sign them up for any courses, but guide them to arrange their own learning plans, and effectively guide and supervise the improvement of their learning control abilities.
If you ignore this point, no matter how many study tutoring classes you sign up for, the final effect will be unsatisfactory. The results of education are not determined by the learning content, but by the child's personal learning quality and learning thinking.
2. Education must grasp the fundamentals and learn to focus on key learning content.
Learning content is the externalization of our thinking content. We must guide children to learn around the key points in thinking.
Based on Bloom's cognitive hierarchy tower, we also divide children's thinking development into six dimensions: memory, understanding, application, analysis, evaluation, and innovation.
The training of memory ability is to guide children to memorize more classics and the content required to be memorized in the text.
Especially children under fifth or sixth grade should seize the time to memorize more and memorize the most basic content in various subjects.
Comprehension ability is based on reading training. Through a large amount of reading, we can promote children's brain cognition, improve children's comprehensive and correct understanding of the world and thoughts they live in, and help children improve their understanding ability.
Application ability is to apply the knowledge learned to the content to be practiced. In addition to examinations, this kind of application is more of a practical application in life. To make children truly interested in the knowledge of a subject, they also need to be allowed to do various physical and chemical experiments.
Analytical ability is the transition of thinking from image thinking to abstract thinking. Abstract thinking is to use language as the most basic unit to think. Therefore, if we want to train our analytical ability, we must start from the use of language, such as speaking, writing and other forms.
Evaluation ability is the training of internal reflection ability, as well as the training of critical thinking ability. You must learn to distinguish whether a sentence is someone else's opinion or a fact. You must learn to analyze other people's opinions and find out what's right and what's wrong.
The training of innovative ability is to train innovative thinking. In this aspect, the Western education system does better than us. They use project research methods to guide children to conduct scientific experiments, look up information, do surveys, write papers, make reports, etc., and train children to conduct scientific research.