Whenever the school season begins, the busiest people are always moms and dads. They not only have to help their children with all the matters related to the start of school, but also help their children choose suitable interest classes and cram schools.
In recent years, various training courses have sprung up around us. Whenever parents pass by the school gate, a large stack of advertising leaflets for training courses will appear in their hands. Looking at these thick leaflets that can be used as Yellow Pages, many parents will feel a headache.
How to choose interest classes and cram schools for children has become a big problem for parents. Of course, before we enroll our children in a training class, we must clearly understand the purpose of participating in the training class. First, what is missing, what is made up for?
When parents choose interest classes and cram schools for their children, the first thing they should consider is what areas their children are weak in. Because for children, the improvement of academic performance is a top priority.
Some parents, when choosing a training class, like to do a "family bucket", including English, Chinese, math, physics and chemistry. In fact, this is wrong, because children do not have so much energy and time to complete this training class. Secondly, what affects children's performance is actually the weakest subject. Such blind registration will not only fail to help children improve their performance, but will also distract children's energy, which is not worth the gain.
I wonder if you have heard of the barrel effect? What affects the amount of water a wooden barrel can hold is the length of the shortest board.
If the scores in each subject are compared to the wooden boards that make up a barrel, the amount of water in the barrel is compared to the child's total score. So what affects a child's overall score is actually the length of the shortest board, that is, the quality of the weakest subject.
If the purpose of enrolling in a training class is to improve your grades, then tutoring on your "shortcomings" will be more effective than improving your grades in strong subjects. Second, if you are interested, you must cultivate it
In addition to training classes to improve subject performance, many parents have turned their attention to training classes that specialize in cultivating children's interests.
With the improvement of education level, nowadays, the performance gap between outstanding students is getting smaller and smaller. In order to make their children more competitive when they are promoted from primary school to primary school or junior high school, parents have shifted the "battlefield" for admission to hobbies. Having the same talent will give their children extra points when they enter secondary school. Quite a few.
However, once a child has completed the entrance examination, these interests that originally cost a lot of money and energy to cultivate will be categorically blocked by parents on the grounds that they affect their learning, or even give up.
Learning itself is a matter of combining work and rest. It is very cruel to let children give up their hobbies for the sake of learning. As a parent, not only do you not need to stop your children's interests and hobbies, you should also actively cultivate them. Third, cultivate "ability" instead of getting high scores
Many parents believe that the purpose of learning is to get high scores so that children can get high scores in every subject and then get a good exam. School.
It is true that test scores are indeed very important. It is one of the indicators for judging the performance of students. But if you regard getting high scores as the purpose of learning, then this idea is wrong.
The main purpose of learning is to cultivate children's various abilities, rather than making children become test machines.
Just like mathematics, the process of solving mathematics problems is far more important than the final answer. If your steps are correct but the final result is wrong, you can get most of the points. However, if your final result is correct but the steps to answer the question are wrong, you can still only get the measly 1 or 2 points.
The steps represent that the child is thinking mathematically, and the answer is just a natural product of the child thinking mathematically.
In addition, after clarifying the purpose of signing up for the training class, parents also need to adjust their mentality. First, don’t follow the trend and compare.
Many parents like to ask around and learn more when applying for training courses.
But what they were asking about was not that a certain training class was good, but that Sister Wang’s daughter signed up for a jazz dance class last year and won a municipal third prize for children, and Brother Li’s son signed up for one. In the English speaking class, I won a second prize for singing an English song in the school art performance. Listening to these "success stories", these parents send their children to interest classes and cram schools regardless, hoping that the same success will befall their children.
A common problem among these parents is that if other people’s children learn well, then their own children will also learn well. But they forget that every child is a unique angel, and the same success is difficult to copy. Second, don’t impose your will on your children
When choosing a training class, parents must listen to their children’s opinions. Some parents never ask what their children like, but choose for their children based on their own judgment. This is especially true when it comes to the selection of some hobby training classes.
Parents think piano is good, so they enroll their children in piano classes. Parents think calligraphy is good, so they enroll their children in calligraphy classes. But when a child tells his parents that he prefers playing drums and painting, the parents say, "I am an adult, listen to me."
However, children are the main subjects of learning.
Therefore, parents should listen more to their children’s opinions when choosing training classes. Don’t let your children be filled with tolerance and compromise during their learning process. Third, don’t rush for success, focus on results
I once knew a mother who, like most mothers today, regards her children’s education as the top priority of the entire family. When the baby was only 3 years old, this mother had already prepared the child's education courses for the next three years. A crash course in oral English for 3-year-olds, a crash course in piano for 4-year-olds, and a crash course in calligraphy for 5-year-olds...
Looking at the list of study plans, I asked in confusion: "Why are they all crash courses?" But there was still a question in my mind, "Spoken English, piano, or calligraphy, can you really learn it in just one year?"
This mother looked at me with doubts. With a hint of pride, she said: "Ordinary classes teach too slowly, and you may not be able to complete a lesson in a few years. But this crash course is different. Although it is a bit more expensive, it has quick results. Just talk about this piano, They promised me that my child will be able to play at least one Croatian rhapsody in one year when he takes the kindergarten exam, and he will also be able to play some calligraphy. "
Look at it. This mother looked so excited, and I shook my head speechlessly. In fact, this mother is not "alone" because there are countless parents like her who are pursuing maximizing "learning efficiency".
However, such learning efficiency is not beneficial to children at all. Learning is a step-by-step process. However, the crash course skips the process and directly stuffs the results into the children's brains. Can this kind of learning still be called learning?
After parents have adjusted their mentality, it’s time to choose a training class. So what kind of interest classes and cram schools are the best? First, the teachers should be good
Teachers are the core of interest classes and cram schools. All parents hope that their children can improve their abilities and performance through training classes.
However, many teachers in training institutions on the market today are only college students. It may not be a problem for such teachers to help children with their homework, but they must improve their children's grades and abilities. But there is something not enough to see.
Excellent teachers not only have rich teaching experience, but also have unique teaching methods. They can find the most suitable method for children and transfer teaching content to children's memories and minds. Second, the teaching hardware conditions are good
In addition to teachers, education also pays attention to the teaching hardware conditions. A good hardware condition can not only help children improve their learning efficiency, but also reflect the quality of the training institution from the side. The strength of the school and the strength of the teaching staff.
The better the teaching hardware, the richer the training institution is, and the more capable it is of recruiting better teachers.
When parents choose interest classes and cram schools for their children, they should clarify the purpose of attending the training class, adjust their mentality, and then choose a good training class for their children so that their children can The new semester can have a good start.