How to Teach Your Child to do Their Best in School

Here are tips for parents and teachers on teaching children to do their best in school:

1. Have your child participate in class discussion. One of the major keys to motivation is the active involvement of children in their own hearing.
2. Many children have a need to have fun in active ways — in other words, they need to be noisy and excited. Rather than always avoiding or suppressing these needs, design an educational activity that fulfills them.
3. Make learning visual. Use drawings, diagrams, pictures, charts, graphs, bulleted lists, even three-dimensional objects you can bring to class to help students anchor the idea to an image.
4. Use positive emotions to enhance learning and motivation.
5. Remember that energy sells. Being energetic in your teaching is a motivating factor in itself, adding energy to the ideas you want to convey will further enhance learning and commitment to the ideas.
6. Convince them they can succeed, no matter what domestic concerns or current financial situation may be.
7. Arouse their curiosity. Present new lessons in a way that they would want to learn more.
8. Encourage self-expression.

9. Encourage them to ask questions when they are stumped for clues.
10. Foster peer relations. Students learn better when they get along with one another.
11. Make them aware of their rights in school.
12. Encourage them to make use of the school facilities, like the computer room and the library.
13. Let students see their success. Wall charts with stars are one way to help students recognize their own success.
14. If you practice active listening, the kids will soon understand that you care about them (which, of course, we know you do).
15. Use merit cards. Make one on which you write a glowing compliment for every homework or project done well.
16. Give a “reading treat”. Instead of assigning a title, let the child pick his own book to read for a change.
17. Get students to do a “scavenger hunt” when gathering data on current events. This beats merely perusing the newspaper.
18. Use PowerPoint presentations every now and then in lieu of the standard chalk-talk in the classroom or when helping them with homework. This method grabs their attention.
19. In turn, let the student make the PowerPoint presentation. This not only will get the students involved but even weak students love to create PowerPoint files. The student learns so much about the subject and the technology of creating the PowerPoint. 20. FOCUS = VISION + GOALS + ATTITUDE + ACTION. These five words will help students grow up to be healthy, productive, caring adults with a good self-image and a positive outlook toward their future.

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