Eleven Tips to a Successful School Year
As Dr. Brad Johnson explained, "Culture is the sum of our everyday actions, both deliberate and incidental, that shape the environment, relationships, and outcomes within the school." It is vital for parents to help establish the home-school connection and school community before a student begins kindergarten. Similarly, it is essential to maintain the school community relationships, communication, volunteerism, as well as to participate in the school neighborhood throughout the elementary, middle, and high school years of their child.
Parents often ask, "What can I do?" The tips below are a general guideline to making for a school year with less bad stress and more learning and good relationships.
1. Be a model. The most important action is to role model the importance of education. Take a college course, workshop, or extension class.
2. Review assignments every night. Modeling and encouraging children to look again at assignments each night helps commit course material to memory. Review also helps counter the curve of forgetting, the slipping out of information from the brain over time.
3. Read to and with your child on a nightly basis.
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4. Help your child develop appropriate behavior. Learning that happiness is the key to success is essential to promote lifelong learning. Additionally, learning to delay gratification is an essential step in this process.
5. Help your child develop good organizational skills and effective study habits. Students have tremendous access to study tips, educational advice, and answers to assignments. The Internet has a wealth of information.
6. Supervise media usage: computer, the Internet, cell phone, movies, et cetera. See more at commonsensemedia.org.
7. Kids need to feel a part of their family on a daily basis, and dinnertime is a terrific way to accomplish this feeling. Running out of things to talk about? Start telling your kids some family history. Research shows that telling stories about your shared past creates strong and secure emotional bonds, which directly impacts how well families are functioning. Turns out that kids who knew a lot about their family history learned it at dinnertime.
8. Every night, yes every night, have your child empty his or her backpack in front of you. Many students forget or wish to forget about assignments, permission slips, and notifications. Before a child goes to bed they also need to repack all needed items into their backpack. Waiting to go through a backpack or waiting to pack it in the morning before school is not effective.
9. Monitor grades online once a week. Support the rules and standards established by the teacher, school, and district. If the policy is no credit for late work, then do not complain or beg the teacher for credit. Letting a child earn a bad grade for multiple late assignments is a natural outcome to his or her choices.
10. Cell phones are not a need. Cell phones are disruptive to your child and other children in school, the teacher, and distract from getting assignments finished at night. Cell phone use and texting prohibit students from getting good amounts of sleep. Although, you may wish to purchase an emergency cell phone for your child. These cell phones connect with emergency services.
11. Parent. Parents and guardians can be of great support at home, in the school community, and be of great encouragement to the progress of their children. Unfortunately, some students must be their own biggest cheerleaders.
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