There are various ways in which practical elements can be brought into the system of education efficiently. Successful personalities from different fields can be invited for guest lectures and narrate to the students their experience at the workplace. Industrial visits can be conducted for students.
Category: Education
How to add Value to Classroom Learning Sessions?
Our kids end up spending a lot of their time in classrooms, don’t they? Obviously, the time spent in the classroom is one of the essentials of our education system. But as parents, there is something that we should ask ourselves. How productive are these sessions turning out to be for our kids? Is there something that we can do to ensure that our kids make the most out of the time they spend in classrooms.
Let’s learn from our Mistakes!
Whatever might be the reason, it is your job as a parent to figure it out. Get to the root of it and help your kid overcome the inhibitions to own up to his mistakes. This can start by letting your kid understand that mistakes are natural and that whatever the case may be, trying to disown one’s own actions is just an act of cowardice.
How effective is online learning for kids?
Remember the time you were a kid? At that point in time did you ever imagine in your wildest dreams that 10-year-old kids would have to sit in front of screens to learn their subjects? Well, that is where we are today. Online learning is now not some science fiction premise, it is something that is being practised and is gaining ground. But as parents, a lot of us are still a bit sceptical about letting our kids handle the online world and electronic gadgets.
The countdown starts NOW – How to rev up your preparations?
PSLE is around the corner. If your kid is appearing for the PSLE this year then in all likelihood you would have been putting in a great amount of effort along with him/her for quite some time now. So, how’s the mood in your house right now?
Art and Mother Tongue – How are they connected?
So how do you get your kids to learn their mother tongue? Let’s be honest. That is going to be one dreadful task for them and us. Most kids and youngsters have grown so accustomed to English that they hardly use their mother tongue for any form of communication. Imposing a language on them is not a welcome move. This is the problem with making these languages a part of the school curriculum and marking their performances.
Let’s Speak Well!
There have been few men like Churchill who have been both popular as well as controversial. He had a speech impediment and used to stutter. While he was 29, Churchill stood up to give a speech in Parliament.
How can we teach our kids to think intelligently?
Good questions can emanate only when you have a vibrant mind. The best way to attain such a state of mind is to inculcate the habit of reading. Reading is to the mind what a whetstone is to a sword.
Getting Over the Back-to-School Blues!
Almost all kids have dreams about their future, about the professions that they would like to take up once they grow up. Speak to them about how they need to perform well in school to make their dreams come true. Fill all that in with a bit of motivation.
School’s out, how to cope with holiday homework?
The promise of rewards always makes people perform better. Kids are programmed in no different manner. Let’s throw in a few small gifts to maximize their output. It could be something like an extra scoop of ice cream for every three straight days of meeting the homework target without fail.
