Strategies for Your Child’s Success from Top Principals

Examinations are quickly approaching and it is important that your child is well prepared for academic success. Here are a few smart ideas from the top educators:

• Math & Reading Tips

With some simply mind exercises and games, you can nurture our child to be as smart as Sherlock Holmes: someone that thinks in a logical manner and solves problem step-by-step – such as math equations. Here is how: play the board games which exercises the left part of the brain, like Clue, Dominoes, Monopoly, backgammon, Mastermind, rummy, Othello, etc. 

When your child is reading something, you should try and stir their curiosity and creativity about the things that they are reading, suggests the teacher at the playgroup in Borivali West. Ask them what they like about that book. You want your child to connect, visualize, predict, and question – all the critical thinking skills that are used in schools. 

• Homework & Test Smarts

Parents should avoid haggling with their kids over getting better grades at school by drawing up contracts with them. Together, agree on some goals, a specific length of time to finish them, along with consequences and rewards. Your kid would appreciate being treated the same as a young adult, says the teachers at the IGCSE schools in Dahisar West.

Provide your child with a timer to help them stay productive and use time efficiently when doing homework. They may spend twenty minutes on one subject, and once the buzzer goes off, they may decide if they want to move on to some other lesson or continue with the same.