midterm exam results come out. How is your child doing? Every time the exam results come out, there are many happy and sad families. Parents with ideal grades are happy, children are happy, parents with poor grades are anxious, and children are impetuous.
Some parents may say that my child is very serious in his studies, he is not idle on weekends, and has been in tutoring classes. It is very hard, why are his grades still not ideal, and he is even better than his classmates who have not attended tutoring classes? We must be clear that tutoring classes are used for tutoring and not guarantee high scores. They can "add icing on the cake, but they cannot provide timely assistance." If we want our children to have good academic performance, we must first understand what learning is.
I am also a high school parent, and I have been thinking about this. In recent years, through the study of children's development psychology , coupled with the practice in recent years, I have found that learning and doing anything is the same, and it has its underlying logic. Only by understanding this underlying logic first can we do a good job in learning. So what is the underlying logic of learning?
I think my underlying logic is that learning is not just about learning, but more importantly about learning, that is, practice. Just like driving, we need to learn driving theory first and then get in the car to practice. Only in this way can we truly learn to drive. The same goes for swimming. No matter how much theoretical knowledge you learn, you will never be able to learn to swim without going into the water.
Learning is a much more complicated thing than them, and it requires learning first and then learning. The school also arranges this way. Listening to the teacher in class is learning, and the teacher will definitely leave homework after class. This is practice. Primary school students generally follow the teacher's steps, and there is no big problem with their grades, but after entering junior high school, especially after entering high school, if they only complete the homework assigned by the teacher, it is still difficult to achieve excellent grades. So the children need to spend more time studying.
Indirect learning:
Credits are direct learning and indirect learning. Listening to the teacher in class, learning the experience of predecessors belongs to indirect learning, and listening to the teacher in tutoring classes is also indirect learning. This learning method has obvious "short, flat and fast" effect, but it deprives the children of the happiness they experience personally, only learn explicit knowledge, and does not improve students' abilities. The grades improve quickly and continue to go on quickly. Because I have learned new knowledge, my child can’t do it anymore and I need to continue to sign up for classes. This is why children who sign up for classes always sign up for classes. Of course, some teachers will teach children how to learn and help them improve their abilities without having to learn for a long time.
There is also a way of learning: direct learning, called "activate your talent", which refers to mastering knowledge points through students' continuous trial and error and summary. Doing so can not only experience the joy of being satisfied with the desire for knowledge, but also improve their learning ability and find a learning method that suits them. This learning method improves grades slowly, but it is relatively stable, and it is not easy to go on once it gets up. And the stamina will be more strong.
As for which method is better, it depends on the child’s personal situation, which varies from person to person, but no matter which method is adopted, as long as you learn it will be better than not. Some parents have questions again, why their children understand the teacher's explanation, but they can't do it once they do the questions, especially when they go to high school, "you can learn it once, but you can get rid of it once you do it." The reason is that they only learn but don't learn it.
The first level of practice: Ineffective exercise:
Some children do homework to complete homework and do questions to do the questions. The final result is to pick out all the things they know, or not. Such exercises have no effect. We call them invalid exercises.
The second level: effectively practice
. Some children will be very serious in the process of doing homework and can learn by themselves first. If they really don’t know how to do it, they will ask teachers and classmates the next day. In short, they will learn all the content of homework, including the exercises they usually do. I call it effective exercises. Children who study like this generally have no poor grades.
The third level: daily graduation + acquisition of
There are also a few children. Not only do these things, they can also do better. For example, one of my nephews has been a top student since childhood, and has always been among the top in Hengzhong. I asked him what good learning methods he had, and he said "day graduation". Every day, he not only completes his homework seriously, but also consolidates the knowledge he does not master on the same day and conducts expansion exercises until he truly masters this knowledge point, and basically he can answer it no matter how he asks the questions. I call this the highest level of practice--acquisition. If you can digest what you learned on that day every day, there will be no leftover problems. Can you get a high score in the exam? What I fear most is to learn less today and learn less tomorrow, and over time, more and more will be added.
During the learning process, children are destined to have different learning methods and different degrees of participation in exercises. Learning and learning are just a process, and learning is the ultimate result. There is no shortcut to learning. If the process is more complicated, the result will be better. If the process is simpler, the result may be worse. After all, only efforts will pay off. Let the child take action from now on. I believe that as long as the child understands the underlying logic of learning, he will definitely achieve ideal results through his own efforts.