text: Zhang Yanwen
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I went to middle grade. I have been preparing for the exam for a long time or have scored more than 80 points. What's going on? A large number of corrected test papers have a vicious cycle day after day. How can we help children? How you view the exam depends on the attitude of your parents. Four problems that bother parents of middle and senior grades will help you understand effective countermeasures to accompany your children to face exams.
Q: After the third grade, the test scores fell straight, and the lower grades easily got more than 90 points. After the third grade, I studied for a long time or more, but I still had more than 80 points. What's going on?
A: There is less learning content in the lower grades, and the teacher will practice repeatedly. There are more social and natural subjects in the mistress, and the content has also become more. Children need time to adapt. When the junior 4th is transferred to the junior 5th, most children's scores will also fall. This is when he is adapting to new learning, so don't rush to send him to tutoring.
Parents might as well seize this opportunity to change and tell their children that because they have grown up, their learning has become more challenging. They should also modify their reading methods and accompany him to find out what steps they have done less so that they may not understand when they encounter questions, or they may not understand them at all.
Xu Yujian, tutoring director of Nangang Primary School in Taipei City, reminds that senior grades should have more judgment, thinking, and comprehensive learning. If children only know how to memorize, their grades will decline.
Q: Should children schedule their review progress before the exam?
A: There is no need to deliberately arrange the review progress, but it can create a reading atmosphere for preparation for the exam.
The children who went to Anqin class have written a lot of test papers. When they get home, they just have snacks and chat with their children. Even if you don’t go to Anqin class, the week before the section exam is almost the school’s small exam review week. As long as the child studies with the progress of the small exam, he can achieve the review effect. Over-reviewing can easily ruin your learning appetite.
creates an environment for preparing for the exam. Chen Wenru, a teacher at Zhuangjing Primary School in Kaohsiung City, did the same thing. The day before the exam, the fun activities of playing electric and watching movies at home will be suspended first, and the whole family will read quietly. Let the child know that his family cannot help him study, but he can be with him.
If the child does not attend the An-Keep class and the school exams are not frequent, he can be encouraged to arrange a reading schedule and supplemented by the market evaluation. He can choose units that meet the examination progress to check whether he has read the key points, which is also more at ease.
The ability to plan your study time will become more important to junior high school. But it cannot be done at once. You must accompany your child through several cycles of "plan → execution → review" before he can learn a better and suitable method.
What is more important than review before the exam is to review after the exam, helping children understand the questions they don’t know in the exam, or adjust their learning methods. This is the purpose of “evaluation”.
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Q: My child's grades are middle and lower, and he always fails in the exam. His original homework, coupled with a large number of corrected test papers, squeezes his study time at night, making him unable to do well in the exam the next day. There is a vicious cycle day after day, and the amount of homework is getting more and more like a snowball. How can I help him?
A: If the teacher does not take into account individual differences and uses traditional methods to require the child to repeatedly correct the test papers, it will cause a great burden for him. Not only will it not help him in learning, but it also takes up time for study and leisure.
And you understand very well that writing it will not help his study and exams any time it is written.
suggests that parents can discuss with the teacher to express their children's efforts first, and parents will also help him, but he is really slow to learn and has many mistakes. When correcting and writing, it is stipulated that one wrong person can write three times. Can he just write one wrong person once? Or can you use other homework to offset the penalty? Fight for more favorable ways for children.
When communicating with teachers, be polite and sincere in attitude to avoid confrontation between parents and teachers.
Q: The child’s test paper is full of absurd test questions and unreasonable answers. How do I explain to the child and communicate with the teacher?
A: You will definitely encounter absurd test questions and unreasonable answers. At this time, tell your child your thoughts: "I think it is unreasonable because..." But try not to criticize the teacher: "But mom knows what the teacher thinks..." In this case, the score has no meaning at all, and thinking and truth are much more important than the score.
But children can still be encouraged to express themselves. If the child is old enough, encourage him to solve the problem and strive for scores. "If you can discuss with the teacher, many students will also thank you. Because the teacher may not know that the question he has asked is a little problem. If you ask, the teacher will appreciate you very much, just like the mother will appreciate you very much." He just clapped his hands for him, and the result is not important.
If the child is young (middle and lower grades), he will be afraid of asking the teacher to discuss. You can contact the teacher verbally orally or write to the home school to convey it.
After the child goes to junior high school, parents need less intervention. First, the child does not like his parents' school life and is involved too much, and second, it is difficult to change the quality of the test questions.
Remember, no matter what response you make, you just need to be responsible to your child. The teacher’s response can be skipped, and don’t make the child embarrassed in the middle for the sake of right or wrong. The most important thing is the child.
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