Learning Blog

A question of identity – Can you as a parent be a teacher and help your children learn?

Many a parent thinks that the role of helping their children learn should be left to the teacher, after all they will say “I’m not a teacher”. This need not be the case and as a parent with all your years of experience you are in fact an expert, you know far, far, more than your children.

Anthony Robbins says that “what we consider possible or impossible is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.”

How can you be a teacher to your children?

You can help your children learn outside the classroom, you can therefore be a teacher to your children.

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Better questions, better answers, better life – Questions are the answer!

Children are great at asking questions and you as a parent can be the expert at giving them the bigger view by putting questions that are relevant to the subject or cicumstances . Putting questions to your children is a chance for you to guide them to create the amazing habit of continuously asking better questions.

The habit of better questions leads to better answers, better feelings and better motivation for when they are learning.

Are questions the answer to better learning?

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Make it fun then you’ve won – How to motivate your children so that they want to learn

For the first part of their lives children will spend between 14 and 18 years at school studying and learning. With so much time dedicated to learning and with the result of this education determining what children do with their lives; it is massively important that they are motivated to learn.

We are all motivated to do something if we enjoy doing it, if we find it pleasurable. If pleasure can be linked to learning then your children will want to learn.

It’s as simple as this:

If your children enjoy learning then they will be motivated to learn more and if they learn more they will be better able and set to achieve in school and in life.

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Emotions are linked to the ability to learn so how do you find the techniques and activities to help you?

Did you know that there is a strong link between emotions and the ability to learn which begs the question; what techniques and activities are available to you, the parent, to use emotion to improve learning and children’s capabilities for when it is time for lessons at school?

If you are feeling positive about a life experience, if it was enjoyable and made you happy; you will want more of it, if it was painful, laborious, or truly dull you will want less.

In addition researchers say that really positive emotions about your learning enable you to make maps in your brain, arrange this learning better, and make you better able to remember it.

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Primary education and teaching Public speaking – Sir Jim Rose to the rescue in the UK

Sir Jim Rose’s April 2009 published report for the government on the overhaul of the primary education curriculum and children’s education highlights the importance of communication

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A focus of the report is on the ability to’ ‘talk’ and how primary schools should address this.

This aspect of education is hugely important and of related and massive importance is the ability in later life to take this talk into the public arena.

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