“Summer slip” is a widespread, informal expression that causes parents and instructors to worry about their students’ development and retention over the two months of summer vacation. This notion of pupils “regressing” from the level they attained after the school year while at home during the summer is anchored in the developmental reality of our young students. Practice is necessary to transform newly acquired abilities into familiar, useable skills and habits. From September through June, kids participate in supportive literacy activities at home and school. Still, they must continue reading during the summer, at the very least, to maintain their development. So why is summer reading so advantageous to your children?
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5 Reasons Why it’s Important to Filter Student’s Web Searches
Schools have special needs for content screening. You can limit access to certain websites, but you also are able to block access on devices that you control and those you do not. Additionally, with the growth of remote learning, the gadgets you own often leave the premises, complicating security.
5 Ways to Keep Kids Learning During the Summer
School is out for summer, but that doesn’t mean your children should stop learning. Informal learning both indoors and out over the summer months can keep your children from experiencing what teachers call the “Summer Slide” or brain drain.
10 Fun Learning Activities That Boost Cognitive Development
As a parent, you want to ensure that your child is getting the best possible education. This includes helping them boost their cognitive development. There are many fun learning activities that you can do with your child to help them learn and grow. The following are 10 of the best exercises for young learners.
Fresh Out of College? Get Practical PMP Experience for Your CV
Project Management abilities incorporate a mix of hard and soft abilities to dissect project performance, oversee assets, lead project groups and report progress and results. Project the executive’s abilities on your resume exhibit your capacity to dissect, plan, focus on, and complete undertakings. Contingent upon your schooling level, you want to have spent either 4,500 or 7,500 hours driving and coordinating ventures.
Why Extracurricular Activities Are Important for Your Child
Children go to school to acquire new knowledge and, ultimately, achieve academic success. All of this is supposed to lead to choosing an appropriate career and thriving in every way. But to grow into stable, confident adults, they need to also have the chance to learn outside the standard framework of an educational curriculum. Extracurricular activities are vital for children’s development, and participating in them regularly can help kids cope with stress, strengthen their social relationships, develop their personalities, and improve academic skills. Let’s dive deeper into these benefits.
Virtual Teaching: How To Share Resources With Your Students
With the pandemic affecting everyone’s everyday lives, virtual learning has become the norm for a lot of students, parents, and teachers. Many tutors and teachers wonder how they can make the most of the online world to make learning fun and effective. The same goes for music learning and the teaching of music. It might be quite a change for some, but there are still ways to keep each other inspired. In this article, we will be looking at several ways in which you, as teachers, are able to share various resources with your students virtually, so that they receive the same level of learning as they would within your classroom. But most importantly, these digital tools can help us maintain our love for learning and music.
Why Your Children Should Learn a Musical Instrument
According to a study from Northwestern University published by TIME, kids need to be engaged in learning about music and directly participate in playing instruments instead of simply listening to music. The study indicates that even for highly engaged studies, small periods of direct engagement in playing a musical instrument enhance class participation and strengthen the brain’s functions. Music training is extremely beneficial for children of all ages, according to the director of Northwestern University’s Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory Nina Kraus.
Teaching English Online from Home for Parents
In the last two years, the whole world has learned to adapt to new situations and face unexpected obstacles with creativity and ingenuity. Education is one of the industries that has had to be particularly quick and efficient with its changes, with the help of modern technology. It is because of this, perhaps, that many parents have decided to have the best of both worlds and to bring up their children while working from home (WFH) and taking full control of their lives by being their own bosses.
How to Support Your Child Struggling with Remote Classes
One of the most challenging aspects of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is that millions of students have been forced out of the classroom and into the online space. While this has been an easy transition for some students, other kids have struggled with this type of learning model. Here are five ways that you can support your child if they are struggling with virtual learning.