Contents:
- Medical Video: Helping your kids succeed in school
- 1. Get to know the teachers
- 2. Visit school
- 3. Create an atmosphere and place that supports learning and making homework
- 4. Make sure your child goes to school in a condition ready to learn
- 5. Embed the ability to manage time
- 6. Teach study skills
- 7. Know the rules of the school
- 8. Get involved in school activities
- 9. Monitor attendance at school
- 10. Take time to talk about school
Medical Video: Helping your kids succeed in school
Parental support is the most important thing in helping adolescents to go through periods in junior high school (SMP). But along with their desire to be more independent, sometimes it is rather difficult for parents to know when it's time to get involved directly and when to support it from behind the screen.
The following are 10 ways to help your child progress during junior high school.
1. Get to know the teachers
Your teenagers can perform better if their parents are involved in their academic lives. Attending school events is a good way to see how your child's school is, also getting to know the teacher. You can also meet with the homeroom teacher to discuss school programs and rules, as well as various choices parents and guardians need to know about.
Attending teacher and student meetings is a great way to keep informed of school. In many schools, the teacher will usually only call the parents when there is a child's behavior problem or if the value drops, but don't hesitate to make an appointment with the teacher and meet to discuss your child's academic development, or special needs.
Remember that parents or guardians have the right to meet with teachers, principals, or other staff as long as the child is still registered as a student at the school.
2. Visit school
Knowing lay out and the layout of the school building can help you connect with your child while talking about his day at school. Find out where the class is, UKS, canteen, gym, field, playground, hall and teacher's room, so you can imagine the world of your child when he is telling a story.
Many teachers now have special websites that include homework details, exam dates, and class events and trips. Or maybe this is listed on your child's school website. If yes, you can use the website to always beupdate with things that happen at school.
3. Create an atmosphere and place that supports learning and making homework
During middle school, homework (PR) will be more than during elementary school, and usually takes up to 2 hours every night to do it.
The most important way to help your child is to ensure that he has a quiet, neat, comfortable and uninterrupted place, specifically for studying and doing homework. Without interference means there is no telephone, television, or things that are not related to the homework every night. Make sure you check it regularly to make sure it isn't distracted by anything else.
Accompany when he does homework, while you do other things. Always remind him to do homework according to the schedule.
Encourage your child to always ask for your help when he feels difficult. Many teachers are also available to provide additional assistance after school hours, and you can use it.
4. Make sure your child goes to school in a condition ready to learn
A nutritious breakfast helps your child to be ready to study all day. Generally, children who are diligent in breakfast have more energy and will do better activities in school. Children who eat breakfast are also rarely absent and rarely enter UKS with stomach problems related to hunger.
You can help improve children's concentration and memory by providing a breakfast that is rich in nuts, fiber, protein, and low sugar. If your child does not have time to have breakfast at home, bring it in the form of milk, beans, yogurt and bread with peanut butter or banana sandwiches.
Teenagers need about 8.5 to 9.5 hours of sleep each night while pre-adolescents (ages 12-14) even need at least 10 hours of sleep each night so they are alert and ready to study all day. However, the very early hours of schooling, plus homework, extracurricular activities, and hanging out with friends made many teenagers experience problems with lack of sleep. The effect, it will be difficult to concentrate, short-term memory decreases, and the response is slow.
5. Embed the ability to manage time
No person is born with time management skills. This is skill which must be learned and practiced. Time management is one of the most important things for middle school students, because this is the first time he has undergone many new subjects with different teachers, and his extracurricular activities are much busier than when he was in elementary school. As a parent or guardian, you can help by teaching time management.
Teach your child how to organize lesson notes, class schedules, and schedule other activities in a binder and special calendar. Don't forget to also include a schedule for other activities that have nothing to do with school, so he can set his daily schedule and adjust his priorities.
6. Teach study skills
One of the challenges for middle school students is that he has to adjust to homework and test preparation from various teachers and subjects, which could be all for the same day. Make sure you and your child know when the exam is scheduled, and make sure he has enough time to study before each exam. When there are many tests on the same day, help him make the calendar learn from afar so that your child does not need to learn as much as one night.
Remind your child to take notes in class, and review the notes when he is home.
You can help him review lessons at home with a number of techniques, such as submitting tests in the form of simple questions, or doing exercises for the exam. The more information is processed by the brain (through writing, reading, speech, hearing) the more information will be remembered. Repeating words, rereading books hard, rewriting notes, or describing that information to others can help your child's brain remember data.
In terms of mathematics and exact science, practicing is the most effective way to improve understanding. You can even find sources of practice questions on the internet that your child can do.
But always remember, a good night's sleep is better than studying overnight. Research shows that students who sacrifice their sleep to study tend to have more difficulties the next day.
7. Know the rules of the school
All schools have rules and consequences regarding the behavior of their students. Schools usually include disciplinary policies (sometimes called school ethics codes) in student handbooks. This rule includes student manners, how to dress, use of electronic equipment, and the consequences that must be faced if violating the rules.
This policy can also include rules and sanctions for attendance, vandalism, cheating, fighting and carrying weapons. Many schools have specific regulations regarding bullying. It's good if you know the school definition about bullying, consequently, victim support, and action reporting procedures bullying.
It is very important for your child to know what is and cannot be done at school, so you must support the consequences that the school gives when your child commits a violation. It will be easier for students if the rules at school are not much different from the rules applied at home. It is important to note that educators can call law enforcement officials to schools for serious violations and their consequences depending on the age of the student.
8. Get involved in school activities
Volunteering at your child's school program is the right way to show that you are interested in their education.
But remember, some middle school kids may be happy when their parents attend school or at school events, and some may feel ashamed. Understand their cues to determine how much the interaction is useful for you and your child, and whether you will volunteer for school activities or not. Explain that you don't mean to spy on him, you just try to help him at school.
9. Monitor attendance at school
Your teenager should rest at home when he has fever, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, or other diseases that make it impossible to move. But besides that, it is very important for them to come to school every day, because catching up on class, project, exam, and homework assignments is more difficult and will affect the learning process.
If the child seems often reasoned not to go to school, there may be other reasons he did not tell, for example bullying, difficult tasks, low grades, social problems, problems with friends, or problems with the teacher. Talk about this with him to find out the cause and find a solution.
Children who are often late for school may also have problems sleeping less. Keeping your teenager with a regular sleep schedule can help him avoid sleepiness in school and reduce the delay.
For adolescents who have chronic health problems, teachers will work with families and limit their duties so they can adjust.
10. Take time to talk about school
Establishing relationships with children when they grow up and want to be independent can be a challenge for parents, but this is very important. Indeed, activities at school, new hobbies, social life, maybe even romance is a top priority for most high school students, parents and guardians remain their place of anchor that always provides love, guidance and support.
Try to talk to him every day, so you can find out what happened at school and in his life. When your child knows that you are interested in what is happening in their academic life, they will learn more seriously.
Because communication is a two-way path, the way you talk and hear can influence how you hear and respond to you. It is very important for you to listen carefully, maintain eye contact, and avoid doing other things when the child is talking. Make sure you ask the question the answer is not just "yes" or "no".
In addition to dinner time or sarapn, the right time to talk is during the trip to school (if you take him to school) or when doing household activities with children, such as shopping.
When your child knows that they can talk openly with their parents, the challenges at school can be more easily overcome.
